Senator Murkowski Is In Trouble; More Intel on the Koch Brothers
Alaska’s two-term Senator Lisa Murkowski is more than 1,600 votes behind in the Republican primary, with nearly all precincts reporting. State election officials are now counting the 7,600 absentee ballots, and results should be known next week. Recall that in June, the Senate voted 53 to 47 to block Senator Murkowski’s resolution to rescind... Read more of this article
Senator Murkowski Is In Trouble; More Intel on the Koch Brothers, Climate Action Hotline 8.27.10
August 27, 2010 Senator Murkowski Is In Trouble; More Intel on the Koch Brothers Alaska’s two-term Senator Lisa Murkowski is more than 1,600 votes behind in the Republican primary, with nearly all precincts reporting. State election officials are now counting the 7,600 absentee ballots, and results should be known next week. Recall... Read more of this article
Attacks on Climate Science Connected to New Era of Hydrocarbon Development
There’s nothing polite about the House and Senate campaigns that attack directly the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and man-made carbon emissions are its primary cause. It doesn’t matter that independent scientific panels uniformly concluded that the emails stolen from East Anglia University last year did nothing to weaken... Read more of this article
Asleep at the Wheel
China and the U.S. Going Different Ways In the troubled climate action summer of 2010 it’s at least a little relief to know that some progress is occurring. The Department of Energy, in its latest assessment released this month of the American wind energy sector, reports that Texas is generating 2.29 gigawatts of energy from wind – equivalent... Read more of this article
Attacks on Climate Science Connected to New Era of Hydrocarbon Development, Climate Action Hotline 8.20.10
August 20, 2010 Attacks on Climate Science Connected to New Era of Hydrocarbon Development There’s nothing polite about the House and Senate campaigns that attack directly the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and man-made carbon emissions are its primary cause. It doesn’t matter that independent scientific... Read more of this article
Asleep at the Wheel, Climate Action Hotline 8.13.10
August 13, 2010 Asleep at the Wheel China and the U.S. Going Different Ways In the troubled climate action summer of 2010 it’s at least a little relief to know that some progress is occurring. The Department of Energy, in its latest assessment released this month of the American wind energy sector, reports that Texas is generating... Read more of this article
Gulf Disaster Approaches End as Senate Again Delays Energy Bill, Climate Action Hotline 8.6.10
August 6, 2010 Gulf Disaster Approaches End As Senate Again Delays Energy Bill On day 108 of the BP oil catastrophe, the company began pouring cement to seal the blown out well and eliminate the chance it would pour more oil into Gulf waters. The United States this week estimated the BP blowout, which began with an explosion... Read more of this article
Time to Recharge and Gear Up to Protect EPA Authority, Climate Action Hotline, July 29, 2010
July 29, 2010 Time to Recharge and Gear Up to Protect EPA Authority A week after Senate Democrats abandoned the work of limiting carbon emissions that are warming the Earth, leaders of the House and Senate introduced separate proposals to reduce the risk of deep ocean energy exploration and production, and advance energy efficiency... Read more of this article
Narrow Energy Bills Introduced in House and Senate
Goals: Make Deep Ocean Drilling Safer; Improve Energy Efficiency House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday introduced separate energy proposals that are principally concerned with limiting the hazards of deep ocean energy exploration and production, and also contain modest additional measures to strengthen energy efficiency programs and expand the use... Read more of this article
A Vow Not To Go Away on Climate Legislation: Climate Action Hotline July 23
July 23, 2010 No sooner had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced on Thursday that climate measures would be dropped from a new and much more narrowly focused energy bill than the finger pointing began. Democrats blamed Republican resistance. Republicans countered that not even enough Democrats were wedded to cuts in carbon... Read more of this article
Climate Dropped From Energy Bill
WASHINGTON, JULY 22 – Though he vowed last week to introduce a comprehensive climate and energy bill before the end of the month, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid emerged this afternoon from a meeting with Democratic colleagues and announced that the new bill would not include specific measures to limit emissions that are warming the Earth. A much... Read more of this article
Winds of Change and Other Hot Pubs
USCAN MEMBER HOT PUBLICATIONS Carbon Capture and Storage: This brief study, “An assessment of cumulative CO2 reductions from carbon capture and storage at coal fuelled plants in a carbon constrained world,” (June 2010) by Friends of the Earth (Denmark) estimates contributions from Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to cuts in global CO2 emissions.... Read more of this article
“Pollution” Is In: Climate Action Hotline, July 15
July 15, 2010 On Tuesday, during a brief meeting with reporters, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he’d been working with senior Senate lawmakers and Obama administration officials to introduce by the end of July a comprehensive climate and energy bill that could gain 60 votes for passage. The draft he’s... Read more of this article
Record Heat: Climate Action Hotline, July 7
July 7, 2010 As cities on the East Coast sweltered in the sort of dispiriting record-breaking heat that climate scientists predicted, the Obama administration’s lawyers were in a federal appellate court in New Orleans today to reinstate the moratorium on deep sea oil and gas exploration the Interior Department issued in May.... Read more of this article
Science is Vindicated
By Keith Schneider US Climate Action Network The 20-year global campaign to cool the planet, one of the most influential civic movements in human history, was built on two points of reference. The first is visible evidence on every continent of escalating temperatures, melting ice, more ferocious storms, fiercer droughts, and deadlier floods. The second... Read more of this article
More Compromise: Climate Action Hotline, July 1
July 1, 2010 Following a 90-minute White House meeting Tuesday on climate and energy legislation with a bipartisan group of senators and President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid emerged to issue this assessment: “The President led a spirited, productive discussion this morning about how to move forward on clean... Read more of this article
Stirred Into Action: Climate Action Hotline, June 25
June 25, 2010 Bolstered by new opinion polls and driven by a monstrous blowout that is closing Gulf Coast beaches at the height of the travel season, Democratic leaders stirred into action this week on comprehensive climate and energy legislation. On Wednesday President Obama concluded an all hands cabinet meeting at the White... Read more of this article
Obama Vows To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: Goal is to pass and sign comprehensive energy and climate legislation
By Keith Schneider US Climate Action Network Given the emotional reserve of a man whose aides once referred to as “no drama Obama,” the president is getting pretty fired up about energy. On Wednesday this week President Obama concluded an all hands cabinet meeting at the White House by publicly declaring again his resolve to develop a “new... Read more of this article
Billion Gallon Challenge and Other Hot Pubs
Recent USCAN Member Reports Explosive Tax Breaks. The nuclear industry could end up facing no risk under massive tax break subsidies in the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill, according to a new analysis (June17, 2010) conducted for Friends of the Earth by the research organization Earth Track. These tax breaks totaling $9.7 billion to $57.3 billion (depending... Read more of this article
Energy (In)dependence: Climate Action Hotline, June 16
June 18, 2010 President Obama’s Oval Office address on Tuesday, during which he called for a new “national mission” to achieve energy independence, did not include any specific target dates or goals. There’s a reason. Seven presidents before him, starting with Richard Nixon, had done just that and came up with zilch. To... Read more of this article
