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Tar sands: Still dirty after all these years

September 22, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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X-axis is the range of potential resource in billions of barrels. Y-axis is grams of Carbon per MegaJoule of final fuel. On Sunday, I wrote about how Lindsey Graham had drunk the tar sands Kool-Aid: “It is less carbon intensive than oil we find in California,” extraction “really blends in with the natural habitat.” David Sands of... [read more]

Lindsey Graham says, “yeah,” there’s a chance for climate to move forward this year - On the bipartisan bill he wrote with Kerry and Lieberman: "I really believe in this product. I think it's a damn good solution."

April 29, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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WashPost’s Ezra Klein has posted an interview with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about the immigration and climate bills.  Since my Monday post, it’s been hard to tell whether the Senator has been principled or petulant — or perhaps a bit of both. I’ll excerpt the parts of his interview with Klein about the climate bill and you can... [read more]

Chait and Klein: Lindsey Graham is Right - Senate staffer: Graham's been "completely genuine" in bipartisan negotiations for climate and clean energy jobs bill

April 26, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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If email, comments on CP, and some eco-bloggers are to be believed, conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has been planning to walk on the climate bill for a long time — perhaps, nefariously, from the very beginning!  And I certainly understand where that sentiment is coming from, given that the GOP strategy on health care and... [read more]

Update: Graham Withdraws Support for Climate Legislation

April 24, 2010 by Matt Dernoga
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Following up on the earlier news on Graham’s threat, he has officially withdrawn his support for climate legislation.  This after the Democrats indicated they would prioritize immigration reform over climate legislation. “The move forced the other two authors of the bill,Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman(I-... [read more]

Breaking: Sen. Graham threatens to halt work on climate and energy bill over immigration plans

April 24, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to abandon his effort to push a climate and energy bill Saturday, saying he will only continue if Democratic leaders promise to relinquish plans to bring up immigration legislation first. Graham’s departure, if he follows through on his ultimatum, would likely doom any chance of passing a... [read more]

Sen. Lindsey Graham Says Using Reconciliation for Health Care Threatens Climate Bill

March 15, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Sunday that if Democrats employ the parliamentary procedure known as reconciliation to push the health care bill through, all major legislation currently being considered by the Senate would be threatened, including a climate bill that the Republican Graham has been working with Senate... [read more]

Chu: Proposed renewable standard is too weak

February 21, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Saturday that major Capitol Hill renewable electricity proposals would not prompt additional generation from sources like wind and solar power beyond the increases expected under existing programs. The Hill report is not really big new.  I wrote back in May that EIA projects wind at 5% of U.S.... [read more]

World Economic Forum, Lindsey Graham: "Every day that we delay trying to find a price for carbon is a day that China uses to dominate the green economy.”

January 31, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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It is shaping up to be the Great Game of the 21st century.  To top officials and business executives here at the World Economic Forum, Topic A this year was the race to develop greener, cleaner technology….  it is a battle for potentially millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in export revenues. “Six months ago my biggest... [read more]

Is there going to be a bipartisan climate, energy security, clean air and clean energy jobs bill this year?

January 27, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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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]

Cap-and-trade = Mark Twain?

January 27, 2010 by John Whitehead
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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]

“Election energizes climate bill talks” - Graham, Kerry, Lieberman meet with Rahm Emanuel -- and then Chamber of Commerce, whose VP of Gov't Affairs said, “generally we were in synch"!

January 24, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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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]

Graham won’t bow to “political push back”: “I have come to conclude that greenhouse gases and carbon pollution [are] not a good thing.”

January 7, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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When we last left Lindsey Graham, the conservative Senator from South Carolina was being censured again (!) by a SC county party for trying to create clean energy jobs in the state, clean its air and reduce the nearly $1 billion a day we ship overseas to buy oil, “some of which finds its way to extremist or terrorist organizations.”... [read more]

Graham says Obama has his back on climate bill

December 4, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Sen. Lindsey Graham may be under fire from conservatives back home in South Carolina. But the Republican got a personal assurance from President Obama yesterday that the White House is supporting his efforts to craft a sweeping Senate energy and global warming bill. “The president told me personally he was very open, that nuclear power... [read more]

WashPost gets climate bill politics story backwards, buries the big news: Graham and Kerry are in talks with White House “to discuss a possible compromise.”

November 2, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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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]

Republicans for Enviromental Protection run pro-Graham ad

October 30, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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A major denier group has started running falsehood-filled ads going after Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the conservative gamechanger who just made a climate bill likely.  As Media Matters explains in their ad fact check: Using false oil industry talking points, the Big Oil funded American Energy Alliance produced an ad attacking Sen.... [read more]