Tag Archives: Senate
Efforts to Save Coal Could End Up Destroying It
Preventing reductions in global warming pollution by Congress or EPA would prolong uncertainty for investors, ignore public opinion, and deprive a market and revenue essential to develop and deploy the technology necessary to ensure coal’s long-term future. By trying to save coal from pollution reductions these senators could end up destroying it. Continue reading
Update on Senate Climate Negotiations
Will the Senate take up immigration reform before climate and energy legislation? During today’s OnPoint, E&E reporter Darren Samuelsohn discusses the latest developments in the Senate climate debate. He explains how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to proceed with climate negotiations and talks about alternatives to the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill. Continue reading
Obama’s Challenges
In his State of the Union Speech, the president continues to endorse the creation of a clean energy economy built on carbon constraints and the expansion of a modern infrastructure that involves new generation and the intelligent utility. But he is also becoming increasingly vocal in his support for new nuclear power plants as well as the development of clean coal technologies and more offshore oil and gas drilling. Continue reading
Outstanding critique of cap and trade by two EPA attorneys.
“The House and Senate climate bills are not a first step in the right direction. They would give away valuable rights in cap-and-trade permits and create a trillion-dollar carbon-offsets market that will not lead to needed reductions. Together, the illusion of greenhouse-gas reductions and the creation of powerful lobbies seeking to protect newly created profits in permits and offsets would lock in climate degradation for a decade or more. The near-term opportunity to create an effective international framework would also be lost.” Continue reading
U.S. security requires action on climate change, bipartisan group says
A bipartisan group of 32 former secretaries of State, national security advisers, senators, military leaders and senior foreign policy officials are urging Congress to pass legislation aimed at reducing the country’s dependence on petroleum, curbing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating the effects of climate change. Continue reading
Kansas and the Clean Energy Bill
If the Senate follows through, the U.S. energy revolution will be underway.
On June 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, with last-minute amendments that benefit the agriculture industry.
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Analysis: Climate bill may spur energy revolution
Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead. Continue reading
Voting in the Senate for S Sub for HB 2369
On roll call, the vote was: Yeas 37, Nays 2, Present and Passing 0, Absent or Not Voting 1. Continue reading
Enough fighting over coal plants
Surprising no one, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed the latest legislative attempt to approve two large coal-fired power plants near Holcomb in Finney County.
The Legislature should take a good look at all the economic, political and regulatory changes affecting new coal plants, then take Sebelius’ fourth “no” for an answer. Continue reading
Why does GPACE support a veto of 2014?
Why does GPACE oppose the bill? It’s not comprehensive energy policy, it doesn’t establish regulatory certainty, and it misses the mark for financial responsibility. Continue reading
