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California OKs Cap-and-Trade

Kevin Spak — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:39:42 CDT

California became the first state in the nation to adopt its own cap-and-trade system yesterday, as its Air Resources Board voted unanimously to approve the regulations. The vote came after a grueling eight-hour meeting filled with the opinions of angry union members, disapproving industry representatives, and miscellaneous plan supporters, the...

Obama's Real Secret: He's a Republican

Kevin Spak — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:08:00 CDT

Don’t listen to Donald Trump. Barack Obama is not a Socialist Kenyan Muslim. The truth is far more startling: He’s a moderate Republican from the 1990s, writes Ezra Klein of the Washington Post . Obama’s major policy ideas—mandate-based health care reform, cap-and-trade, and raising taxes to reduce the deficit—are...

California Approves Cap-and-Trade System

Matt Cantor — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:29:05 CST

While climate legislation flounders in Congress, California is taking the lead: Air regulators there voted yesterday to cap industrial greenhouse gas emissions and instate the first carbon-trading program of its size in the US, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Most political people said we should do as little as possible...

As Earth Bakes, Blame Cowards Like McCain

Kevin Spak — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:33:00 CDT

Climate change legislation looks dead, and Paul Krugman knows what killed it. “It wasn’t the science, the scientists, or the economics,” he writes in the New York Times . It was “the usual suspects: greed and cowardice.” A carbon limitation would put at most a tiny dent in economic growth, but...

Harry Reid Delays Climate Change Bill

Kevin Spak — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:14:50 CDT

Harry Reid has decided to put sweeping climate change legislation on the back burner, and instead bring a more limited package of oil spill response measures to the floor next week, senior Democratic aides tell the Hill . Aides insist that Reid hasn’t given up on passing the legislation this year....

Obama Will Use Gulf Spill to Push Energy Bill

Kevin Spak — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:30:00 CDT

Barack Obama will call for a clean energy bill in his Oval Office address on the oil spill tomorrow, as part of a renewed push for the once all-but-abandoned legislation. The White House believes that the spill has whetted the public’s appetite for energy reform, top aides tell Politico . One...

Oil Spill Dooms Climate Bill

Kevin Spak — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:21:00 CDT

Energy reform advocates scrambled yesterday to rescue the bill that's been slogging its way through the Senate, but the Gulf oil spill appears to be the final, ironic nail in its coffin, Politico reports. Republicans will only vote for the bill if it includes an expansion of oil drilling, something...

Five More Lindsey Grahams, and We Have an Energy Bill

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:59 CST

There's more to the GOP energy policy than just "Drill, baby, drill"—or at least there will be if Lindsey Graham has anything to do with it. The South Carolina Republican is teaming with Joe Lieberman and John Kerry to push hefty carbon-cutting legislation, and he tells Thomas Friedman that...

Climate Change: The Time Is Now

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:30:00 CST

Wouldn't it be great if you woke up this morning, opened the newspaper , and read all about how climate-change deniers were right all along? Al Gore thinks so, but instead, you'll find his op-ed piece in the Times , warning that while climate deniers might've gotten a chuckle over leaked emails,...