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 emissions.  Climate advocates groused [...]

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 [...]

The Hour of Choosing Arrives: American Power Act Introduced in Senate

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network

In a long-awaited proposal designed to secure existing domestic energy sources and develop new ones that begin to reverse the damaging effects of global climate change, New England Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman today introduced comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation.
The co-authors of the bill, one a Democrat from [...]

Picking Up the Pieces: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 9

April 9, 2010
Bonn Marks Start of Intensifying Schedule of Global Climate and Economy Meetings

Today diplomats and climate action specialists met in Bonn for the first international climate meeting since the Copenhagen summit in December. April in fact marks the start of an intensifying schedule of global negotiating sessions on climate [...]

Warmest On Record: Climate Action Hotline, Mar. 26

March 26, 2010

New Mexico Senator Tom Udall

Now that passage of health care legislation proved that Congress is still capable of acting on big ideas, Washington this week was aflutter with action on the climate and energy bill. Good thing, too, since NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies posted findings early in [...]

White House Powwow: Climate Action Hotline: March 11, 2010

Report Examines Hidden Costs of Energy

The external damages from sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter created by burning coal at 406 coal-fired power plants, which produce 95 percent of the nation’s coal-generated electricity, were about $62 billion in 2005. These nonclimate damages average about 3.2 cents for every kilowatt-hour of energy produced.
Those are some of the findings of [...]

Climate Change on Two Continents: Climate Action Hotline, Nov. 5

November 5, 2009

The work to clean the skies of climate changing pollution took center stage this week in influential policy forums on two continents– the 5-day UNFCCC climate negotiating session in Barcelona, and the U.S. Senate. The objective of climate advocates, which includes the White House and many Democrats on Capitol Hill was to [...]