Jeff Bingaman
-
Jeff Bingaman retiring; Senate to get even dumber on clean energy
New Mexico Sen. Jeff BingamanBig news today: Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is retiring. He won’t run for reelection in 2012. All political pundits are required by law to write something about What This Means, so here goes. First, it means Senate Dems are not very optimistic about […]
-
Highlights from our chat with reporter Ryan Lizza on Senate climate politics
A big Grist thanks to reporter Ryan Lizza, author of the magisterial recent piece in The New Yorker on the death of the climate bill in the Senate, for stopping by to chat with us yesterday. The entire (two-hour!) transcript is still up, but here are a few highlights.
-
Lessons from the climate fight: Dem party leaders screwed the climate bill
The leadership of the Democratic Party did little to help the climate bill and much to hurt it, treating it with indifference, carelessness, and hostility.
-
The Climate Post: Castro's secret meeting with scientists proves climate change is a communist plot
Read about the renewable energy standard's 11th-hour comeback, the Cancun climate summit, the White House's "sinister plot," and more.
-
New W.Va. senator won’t help climate bill — and maybe nothing else will either
West Virginia’s new senator, Carte Goodwin (D)Senate Democrats get a little of their groove back today when a replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (W. Va.) is sworn in. But don’t expect him to bail them out on climate change. I’m a coal man: Carte Goodwin, a 36-year-old attorney, is being seen as a […]
-
Me, on the Rachel Maddow Show
I was on the Rachel Maddow Show last night. While Maddow herself is reporting from Afghanistan and Iraq, the show is being guest hosted by Chris Hayes, political editor at The Nation. Here’s the bit: [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.1012193&w=425&h=350&fv=launch%3D38159001%26width%3D400%26height%3D320] As to the substance, I’d add one thing. Chris frames the bill in the Senate as one designed […]
-
If Bingaman is the climate bill’s best hope, where does that leave us?
This is Sen. Jeff Bingaman looking excited.Could Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) be the savior for Senate climate legislation? That’s the latest chatter inside the Beltway. Bingaman has been pushing an energy-only bill, passed by his Energy Committee last year, that wouldn’t put a cap or a price on carbon. But he’s also now drafting a […]
-
The latest in Democratic fecklessness
I will never get used to the strategic and tactical fecklessness of the Senate Democrats. After a caucus meeting last week, it seemed like they’d finally stumbled onto the only strategy that has a snowball’s chance in hell of actually working: package a price on carbon with a tough response to the Gulf oil spill, take […]
-
Senate oil savings’ greatest hits
Is Congress moving us toward a fuel-efficient future? Plug-in hybrid electric cars could be the cars of tomorrow.Photo courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory Oil, oil, everywhere, but not a drop for fuel. This is the stark view of Gulf Coast residents who see a 24,500 square mile oil slick menacing their shores. The devastating BP […]