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We need more than ACES
Yesterday morning, on the day that the House of Representatives very narrowly passed a very problematic–a bad–climate bill, I finally became clear in my mind what I was hoping for. My first choice was that the House leadership cancel the planned floor vote because they would decide that they didn’t have enough votes to pass […]
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VIDEO: Violent Massey attack on Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds
Question of the week: Has any Obama administration or West Virginia state official publicly denounced the violence by the mountaintop removal operators this week? Courtesy Coal River Mountain Watch / Amy SicklesIn last Tuesday’s nonviolent march from Marsh Fork Elementary School, which sits downslope of a precarious 2.8 billion gallon coal sludge impoundment, and a […]
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House passes landmark climate and clean-energy bill
House Democrats late Friday eked out a win on the American Clean Energy and Security Act, getting just one more vote than was necessary to pass the sweeping bill. The victory marks the first major action by the U.S. Congress to address climate change, but the narrowness of the vote suggests the fragile nature of […]
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Did Waxman-Markey’s ancestors really deliver on their promises?
President Obama is betting that a cap-and-trade program can help solve the climate crisis. Southern California leaders hoped the same thing when they set up a cap-and-trade program to clean up the region’s air. The results? See above. Photo: jordansmall via Flickr Nearly 20 years ago, a novel program called “cap and trade” was rolled […]
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Reactions to passage of the House climate and energy bill
Many folks are praising the House’s passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, but stressing that they want to see it improved in the Senate. Sierra Club: “With today’s historic vote, Congress has taken the first step toward unleashing a true clean energy revolution. … We urged the House to pass this bill […]
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How did your rep vote on the House climate and energy bill?
By a vote of 219-212, the U.S. House of Representatives on June 26 passed a landmark climate and energy bill — the American Clean Energy and Security Act, aka the Waxman-Markey bill. Most Democrats voted for the bill — 211 in all — but 44 Dems voted against. Almost all Republicans opposed the bill — […]
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Friday music blogging: Little Boots
Waxman-Markey passed the House! Here’s a celebratory song from rising British electro-pop star Little Boots, from her debut album Hands:
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The GOP’s Spanish prisoner/professor
In prepping for today’s House debate on Waxman-Markey, I watched a film. (No, not An Inconvenient Truth.) It was David Mamet’s mindbender, The Spanish Prisoner. The movie takes its title from a venerable long-con so complicated that — I don’t care how many times you’ve seen the film — twenty minutes in and you’ll have […]
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Germany’s Merkel praises U.S. House climate bill as a ‘sea change’
Angela MerkelPhoto: Bertelsmann StiftungThe climate bill being debated today in the U.S. House represents a “sea change” and “points to the fact that the United States [is] very serious on climate,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a visit to the White House this morning. “I wish you every success. … I would not have […]
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Farm lobby: Shoot the climate bill, but keep the Peterson goodies
Give me the loot–then I’ll shoot! I got mugged in Mexico City once. Guy whirled me around and pointed a gun at me. He had a crazed look in his eye–like he might be on familiar terms with a crack pipe or a glue tube. He demanded my wallet with a grunted threat to shoot. […]
