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Climate Bill Likely on the Shelf For Rest of the Year Key Senate Democrats Tuesday said it is unlikely there will be any more major committee action on climate-change legislation this year, the strongest indication yet that a comprehensive bill to cut greenhouse-gas emissions won't be voted on until at least next year.
The viability of wind energyIt's interesting that the article points out that the single greatest challenge to the use of wind power comes from finding better storage for harnessing peak energy production.
China and U.S. Seek a Truce on Greenhouse Gases For months the United States and China, by far the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, have been warily circling each other in hopes of breaking a long impasse on global warming policy.
Caps, Trades and Offsets: Can Climate Plan Work?It sounds like alchemy, an act of bureaucratic magic. Under the climate-change bill just approved by a House committee, the U.S. government would literally make a commodity -- as tradable as a Pontiac or a pork belly -- out of thin air.
Washington Post: Climate Bill Badly FlawedThe so-called cap and trade bill allegedly designed to drastically reduce carbon emissions is "badly flawed," would cost the U.S.
House Panel Clears Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases A landmark proposal to curb U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions cleared a key congressional panel, bolstering prospects that the government will put a price on carbon for the first time and portending a major shift in how the U.S. uses energy.
China benefits from Obama's fuel mandateThe Chinese must think we're chumps.
Economic Challenges for Climate Change PolicyPresident Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress say they are committed to enacting mandates to curb greenhouse gases.
U.S. Orders Stricter Fuel Goals for Autos The Obama administration plans to order auto makers to increase the fuel economy of automobiles sold in the U.S. to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, four years faster than current federal law requires, people familiar with the matter said.
House Democrats' emissions bill includes concessions to major polluters House Democrats are approaching consensus on a major legislative effort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions – with significant concessions to nearly every major polluter except the oil industry.
Waxman Says Climate Plan Would Cut Emissions By 17% Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee agreed on a plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020, Chairman Henry Waxman said today.
EPA Chief Says CO2 Finding May Not 'Mean Regulation' The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday a finding that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a public health danger won't necessarily lead to government regulation of emissions, an apparent about-face for the Obama administration.
Climate-Bill Breaks Bode Ill for Deficit The Obama administration said Monday that it expected even wider deficits this year and next than previously forecast, and Congress could undermine the administration's push to narrow the gap by slashing the revenue generated by the president's plan to curb greenhouse gases.
India Chooses Coal, Not Kyoto With the rest of the world talking about carbon dioxide emissions and another Kyoto-style emission reductions plan, India continues to utilize the energy source that it has in abundance: coal.
U.S. climate bill unlikely to pass this year: expertsU.S. climate change legislation is unlikely to pass this year due to concerns about the recession and contention over the implementation of the program, according to energy and carbon market experts.
Carbon Reality, Again It's turning out that the biggest problem with carbon taxes is political reality. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has just announced he will delay implementing his trademark cap-and-trade emissions trading proposal until at least 2011. Mr.
ALEX MILLS: EPA findings put new face to cap-and-tradeAs the House Energy and Commerce Committee deliberated over a cap-and-trade program, the Environmental Protection Agency recently declared that six industrial emissions endanger "the health and welfare of current and future generations."
Waxman, Markey Still Searching for VotesHouse Democratic leaders appeared to still be short of the votes needed to pass climate-change legislation out of a key subcommittee, but a spokeswoman for one of the lawmakers leading the talks said negotiations were continuing.
Does Anyone Understand Geo-Engineering?Research may be needed to evaluate alternatives to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Climate bill has some on edgeAs the climate change battle continues to heat up, dozens of lawmakers, industry associations and environmental advocates are waging intense lobbying campaigns to shape legislation that would establish a cap-and-trade system.
Costly cap Another day, another study on the economic impacts of a cap-and-trade bill. This one comes from CRA International at the request of the Coalition for Affordable American Energy, which includes business groups like the U.S.
In Climate Change Debate, It's All About JobsAs House leaders launched an aggressive push on global warming legislation last week with four days of intensive hearings, the focus was squarely on jobs and the economic impact of trying to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
'Cap and trade' costs not detailed in House climate billThe Obama administration opened Earth Day lobbying for an expansive climate change bill with the question still looming of just how much businesses will be forced to pay to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Administration Stops Short of Endorsing Climate Bill Obama administration officials said Wednesday that an ambitious energy and climate-change proposal sponsored by House Democrats could help create jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of endorsing it.
House to debate climate bill limitsThe House climate bill lawmakers begin debating Tuesday would increase fuel-efficiency standards, establish mandates for renewable electricity, spur "clean coal" technology and open a legal path for victims of climate change — in addition to enacting a carbon-trading proposal, …
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