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Senators Push Last Ditch Effort to Spur Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing

October 4, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Just before lawmakers left Washington on Friday to focus full time on the November elections, Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) introduced a package of tax incentives intended to support domestic clean energy manufacturing as investment from temporary stimulus measures expire. (E&E News Subs. Req.) The bipartisan... [read more]

RES: Symbolism or Substance?

September 28, 2010 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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Amongst those who have fought for energy reform, the announcement that Senators Jeff Bingaman (D- N.M.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) are pursuing a stand-alone renewable energy standard (RES) should be cause for both cautious celebration and deep concern. [read more]

BREAKING: Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Renewable Electricity Standard

September 22, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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The Renewable Electricity Promotion Act would require U.S. to get 15% of electricity from renewable sources by 2021A bipartisan group of Senators Bingaman (D-NM), Brownback (R-KS), Dorgan (D-ND), Collins (R-ME), Udall (D-NM), and Udall (D-CO) introduced a 15% by 2021 renewable electricity standard (RES) bill. The standalone Renewable... [read more]

How Can America Secure Clean Energy Jobs?

September 20, 2010 by Teryn Norris
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As China continues advancing in the clean energy race, a growing number of policymakers and commentators are decrying the lack of U.S. federal policies to scale the nation’s clean energy industry to secure jobs, manufacturing capacity, and even private research and development. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chairman of the Senate Energy... [read more]

US Senate May Consider Federal Renewable Energy Standard

September 20, 2010 by Osha Davidson
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Is this RES for real? It’s baaack. Maybe. Tomorrow at 2:30 PM EDT, a federal Renewable Energy Standard (RES) — which has been pronounced dead and then revived many times in the past year — will get another jolt of Senate CPR, when a bipartisan group of Senators unveils a new attempt at establishing a minimum amount of electricity that... [read more]

NYT: ‘Energy-only’ bill in Senate would be tough sell

April 27, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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If Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) bolts the Senate climate coalition, it must be time to turn to the “energy only” bill that centrist Democrats have been promoting as a bipartisan alternative to a climate bill, right? Not so fast…. It is almost as difficult to add up 60 votes in the Senate for the energy-only approach as it is to find 60... [read more]

Bingaman: Senate Consensus on Climate, Energy; Uncertainty About Path

March 17, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) talks with Clean Skies News about how the Energy Committee is waiting for decisions from Harry Reid on how to move ahead with energy and climate legislation issues, including proceeding with expansion of transmission and setting a renewable electricity standard. Click here to view the embedded video... [read more]

Bingaman Promises a Bill Requiring The Department of Energy To Develop and License Two Modular Reactor Designs

November 22, 2009 by Rod Adams
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On November 16, 2009, at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) gave a speech titled Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World that included the following intriguing paragraph:“I plan to introduce a second bill, to complement Senator Udall’s bill. My new bill would require the Secretary of Energy... [read more]

Small reactors get Senate support

November 1, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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Two leading senators sign on with Colorado Sen. Mark Udall Colorado Senator Mark Udall, (right) has introduced a bill to authorize federal R&D for small, modular reactors. Udall said in a speech on the Senate floor he believes nuclear energy is an important part of the nation's response to global warming. "Given the economic,... [read more]