What's Up with the Senate?
November 10, 2009 5 min. read

There’s been a lot of hoopla recently about the question of whether or not Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen.  He settled that yesterday by saying that he would go if he’s needed to finalize an agreement.  This story from Reuters quotes the President:  “If I am confident that all of the countries involved are […]

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The State of Play – Domestic Division
October 26, 2009 4 min. read

As you know, there has been a tremendous amount of activity on climate change and energy on The Hill over the past year.  The House of Representatives got going fast, even before the 111th Congress got underway.  A leading progressive, hardball-playing Congressman from Los Angeles, Henry Waxman, assumed the chairmanship of the critical Energy and […]

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The Gas Industry at the "FT"
October 5, 2009 2 min. read

In yet another useful special report at the “Financial Times” – this one today on the gas industry – there are two articles on the theme of what I was talking about recently in which natural gas is being positioned as a “transition” fuel to the low-carbon future.  (See Natural Gas – to Cut GHG […]

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The Regulatory Route
October 1, 2009 2 min. read

Oh, very much not incidentally, the EPA Administrator announced yesterday that they are proposing to require “…large industrial facilities that emit at least 25,000 tons of GHGs a year to obtain construction and operating permits covering these emissions. These permits must demonstrate the use of best available control technologies and energy efficiency measures to minimize […]

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Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act
October 1, 2009 2 min. read

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced the Senate’s version of climate change and energy legislation today.  See this for information on the background of the bill and the working draft itself.  I won’t go into an analysis right now.  (I’ll be getting on that soon, along with about 5,000 other commentators.)  You’ll fershur be […]

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