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Can the renewable electricity standard be saved?
Last week, Harry Reid announced a pared-down energy bill, and it didn't include a key policy: the renewable electricity standard that would require utilities to get some of their power from clean energy. Now a coalition of groups is pressing him to put it back in.
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The climate bill is dead. Long live the climate bill!
Months after the Waxman-Markey/Kerry-Lieberman bill died, Harry Reid and environmentalists have finally admitted it is dead, and may even be ready to remove its rotting corpse from the living room and give it a decent burial.
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The way forward after the Senate's climate failure
Here’s President Obama in April 2009: Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. As of yesterday, it looks like we’re gonna go with decline. Prosperity was over-rated anyhow. That’s what seems to be the message, anyway, from DC, where […]
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Senate energy package: Wait, it gets worse!
The Democrats are planning to put forward a very tiny, weak energy package. Here's what we know is going to be in the package.
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State and EPA climate action become key as Senate gives up
The World Resources Institute has a new report that calculates what exactly states and federal agencies could accomplish in the absence of Congressional action. So how much good could they do?
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On the death of the climate bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has officially announced that there will be no climate bill this year. What's happened is total and complete surrender. There's no silver lining in this cloud.
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Senate PACE bill adds to pressure to restore clean-energy program
Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) introduced a bill Thursday that would put Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs back in action over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's objections.
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The climate bill’s dead. Really dead
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) conceded today that he doesn't have the 60 votes necessary this year to pass a carbon cap, even a watered-down, scaled-back one.
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The failed presidency of Barack Obama, Part 1
Obama's legacy -- and indeed the legacy of all 21st century presidents -- will be determined primarily by whether we avert catastrophic climate change. And if Obama is not going to use the biggest fossil fuel disaster in U.S. history to push for serious climate action when he has the biggest Democratic majorities he is ever going to see, why on Earth would he try under far worse political conditions?
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House Ag Committee to USDA: Take your livestock reform and shove it
The USDA tries to level the playing field for small poultry producers, but the House Ag Committee plays block and tackle on industry's behalf.
