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Tea Party's Next Target: The Climate Bill

Mother Jones | Stephanie Mencimer | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Activists, Tea Party Conservatives, Tea Party Global Warming, Tea Party Cap-and-Trade, Republicans Climate Change, Tea Party Climate Change, Tea Party Climate Bill, Gop Climate Change, Cap-and-Trade, Climate Change, Tea Party Protest, Climate Bill, Tea Party, Global Warming, Politics News

The Tea Party movement earned its stripes at town hall protests this summer by claiming that Democratic health care reform efforts would result in def...

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Cap And Trade: Get The Lowdown

Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Co2, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Pollution, Transparency, Green News

Recent surveys about public perceptions of climate change and knowledge of cap-and-trade in the United States show that a lot of people out there have...

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Boxer Avoids The Baucus Trap

Bill Scher | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Cap and Trade, Kerry-Boxer, Climate, Cejapa, Green News
Bill Scher

There's no way her bill will become law without further changes, but Boxer did exactly what needed to be done to get any bill passed.

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Al Gore Explains How Call For Climate Change Action Is Similar To Civil Rights Movement (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Clean Energy, An Inconvenient Truth, Coal, Renewable Resources, Solar Energy, Katie Couric, Fossil Fuels, Water Pollution, Health, Climate Change, Oil, Al Gore, Air Pollution, Un, Copenhagen, Climate Change Bill, Our Choice, Green News

The push for government action on climate change is like the US civil rights movement, according to former Vice President Al Gore. Both causes depende...

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Will Boxer, Pelosi, and Waxman Pre-empt Their Own State?

Mike Sandler | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: AB 32, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Boxer-Kerry, Green News
Mike Sandler

The climate change bill pre-empts California's ability to set a tighter cap on greenhouse gas emissions. Why have Boxer, Pelosi, and Waxman traded away their own state's special status?

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President Obama After One Year

Dean Baker | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, President Obama, Cap and Trade, Finance, Employee Free Choice Act, Progressives, Alan Greenspan, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dean Baker

A year after President Obama's election, progressives can say that we got pretty much what we had a right to expect: a centrist agenda in office.

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The Race Is On for Clean Energy

Gene Karpinski | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer, Economic Stimulus Package, Green Jobs, John Kerry, Steven Chu, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Climate Change, Clean Energy, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Green Energy, US Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Green News
Gene Karpinski

As President Obama has said many times: the nation that leads in the creation of a clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy.

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Cap and Trade, Meet the Opposition

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Kerry-Boxer, Timberland, Waxman-Markey, Green News
Jeffrey B. Swartz

Truth is, if I could wave a wand I'd have every government on earth impose a straightforward tax on carbon emissions--less bureaucracy, less confusion--but I am a boot maker, not a wand waver.

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CNN Poll Shows Strong Support For "Cap And Trade" Legislation

Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy Jobs, Cap and Trade, CNN Cap and Trade Poll, Clean Energy Jobs Bill, Kerry-Boxer Bill, Climate Change, Cap and Trade Poll, Boxer-Kerry, Green News

A new poll released Tuesday by CNN reveals strong support for the "Cap and Trade" legislation proposed by Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer, with ...

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Confusion in the Senate Regarding Allowance Allocation

Robert Stavins | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, Efficiency, Waxman-Markey Legislation, U.S. Senate, Environmental Politics, Distributional Analysis, Cap-and-Trade, Kerry-Boxer Legislation, Cost-Effectiveness, U.S. House of Representatives, Global Climate Policy, Green News
Robert Stavins

The new debate over climate change is repeating the confusion that was prevalent in the press about the allowance allocation in the Waxman-Markey legislation in the House of Representatives.

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Gillibrand: Cap And Trade Could Benefit New York

wsj.com | KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Cap and Trade, Unemployment, New York Cap and Trade, Wall Street, New York Economy, Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator Gillibrand, New York News

Over the past year, the economic crisis has devastated the financial services industry that fueled New York's boom years. The ripple effect from Wall ...

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Who's Got a Scorecard?

Carl Pope | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Bill, Cap-and-Trade, Global Warming, Green News
Carl Pope

Will the Senate really kill climate legislation if, at the end of the day, the typical state is treated as "average"? My gut tells me that the odds of getting something good done just got better.

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Nobel Prize Recognizes Link Between Peace and Climate Action

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Legislation, Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore, Copenhagen 2009, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Obama Nobel, Green News
Frances Beinecke

After eight costly years of inaction, the United States has begun to lead. Since taking office, Obama has moved quickly to put climate change near the top of his agenda.

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Religious Groups Take Sides On Climate Change Bill

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, Lobbyblog, Cap-and-Trade, Business News

The Los Angeles Times reports that religious groups are the latest to lobby for the passage of sweeping climate change legislation. A group called Fa...

