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epw.senate.gov - 28 days ago
.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Majority Page :.
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Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the text of the Chairman's Mark of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). Senator Boxer said, "We've reached another milestone as we move to a ...
epw.senate.gov - 26 days ago
.: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works :: Hearings :.
— epw.senate.gov — Witnesses Opening Remarks Panel 1 Preston Chiaro Chief Executive Officer, Energy Product Group Rio Tinto John Rowe Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Dr. Willett Kempton Professor, Marine Policy University of Delaware ... (more) .: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ...

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industry.bnet.com - 24 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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Top Official: 'The EPA Is Back On The Job'
npr.org - 30 days ago
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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Grist - the Latest from Grist:  Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill: Chairman’s mark and EPA analysis released

Climate Progress:  Boxer releases Chairman’s mark of Senate climate and clean energy bill; EPA releases economic analysis finding cost to U.S. households of under $10 a month,

WattHead - Energy News and Commentary:  Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown

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Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill: Chairman’s mark and EPA analysis released
Grist - the Latest from Grist — by David Roberts At close to 11pm Eastern, Boxer’s office has finally released the chairman’s mark of the Kerry-Boxer bill. This is the version of the bill that will be debated in hearings next week. Concurrently, the EPA has released its analysis of the economic impacts of the bill (PDF). These are both crucial documents that will see a lot of discussion in coming weeks. Here’s just a few cursory notes. The main thing to know about the EPA analysis is that it came to roughly the same conclusions as it did about the House bill, ACES. That analysis was broadly positive (see here). Here are the EPA’s four main takeaways, which it says remain ...

Boxer releases Chairman’s mark of Senate climate and clean energy bill; EPA releases economic analysis finding cost to U.S. households of under $10 a month,
Climate Progress — U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the text of the Chairman’s Mark of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733).Senator Boxer said, “We’ve reached another milestone as we move to a clean energy future, creating millions of jobs and protecting our children from dangerous pollution. I look forward to the hearings and the markup as we move ahead to the next step.” That’s from the EPW news release from late Friday night.  The full text of the Chairman’s Mark is here (big PDF).  The main difference between this text and the draft of the Clean Energy ...

Boxer releases chairman’s mark, EPA releases economic analysis
Grist - the Latest from Grist — by Joseph Romm U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the text of the Chairman’s Mark of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733).Senator Boxer said, “We’ve reached another milestone as we move to a clean energy future, creating millions of jobs, and protecting our children from dangerous pollution. I look forward to the hearings and the markup as we move ahead to the next step.” That’s from the EPW news release from late Friday night.  The full text of the Chairman’s Mark is here [big PDF].  The main difference between this ...

Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown
WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — ... Late Friday night, Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee released a new draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" ( ...

Senate Climate Bill Also a Clean Energy Bargain According to EPA
Switchboard, from NRDC — Last Friday EPA released its analysis of S.1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA), which will be the subject of marathon legislative hearings this week. EPA found that, like the ACES bill that passed the House in June, CEJAPA is a clean energy bargain: It would set the United States on a course to dramatically reduce global warming pollution 20 percent by 2020 and 83% by 2050 for an average of less than $120 per household per year from 2010 through 2050 (net present value). Another key finding is that the legislation will produce a net benefit for agriculture, a constituency that is even more influential in the Senate than in the House. EPA's analysis of CEJAPA is ...

The Wheels of the Clean Energy Economy
Switchboard, from NRDC — In a previous post, I asked why we don't consider the federal transportation bill a major energy bill. Leaving that question aside, on Friday, Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer introduced a bill that couldn't be mistaken for anything else: the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). As much as we must pass transportation legislation that focuses on energy and climate change, we must also pass climate and energy legislation that focuses on transportation. And the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs bill does just that. The transportation sector represents nearly two-thirds of US oil consumption, and a third of US carbon emissions, and the Clean Energy Jobs bill zeros in ...

Partisan Bickering Puts Climate Bill in Jeopardy
Environmental Leader — November 3, 2009 Partisan Bickering Puts Climate Bill in Jeopardy A key U.S. Senate panel, controlled by Democrats, will begin debating a climate change bill this week despite a planned boycott by minority Republicans who demand more study of the issue, including economic costs on utilities, factories and oil refineries, reports Reuters ...

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