Rockefeller Delay Measure Would Give Air Polluters A Free Pass

By Keith Schneider
U.S. Climate Action Network
More than 1 billion tons of coal are mined and burned in the United States each year, almost all of it to generate electricity in the nation’s more than 600 coal-fired utilities. Those utilities pour 2.67 billion tons of climate changing carbon emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to [...]

The Gulf’s Exploding Platform Underscores Week of Menace and Surprise

Just a day after oil companies sponsored the first of seven rallies to protest the Obama administration’s moratorium on new offshore exploration, another oil platform exploded off the Louisiana coast. Initial news reports said one person was injured and 13 people were rescued from Mariner Energy’s Vermillion [...]

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 of natural gas as a fuel in heavy [...]

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 [...]

A Turning Point in Attack on Climate Science

By Keith Schneider
US Climate Action Network

On May 5, in an unusually aggressive response to what they saw as an academic witch hunt, the University of Virginia Faculty Senate condemned state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s demand to turn over six years of documents related to the work of Michael Mann, a former UVa climate scientist.

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Oily Earth Day: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 23

April 23, 2010

Just a day before the nation marked the 40th Earth Day, the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded 50 miles from the Louisiana coast, leaving 11 people dead, dozens injured, and a pulse of crude oil that is spreading across the Gulf of Mexico. The blast, which caused the platform [...]

Dismay Over Drilling: Climate Action Hotline, Apr. 1

April 1, 2010

The Obama administration threw heaters this week to influence climate and energy policy and practices. The first announcement — to end a long-standing moratorium on offshore oil drilling — was seen as a wild pitch.
The president said the Interior Department would open large swaths of the Atlantic, Gulf, and [...]

Climate Invaders and Other Choice Bits in Hot Pubs

Just in time for April Fool’s Day, the National Wildlife Federation today released its analysis of shifting habitats of ticks and other migrating critters with a tongue in cheek title, “They Came from Climate Change.”

“The horrifying hordes of Climate Invaders are upon us–creeping up from lower elevations, attacking from foreign countries, and settling [...]

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