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epa.gov - 27 days ago
Economic Analyses | Climate Change - Climate Economics | U.S. EPA
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Download the cover letter to Senator Lieberman from EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Robert J. Meyers: Cover Letter (PDF) (4 pp, 224 KB, About PDF ) Download the cover letter to Senator Warner from EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Robert J. Meyers: Cover Letter (PDF) (4 ...
industry.bnet.com - 26 days ago
Cow Burps OK: House, Senate Block EPA From Regulating Livestock Emissions
— industry.bnet.com — Farmers can breath a little easier now — cows can burp and fart without fear of the Environmental Protection Agency regulating their methane emissions. You may remember the “cow tax” rumors that floated around late last year and caused an uproar among ... (more) Cow Burps OK: House, Senate Block EPA From Regulating ...

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wired.com - 20 days ago
EPA Tests Porous Pavement, Greener Gardens
— wired.com — rainylot As stormwater runoff endangers the world’s water supply, the EPA is busy planting gardens and repaving its parking lots. Don’t worry — it’s not just an attempt to beautify the agency’s field offices in Edison, New Jersey. The renovations are ... (more) EPA Tests Porous Pavement, Greener Gardens

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Top Official: 'The EPA Is Back On The Job'
npr.org - 10/22/2009
Top Official: 'The EPA Is Back On The Job'
— npr.org — National Public Radio: The Environmental Protection Agency released a long-secret document last week that reveals the agency's conclusions on global warming while President Bush was in office. The December 2007 document says greenhouse gases are ... (more) Top Official: 'The EPA Is Back On The Job'

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Energy Priorities:  Senate Debates Climate Legislation amid Competing Forecasts of Its Effects

Climate Progress:  The “Party Of No” becomes the “Party Of Slow”

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Senate Debates Climate Legislation amid Competing Forecasts of Its Effects
Energy Priorities — ... on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. Nine panels will hear from more than 50 witnesses, including Exelon Chairman and CEO John Rowe, who made news by pulling his company out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber's aggressive stance against climate legislation. In the lead-up to the hearings, various agencies and groups have released a flurry of reports on the economic effects of climate legislation. The U.S. EPA issued an economic analysis concluding that S. 1733 would not significantly change the cost to American families of the House-passed ...

The “Party Of No” becomes the “Party Of Slow”
Climate Progress — ... analyses were conducted of the House bill, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), and the EPA has conducted additional analysis of the Senate legislation. The Republicans’ interest in analysis is little more than an excuse for delay and defeat of clean energy legislation. In one of the boycotted hearings this week, Sen. Boxer noted that the “EPA has also indicated that this economic analysis reflects ...

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epa.gov 6/25/2009 — Download EPA memo, ' Ways in Which Revisions to the American Clean Energy and Security Act Change the Projected Economic Impacts of the Bill ' (PDF) (2 pp, 21KB, About PDF ) Download the Executive Summary: Executive Summary (PDF) (9 pp, 79 KB, About ...
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Carbon emissions pose danger, EPA finds
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New EPA analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer electric bills 7% lower in 2020 thanks to efficiency — plus 50 GW of extra coal retirements and no new dirty plants
climateprogress.org 6/25/2009 — The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) here . The bottom line is that the total cost to consumers is low, just as CBO found — just as all major independent analyses of even strong ...
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ewg.org 5/18/2009 — May 18th, 2009 In March 2009 corn ethanol producers asked for help from the federal government to expand their industry. Growth Energy, a consortium of ethanol producers, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow ...
A Revived EPA Takes on Climate Change and More
usnews.com 4/13/2009 — U.S. News and World Report: Over the past 10 weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency has been pumping out proposals and directives on everything from climate change to pollution from ships. In one high-profile move last month, the EPA said it will ...
New EPA analysis of Waxman-Markey: Consumer electric bills 7% lower in 2020 thanks to efficiency — plus 50 GW of extra coal retirements and no new dirty plants
theenergycollective.com 6/25/2009 — The EPA has posted its detailed analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) here .  The bottom line is that the total cost to consumers is low, just as CBO found — just as all major independent analyses of even strong action show (see “” Intro to climate economics ...
EPA Fails To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water
huffingtonpost.com 8/27/2009 — One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers have not been told and the Environmental Protection Agency has not published the results. Records ...
The dangerous myth that the EPA’s endangerment finding can somehow stop dangerous warming if the climate bill dies
climateprogress.org 7/16/2009 — Over and over again, in e-mails and comments and blog posts , I hear some enviros saying that it doesn’t matter if Waxman-Markey fails, since EPA can use the endangerment finding to regulate CO2 as well or better. That dangerously mistaken ...
Jessy Tolkan: From MIT to Copenhagen: How Obama Can Help Us Win Climate Victory — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 27 days ago
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Frances Beinecke: Latest of Draft of Senate Climate Bill: What's Good and What Needs Work — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 27 days ago
Last Friday, Senators Kerry and Boxer released a more detailed draft of the clean energy and climate legislation they introduced last month. This new version brings welcome clarity and offers an excellent starting point for Senate Environment and ...
Kerry: US leadership at stake in climate debate — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 27 days ago
WASHINGTON — Senators tussled over the cost of climate legislation Tuesday with the leading author of the bill maintaining that while energy prices will increase, inaction on global warming would cause even worse economic and security problems. ...
Climate Change: Australians May Be Banned From Living On The Coast — Green on HuffingtonPost.com 27 days ago
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Administration Steps Up Efforts on Climate Bill — NYT > Environment 27 days ago
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