U.S. Senate Climate Bill Dies, And the Blame Game Starts in Washington
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| Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate have abandoned efforts to pass legislation that would have put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, instead backing a watered-down energy bill that would spur development of natural gas-powered vehicles and would ... |
Congress Punts on Clean Energy Standards, Again
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 | Federal law that would require utilities to generate a portion of their power from renewable sources has been put on the backburner until fall 2010 at the earliest, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) conceded on Thursday. Industry groups wer ... |
What If McCain Had Been President? And Other Climate What-Ifs
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 | Did a climate bill ever have a chance to get through Congress? Could anything have saved it? Politico 's Darren Samuelsohn has a piece today about the predictable round of recriminations among environmentalists and Democrats after Harry Reid basical ... |
The 7 Things That Killed the Climate Bill
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 | Image via Inhabitat The news that reverberated around the web yesterday was hardly unexpected -- the climate bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally announced was officially dead , was on its way out for a long time. But that doesn't m ... |
The Consequences of Inaction on Climate Change
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| What a long, hard road it has been getting Congress to pass a strong climate and energy bill. I regret to say that the news is not especially good, though the door is not yet completely closed. After weeks of intense negotiations among EDF and other ... |
Renewable Industry Critical of Reid Energy Bill
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| Facing opposition from the entire Republican Senate Delegation, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has revealed plans to put comprehensive energy legislation, including cap and trade and renewable portfolio standard provisions, on hold, choosing instead to in ... |
How the EPA and States Can Save Climate Policy
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 | The Senate has all but given up on passing a climate bill. So where does that leave us? Yesterday, I noted on Twitter that the action is going to shift to the states and federal agencies. Remember, the EPA is obligated to regulate greenhouse gases u ... |
Climate Bill Failure: "There's No Silver Lining To This Cloud"
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| As Jon noted, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has officially announced that there will be no climate bill this year. But Jon's post doesn't fully... ... |
On the death of the climate bill
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| by David Roberts. As Jon noted , Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has officially announced that there will be no climate bill this year. But Jon’s post doesn’t fully convey the extent of the capitulation. What’s happened is total and complete surre ... |
The climate bill’s dead. Really dead
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| by Jonathan Hiskes. The climate bill’s dead . Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) conceded today that he doesn’t have the 60 votes necessary this year to pass a carbon cap, even a watered-down, scaled-back one. So the hope is that next year w ... |
State and EPA climate action become key as Senate gives up
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 | by Jonathan Hiskes. The Senate on Thursday officially gave up on trying to pass a climate bill in the foreseeable future—so what’s plan B? Leadership from states and federal agencies. A mishmash of state plans and existing laws doesn’t sound like mu ... |
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
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| Reducing CO2 emissions from power generation with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). ... |
Senate Obstructionism Leads to Abject Failure on Energy and Climate
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| A minority of Senators has blocked the United States Senate from protecting our children’s and our country’s future. Because of their denial and obstructionism, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that the Senate cannot take up comprehensive ... |
Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/23/2010
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 | Photo credit tiffa130 And here are this week’s Green Numbers: Khosla-Backed Calera Scoops Up $19M for Carbon Recycling Calera Corp., a startup working to capture emissions from industrial flues and recycle it into pavement and building materials, ha ... |
Codexis creates genetically modified enzyme to capture CO2 from flue gases
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 | Eco Factor: Cost-effective technology to capture CO2 from power plant emissions. Conventional ways to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks of coal plants nearly doubles the price of electricity produced. This fact hinders the adoption of high-tec ... |
What climate bill?
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| It's 2nd down and about 10 yards to go, and Harry Reid decided he might as well punt. With today's news that any upcoming energy bill won't include climate legislation or even a renewable portfolio standard , cleantech entrepreneurs and investors ar ... |
Businesses Urge Reid, Senate to Pass Energy Efficiency Standard
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 | In a letter sent to Sen. Harry Reid today, a group of 57 businesses, trade associations and environmental organizations including Best Buy, eBay, Gap Inc, and Johnson Controls called on the Senate to pass an Energy Efficiency Resource Standard for u ... |
National Research Council Report Underscores the Urgency of CO2 Emmisions Reductions
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| WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Congress wrangles over climate legislation in the nation’s capitol, a new report by the National Research Council suggests that decisions made now about cutting atmospheric carbon dioxide may lock in climate changes for centuri ... |
