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energyNOW! Interview: U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

April 28, 2011 by Silvio Marcacci
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energyNOW! recently interviewed U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, on several national energy policy issues. [read more]

Sen. Bingaman On Gasoline Prices: “We become less vulnerable by using less oil”

March 23, 2011 by Joseph Romm
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BINGAMAN:  The starting point for the [Senate briefing by oil experts] was one fundamental truth: the primary driver of the price for gasoline at the pump is the price of crude oil.  This chart [above] was one of the key ones used by EIA Administrator Newell.  It shows the price trends since 2005 for gasoline (in... [read more]

How the Senate can fix cost containment in the climate bill with ‘price collar plus’

August 5, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The climate and clean energy bill that narrowly passed the House has three problems related to cost containment (CC) that the Senate should — and I expect will — address: Fence-sitting Senators (and industries) worry that its CC provisions aren’t hard-nosed and specific enough to protect the public and businesses from carbon prices... [read more]

U.S. Business Leaders Urge America to Get Serious about the Clean Energy Race

August 5, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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By Leigh Ewbank, originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteIn Monday's Washington Post, prominent U.S. business leaders John Doerr (from Kleiner Perkins, pictured left) and Jeff Immelt (CEO of GE) joined the growing chorus calling on the nation's leaders to prepare America for the clean-energy race. They warn that the U.S. is... [read more]

Boxer planning Sept. 8 rollout for climate bill

July 16, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) plans to unveil a major global warming bill immediately after Congress returns from the August recess, she said today…. Boxer predicted she would have at least one Republican co-sponsor on her bill, though she would not name names. So E&E News PM (subs. req’d)... [read more]