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  • Anti-CAFO ads running in DC Metro

    File this under intriguing. From Ag Professional (via a press release, I think) A new ad campaign is asking area commuters and people visiting Capitol Hill “Who’s hogging our antibiotics?” The series of ads, revealed in D.C. Metro stations and trains this week by the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, is part […]

    Tom Laskawy Politics

  • Waxman-Markey climate bill taken off the fast track by House leaders

    “It doesn’t have to be this month,” Waxman said. “It could be July. But July is going to be awfully crowded with health care. We’ve got to get the bills to the floor and passed by the end of July. And that’s our goal. Both climate and health care.” So says House Energy and Commerce […]

    Joseph Romm Politics

  • A useful summary of Waxman-Markey

    The Energy and Commerce Committee finally released a summary (here) of the American Clean Energy and Security Act as reported by the Committee on May 21 by a vote of 33 to 25. Here are the key provisions: Require electric utilities to meet 20% of their electricity demand through renewable energy sources and energy efficiency […]

    Joseph Romm Politics

  • Caption needed! UPDATE: Caption found

    Photo: APWe couldn’t let this photo of U.S. Reps Henry Waxman, John Dingell, and Ed Markey go unremarked (unreMarkeyed?) — so, caption ideas needed!  Submit them below in comments. Funniest idea gets a priceless Virtual High Five. UPDATE:  The winner of the Virtual High Five is … hapa! (With apologies to Eminem.) Y’all act like […]

    Grist staff Politics

  • We’ve got no choice but nukes and carbon-capture tech, says Jeffrey Sachs

    Economist Jeffrey Sachs said carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology and nuclear energy will be necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change, comments made as part of a presentation at the Asia Society in New York Monday night. Jeffrey SachsFile photo courtesy the Earth Institute at Columbia University“Carbon capture better work, because they [China] are not […]

    Jonathan Hiskes Politics

  • Climate change is sexist

    This is the second dispatch by Population Action International from global climate change talks in Bonn, Germany.  Read the first. A Bangladeshi woman searches for drinking water after a cyclone.Photo: Abir Abdullah/OxfamOne of the under-reported issues about climate change is its dramatic affect on women.  A side event I attended this afternoon, organized by the […]

    Kathleen Mogelgaard Politics

  • Martin Feldstein uses Washington Post op-ed page for cap-and-trade scare-mongering

    Martin Feldstein is a conservative economist — a long-time advocate of supply-side, trickle-down economic policy and a leading advocate for Social Security privatization — so it’s no great surprise that he has taken to the pages of the Washington Post to characterize the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill as “All Cost, No Benefit.” Feldstein has […]

    David Roberts Politics

  • First impressions from Bonn: climate change hurts the poor

    At the opening of the international climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, today, representatives from governments around the world shared their opinions on a newly released draft of a global climate treaty that will be debated and (perhaps) finalized when they meet again in Copenhagen in December. Children herd goats in drought-ridden Ethiopia, on land […]

    Kathleen Mogelgaard Politics

  • Boost innovation investments to make Waxman-Markey bill a game-changer

    Advocates of regulatory environmentalism dominated the spin wars last month when the monumental American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) — aka the carbon cap-and-trade bill assembled by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) — passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Climate politics “realists” lauded “historic action” (in […]

    Mark Muro Politics

  • Green sector creates 50 percent of new jobs

    …in Ireland. This is great news for the people of Ireland. But we need to create those jobs in the U.S. too. In Ireland, a country of four million, 10,000 “green” jobs were created in the last three months in organic farming, energy efficient construction, electric cars, and other green industries. With US GDP falling […]

    Billy Parish Politics