Waxman Markey

Better to Charge for Emissions Than Ban New Coal Plants

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Coal Power, China, Carbon Emissions, Waxman-Markey, Carbon Tariffs, Business News

Rather than banning the construction of new coal-fired power plants, America should tax domestic carbon emissions. Then we could enact carbon tariff on imports, and thereby level the playing field for our manufacturers.

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The 40-Day Pledge on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Markey, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Edward Markey, Earth Day, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Waxman-Markey, Green News

For forty years, we have fought against the polluters to create a safer, healthier planet. For the next forty days, we must continue the fight.

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Betting Smartly on the Smart Grid

Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011

With a complete makeover for the U.S. energy grid projected to cost $165 billion, it is imperative that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allocations are made judiciously.

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Waking America From the BP Nightmare

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

BP's spill safety response plans include references to protecting walruses, which have not called the Gulf of Mexico home for 3 million years. The American people deserve oil safety plans that are ironclad and not boilerplate.

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Climate and Energy Politics and the Mid-Term Elections

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Climate Legislation, Mid-Term Elections, Epa, Greenhouse Gasses, Clean Air Act, John Kerry, Lindsay Graham, Joe Lieberman, Waxman-Markey, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Green News

Because President Obama will be focusing on jobs and the economy between now and November, climate and energy legislation will only gain traction as part of an economic initiative to create jobs.

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Obama's Second Chance on the Predominant Moral Issue of This Century

Dr. James Hansen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Global Warming, Obama Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Waxman-Markey, China Climate Change, China Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Price, China, Green News

This is not the 17th century, when "beliefs" trumped science, forcing Galileo to recant his understanding of the solar system. The president should unequivocally support the climate science community.

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Faces of an American Recovery: Clean Energy Jobs

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy Jobs, Congress, Recovery Act, Climate Change, Waxman-Markey, Politics News

The Recovery Act reoriented America to the future and refocused our efforts on our strengths. Our strength has always been our ability to innovate. Our weakness is our addiction to oil.

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Weekly Mulch: New bills and old money

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nrdc, Waxman-Markey, Johann Hair, Environmentalists, Carbon Emissions, Lobbying, Filibuster, George Voinovich, Co2, The Nation, Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman, Coal, Barack Obama, Alternet, Kerry-Boxer, Sierra Club, Campus Progress, Nuclear Energy, Barbara Boxer, Mother Jones, Cap-and-Trade, John Kerry, Climate Change, Aces, Energy and Commerce Committee, National Wildlife Foundation, Climate Change Bill, Grist, Senate, Green News

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Climate legislation is returning to the Senate's docket, and leaders on Capitol Hill are hoping that this ve...

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Any Hope for Meaningful U.S. Climate Policy? A Somewhat Positive View

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Cap and Dividend, Environment, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Waxman-Markey, Politics News

Here's a modified version of cap-and-trade that could be much more attractive in this era of rampant expressions of populism, coming both from the right ("no new taxes") and the left ("bash the corporations").

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Real Feasibility: Dividends Relieve Economic Uncertainty

Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, CLEAR Act, Maria Cantwell, Climate Bill, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Capping carbon won't be a tax on middle-class families. On the contrary, it will pay them dividends. In a time of economic uncertainty, what could be more reassuring and politically appealing than that?

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

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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

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Fossil Fuel Is the New Slavery: Morally and Economically Corrupt

Robin Chase | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, Economy, John Kerry, Waxman-Markey, Slavery, Climate Change, Morality, Climate Bill, Green News

Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.

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Palin: Birthing Global Warming Denial

Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Markey, Copenhagen 2009, Epa, Sarah Palin, Waxman-Markey, Rep. Edward Markey, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Global Warming, Politics News

The right-wing misinformation machine is in full swing. And that machine doesn't have its final cylinder cranking until Sarah Palin jumps into the fray, which she did today in a mistake-riddled, anti-clean energy op-ed.

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Cap and Trade, Meet the Opposition

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cap and Trade, Kerry-Boxer, Timberland, Waxman-Markey, Green News

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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Going To Copenhagen Empty-Handed

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Reich, Copenhagen 2009, Waxman-Markey, Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Barack Obama, Obama Climate Policy, Cap and Trade, Green News

There's no way between now and Copenhagen that Obama can get a strong climate bill through Congress. So here's my suggestion.

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

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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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Report From Copenhagen

Rep. Diana DeGette | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Green Jobs, Copenhagen 2009, cop15, Waxman-Markey, Noaa, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Global Warming, Denver News

It is almost certain that the final binding deal will not be reached in Copenhagen, but we have every reason to believe that we are moving in the right direction.

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Will Climate Protection Legislation Protect Workers Too?

Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Labor, Workers, Green Jobs, Waxman-Markey, Climate Change, Green Politics, Labor Unions, Global Warming, Green News

One great fear is blocking public support for climate protection: The fear that protecting the planet will destroy millions of jobs. Without a bold p...

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Saudi Arabia Learns Hubris from Big Coal

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coal, Saudi Arabia, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey, Green News

Saudi Arabia has been lobbying to gain financial compensation if a treaty passes that reduces world dependence on oil. is that so different from what the coal industry has done in Washington, D.C.?

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Inside the Chamber of Carbon's Climate War

Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Waxman-Markey, Apple, Mother Jones, Politics News

In the Chamber of Commerce's zeal to please a few powerful industries they seem to have fallen out of step with their environmentally concerned members.

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Obama on His Own

Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Energy Efficiency, Lisa Jackson, Carbon Emissions, Copenhagen 2009, Carol Browner, Steven Chu, Waxman-Markey, Epa, Green, Climate Change, Department of Energy, Green Energy, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Haiti Earthquake, Green News

Using his executive authority, President Barack Obama can instruct power plants to slash emissions and order new efficiency standards to cut the energy used by consumer and commercial appliances.

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Public Option: This Is How It's Supposed to Work

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Reid, Public Option, Waxman-Markey, Politics News

We have pushed the limits of Establishment health care debate, buried the right-wing lies and gave people a stronger voice in their democracy. That's how it's supposed to work.

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Tell Your Senators to Save Our National Parks From Global Warming

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

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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World Leaders Fiddle While the World Burns: Time for a New Climate Strategy

Brendan Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kerry-Boxer, Labor, Copenhagen 2009, Waxman-Markey, Copenhagen, Green, Environment, Climate Change, Obama Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Labor Unions, Barack Obama, Climate Bill, Green News

We have learned a great deal more about the science of climate change. But we have barely begun to discuss what kind of political change is necessary to do what must be done.

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The Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act Helps Consumers, the Climate, and the Economy

Mike Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cap and Dividend, Susan Collins, Climate Change, CLEAR Act, Maria Cantwell, Waxman-Markey, Green News

A proposed anti-global warming bill would help the U.S. make a fair, affordable transition to a clean-energy, low-carbon economy, and avoid the pitfalls of other climate bills that pander to the coal-burning utilities.

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