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Tell Your Senators to Save Our National Parks From Global Warming

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Wyoming, Saguaro, Wildlands, Biogems, Wildlife, Cap and Trade, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Teddy Roosevelt, Rocky Mountains, Grand Tetons, Sudden Aspen Decline, Western Us, John Muir, Climate Change, Waxman-Markey, Glacier National Park, Climate Legislation, Joshua Tree, Ken Burns, Global Warming, National Parks, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Glacier National Park could lose all its glaciers, Joshua Tree National Park all its Joshua trees and Saguaro National Park all its saguaros, according to a new report on climate change from NRDC.

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20 GOP Politicians Repeat $1,761 Clean Energy Bill Lie

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Ed Markey, Waxman-Markey, Senator Murkowski, Senator Inhofe, John Boehner, Senator Wicker, Green, League of Conservation Voters, Joel Pollack, Deniers, Mike Pence, Cbs, Cynthia Lummis, Cap and Trade, Politifact, Nrcc, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Politics News, Wonk Room, Congressional Budget Office, Washington Post, Environmental Defense, John Culberson, Senator Alexander, Oregon GOP, Fred Upton, Represenative Markey, Politics, Roy Blunt, Clean Energy, Mitt Romney, Global Warming, National Republican Congressional Committee, Blaine Leutkemeyer, Politico, Value Voters Summit, Mike Bearn, Politics News
Josh Nelson

For the past few weeks Republicans have latched onto the $1,761 energy tax lie to oppose clean energy legislation.

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Cap-and-Trade Versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy

Robert Stavins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, New Source Review, Carbon Tax, National Journal, Endangerment Finding, Regulation, Obama Administration, Hamilton Project, Global Climate Policy, Japan, CAFE Standards, Sulfur Dioxide, Cap-and-Trade, Environmental Politics, Ozone Depleting Substances, RECLAIM Program, Leaded Gasoline, Waxman-Markey, Green News
Robert Stavins

One of the key merits of the cap-and-trade approach is that the program can provide cost-effectiveness, while achieving meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions levels.

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Daily Show Hits Democrats For Giving Polluters Free Pass On Cap-And-Trade (VIDEO)

Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Video, Daily Show, Climate Change, Jon Stewart, Democrats, Global Warming, Green News

The Daily Show criticized the cap-and-trade bill put forth by the Democrats because it completely appeases the companies who created the problem in th...

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No Climate Change Bill This Year, Says Obama Adviser

The Associated Press | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, House, Waxman Markey Bill, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Talks, Obama, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carol Browner, Waxman-Markey, Emissions, Senate, Climate Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP)- President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "...

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9/12 Movement: "Send Congress A Pink Slip"

The Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 09.29.2009 | Impact

Read More: Cap and Trade, 9/12 Movement, Hate Crimes, Congress, World Net Daily, 9/12, Public Option, Health Care Public Option, Impact News

The 9/12 movement showed up in large numbers (somewhere between 12 and 80 squillion, I'm told), but Congress, they say, still has not received the mem...

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Exelon Quits Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Change Legislation

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Lobbyblog, Nuclear Power, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business News

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has lost another member because of its opposition to climate change legislation, reports the Washington Post. The natio...

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Democracy and Global Warming

Jennifer Schneider | Posted 09.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Cap and Trade, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Climate Change, Science-Policy, WorldWide Views, Decarbonization, Global Warming, Colorado School of Mines., Denver News
Jennifer Schneider

On Saturday, 100 citizens from various ethnic, socioeconomic and political backgrounds are scheduled to gather at the School of Mines. They will be voting on climate resolutions throughout the day.

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The G20, Climate Talks, and Trade Measures: Keeping Jobs in America

Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Labor, Green Jobs, Climate Week Nyc, Free Trade, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing, g20, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Won't new climate legislation hurt American industry? Won't it send jobs overseas? The answer is no, it won't.

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New Rule: If America Can't Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle

Bill Maher | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, Wall Street, Ondemand, Jon Cryer, Cap-and-Trade, Washington, Max Baucus, Youtube, Medicare, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ground Zero, Fdr, Bill Maher New Rule, Real Time With Bill Maher, Bill Maher, Comedy News
Bill Maher

If America can't get its act together, it must lose the bald eagle as our symbol and replace it with the YouTube video of the puppy that can't get up. As long as we're pathetic, we might as well act like it's cute.

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A Goal for Copenhagen: Keep the Focus on Enforcement

Peter Lehner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Copenhagen, Fundecor, Governance, Nicaragua, Rainforest, Cap and Trade, Carbon Emissions, Costa Rica, Green News
Peter Lehner

There's no silver bullet that can resolve the carbon emissions problem in Copenhagen, but there are steps that can be taken to help developing nations strengthen their institutions and, with that, enforcement.

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