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Collection: Breakthrough Institute Analysis of Congressional Climate Bills

April 13, 2010 by Breakthrough Inst...
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<!--break--> The Breakthrough Institute team works to publish quantitative analysis of Congressional climate and clean energy legislation, often working to publish a series of analyses "in real time" as the Congressional debate unfolds. Here is our collection of analysis of climate bills in the current Congress: House: Waxman-... [read more]

Reid: “I think if we do it right, the energy bill, the climate bill can be very, very job productive” — plans floor debate on bipartisan bill “sometime in the spring”

November 17, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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<!--break--> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) today confirmed that floor debate on a sweeping energy and global warming bill that will be sold to the American public in part as an economic stimulus measure will be held early next year. “We’re going to try to do that sometime in the spring,” Reid told reporters when asked... [read more]

Senate EPW Dems pass Kerry-Boxer out of Committee without any Republican participation

November 5, 2009 by Rebecca Lutzy
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<!--break--> For the past three days Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have waited for Republicans to come to the table to participate in the mark-up up of comprehensive climate and energy legislation.  This morning the wait was over and Democrats moved forward on their own to pass the legislation out... [read more]

Inhofe and Republicans are Right: Analysis of Climate Bills is Flawed

November 3, 2009 by A Siegel
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<!--break--> As part of the Republican theatrical obstructionism to moving forward with the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, involving staging a boycott of Committee hearings despite Senator Boxer appealing for bipartisan efforts to find solutions for serious problems. (All of this, of course, leading to a... [read more]

KPFA Radio: Former Sen. John Warner and WattHead's Jenkins Talk Climate Bill

October 30, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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<!--break--> I joined former Senator John Warner of Virginia on the KPFA Morning Show today to discuss Senate climate and energy legislation, the focus of hearings this week in the the Environment and Public Works Committee. (listen to the full interview below)Senator Warner, a rare Republican champion of climate action, was the co-... [read more]

Senate shocker: Second biggest U.S. coal producer believes in global warming and strong climate action

October 29, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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<!--break--> Ken Ward, Jr., the best journalist in West Virginia, has been following the landmark Senate climate and clean energy hearings at his blog, “Coal Tattoo:  Mining’s Mark on our World.”  I’m excerpting his latest piece. But then there was Preston Chiaro, (above) chief executive for energy and minerals at Rio Tinto... [read more]

My Plan for Dealing with Climate Change

October 28, 2009 by Senator Lamar Ale...
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<!--break--> This post is based on my opening remarks at the beginning of the hearings on the Boxer-Kerry Bill in the Committee on the Environment and Public Works on Tuesday, Oct. 27. I have no problem with the problem; my problem is with the proposed solution. The National Academies of Sciences of eleven industrialized countries,... [read more]

Kerry Confident Senate Will Vote on Climate Bill Before Copenhagen

October 28, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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<!--break--> Senator tells climate activists: “this is really when grassroots count.” Fresh off the first Senate hearing for the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, the bill’s co-author, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) said he was confident the Senate would be able to bring a bill to the floor for a full vote before the Copenhagen... [read more]

Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill's Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations

October 27, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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<!--break--> By Jesse Jenkins and Yael Borofsky, originally at the Breakthrough InstituteThe latest draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" would invest less than $10 billion of the bill's nearly $80 billion in annual cap and trade allowance revenue in clean energy technology, assuming EPA-projected... [read more]

The landmark Senate climate hearings: Day 1 debrief

October 27, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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<!--break--> The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works began its hearings today on the climate and clean energy bill.  I don’t think there was any big news.  Sen. Baucus (D-MT) and Sen. Voinovich (D-OH) were a tad more negative than I expected.  I’ve no doubt Baucus will support the final bill, but I... [read more]

Missing the Point on Energy and Jobs

October 27, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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<!--break--> Two emails I received yesterday delivered press releases from two organizations with very different agendas, both emphasizing the impact of energy on jobs. With US unemployment showing little response to the economic stimulus, the rebounding stock market, or the "green shoots" appearing in some sectors, it's... [read more]

Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown

October 26, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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<!--break--> Originally at the Breakthrough InstituteLate Friday night, Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee released a new draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" (S.1733), the first version of the legislation to detail how emissions allowances created by the bill will be divvied... [read more]