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Collection: Breakthrough Institute Analysis of Congressional Climate Bills

April 13, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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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-Markey "American... [read more]

Hansen calls climate change “predominant moral issue of the 21st century,” slams Congress, Cantwell-Collins

April 7, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The country’s top climatologist, NASA’s James Hansen, writes in HuffPost: The predominant moral issue of the 21st century, almost surely, will be climate change, comparable to Nazism faced by Churchill in the 20th century and slavery faced by Lincoln in the 19th century. Our fossil fuel addiction, if unabated, threatens our children... [read more]

Energy and Financial Interests Pushing Offsets in Senate Climate Bill

March 17, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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Polluting energy companies and giant financial firms are once again allying to advance international offsets that have the potential to render a carbon cap entirely non-binding. The Coalition for Emissions Reductions Projects (CERP), wrote to Senator Maria Cantwell earlier this month criticizing the CLEAR Act she co-sponsored with... [read more]

U.S. Senate may scrap Cap and Trade in exchange for Cap and Dividend

February 27, 2010 by ChrisSchultz
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I may have spoke too soon the other day. It seems that a few Republicans in the Senate are not only on board with Cap and Trade but could be willing to support a Cap and Dividend model as the centerpiece of the climate change legislation that the House of Representatives passed last year. I've been a fan of Cap and Dividend since I... [read more]

Analysis of Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Climate Bill: Full Breakthrough Institute Collection

February 26, 2010 by Breakthrough Institute
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For Breakthrough's analysis of the House's Waxman-Markey ACES climate bill, see here. For Breakthrough's analysis of the Senate's Kerry-Boxer CEJAPA climate bill, see here. This post summarizes the Breakthrough Institute's analysis of the Cantwell-Collins "Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal" Act (S.2877, known as CLEAR... [read more]

Misguided “cap and divide” bill by Cantwell and Collins is neither politically nor environmentally viable

February 1, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Climate politics can be very strange indeed.  Because cap-and-trade bills like Waxman-Markey are seen as having no chance of passing the Senate, some enviros appear to be shifting their support to bills that are politically even less attractive and environmentally even less adequate. The latest misguided missile is the Carbon... [read more]

A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 2: Structural Advantages

January 13, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute In Part 1 of our analysis of the new Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, we demonstrated how the bill fails to make the investments needed to jumpstart a competitive American clean energy economy and fund the technology innovation and deployment needed to affordably secure deep cuts in U.S.... [read more]

Cantwell-Collins: Want $100/month with Your Emissions Cuts?

December 29, 2009 by Scott Edward Anderson
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The Cantwell-Collins "cap-and-rebate" climate bill, known as the Carbon Limits and Energy for America's Renewal Act (CLEAR), proposes refunding 75 percent of all revenue collected back to U.S. residents in a monthly check of about $100 per family of four. Tim Hurst over at Ecopolitology has a good analysis of the bill proposed by... [read more]

New Senate Climate Bill Would Send You a Monthly Check

December 28, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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New Senate climate bill proposes a "cap and dividend" model. (Photo: seng1011) Cantwell-Collins ‘cap-and-rebate’ plan would refund 75% of all revenue collected back to U.S. residents in a monthly check of roughly $100 per family of four. Just one day after Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham... [read more]