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Aviation is a major contributor to global warming with its pollution projected to grow significantly if left uncontrolled. Next week Secretary Kerry has the chance to help advance an international agreement to cut aviation pollution.[read more]

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A huge blow to the anti-Keystone XL pipeline crusade occurred earlier this month when the State Department released a “Draft Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement.”[read more]

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The State Department issued an recklessly insufficient environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline on Friday, despite the President’s tough talk on confronting climate change.[read more]

In the first serious indication Obama will focus on climate change in his second term, media outlets report the President will nominate Senator John Kerry (D-MA) to be Secretary of State.Kerry is one of the Senate’s leading climate hawks who has said he believes that climate change is the “biggest long term threat” to national security....[read more]

After a new report showed 2010 was tied for the hottest year on record, several key members within the U.S. Democratic party stated it was time for the country to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation. In its latest report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that global temperatures last year...[read more]

Today, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) delivered a major speech in Washington that may be remembered as one of the most important political responses to the Tucson shooting and as a powerful new post-partisan vision for restoring American vitality and leadership in the 21st century. As Ezra Klein of Washington Post noted, “Frankly, it’s the...[read more]

The foreboding of the monstrous Gulf oil spill was accompanied this week by the opportune deeds of Washington lawmakers, policy makers, and activists hard at work to fashion a political response, including the Senate introduction of a comprehensive climate and energy bill. The new proposal was generally applauded for its expansive...[read more]

I’m strategizing and planning with the environmental community this morning, but wanted to emphasize something – and I thought of it this morning listening to my morning radio:  If you’ve ever gotten caught up in the conventional wisdom of Washington that says no big change can happen, and politicians will always find the easy...[read more]

According to AP reporter Frederic J. Frommer, as Senate sponsors of a climate bill prepare to unveil their legislation, a coalition of governors from 29 states wants the federal government to take steps to boost wind energy. The bipartisan Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition made their recommendations in a report to Congress and the White...[read more]

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., told Americans last week to “get angry” about climate and clean energy legislation. Similarly, in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, we heard that he was angry and that American citizens are angry, too. The anger revolves around jobs. But Obama talked about more than just jobs. He reiterated...[read more]

I wouldn’t want to mislead readers into thinking that it will be easy to get a climate bill this year.  Fundamentally, the politicians simply don’t understand the urgency on the climate science side, and they don’t understand it is a winning political issue with both progressives and independents in every single poll — unlike, say...[read more]

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham—the R in the D/R/I Senate’s tripartisan climate bill sandwich known as Kerry, Graham and Lieberman—is declaring the death of cap and trade in this New York Times article: “Realistically, the cap-and-trade bills in the House and the Senate are going nowhere,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of...[read more]

Seeking to resuscitate stalled global warming legislation in Washington’s suddenly changed political climate, a bipartisan group of senators including John Kerry of Massachusetts has been conducting private talks this week with the White House and a key business group over an array of concessions sought by Republicans. The election of...[read more]

This is a guest post by American Progress’s Tina Ramos, Special Assistant for Energy Policy. Today Senator John Kerry (D-MA) delivered a major address at COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, calling on global leaders to stop pointing fingers and acknowledge that  “no country individually, and none of...[read more]

The big climate bill story of the last few weeks is the breakthrough Senate climate partnership between Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Kerry (D-MA).  The result — E&E News’s latest analysis shows, “At least 67 senators are in play” on climate bill. This isn’t to say Senate passage will be easy, but I think it is now likely,...[read more]