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Senate Environment & Public Works Climate Hearings
African American Environmentalist Association —
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer, left, starts the debate over climate legislation this week with three hearings on legislation that would curb U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions: 10/27/09 Full Committee hearing entitled, “Legislative Hearing on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/28/09 Full Committee hearing entitled, “Legislative Hearing on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power ...
Senate Environment & Public Works Climate Hearings
African American Environmentalist Association —
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by California Congresswoman Barbara Boxer, left, starts the debate over climate legislation this week with three hearings on legislation that would curb U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions: 10/27/09 Full Committee hearing entitled, “Legislative Hearing on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10/28/09 Full Committee hearing entitled, “Legislative Hearing on S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power ...
The big stories out of today’s Senate hearing on Kerry-Boxer
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
by David Roberts Today’s hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee—the first of three days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill—didn’t contain any big surprises. As Keith Johnson notes, Senators generally played their appointed roles. There are four stories out of today that seem notable. 1. Republicans are completely out of the game. This has been true ever since Obama was elected, of course, but today’s hearing threw it in sharp relief. They’re just not involved in the conversation. On the far end you have Inhofe, still shouting at clouds about the science. But ...
Clean Energy Jobs and Climate Legislation
Switchboard, from NRDC —
This is a big week in Washington for clean energy legislation. Marathon hearings are taking place in the U.S. Senate. Yesterday, President Obama announced the largest investment in energy grid technology in U.S. history. And Vice President Biden let us know that Fisker Automotive is re-opening a shuttered former GM factory in Wilmington, Delaware.
Today, the Senate EPW Committee explores clean energy jobs during the 2nd day of hearings on the Clean Energy Jobs and America's Power Act.
One of the key benefits of climate legislation is that done right, it will repower the US economy by restoring America's leadership in clean energy and clean technologies, driving ...
Increasing competitiveness through clean energy: Taking on China’s broad-based effort to be the world’s clean energy leader
Climate Progress —
I hope you have been watching panel 3 of today’s Senate climate bill hearings. It has been incredibly informative about the international competitiveness issue, especially China’s aggressive efforts to become the clean energy leader and the complete turnaround in the thinking of Chinese business and policymakers since Chinese President Hu Jintao’s UN speech (see “Are Chinese emissions pledges a game changer for Senate action?“). I’ll do a post on it later. Here is the testimony of CAP president and CEO John Podesta. I have reprinted the extensive discussion of China’s efforts to forever seize leadership in clean energy, which ...
Senators Hear Testimony on Clean Energy and Climate Bill
Apollo Alliance —
Senators Hear Testimony on Clean Energy and Climate Bill Please advance to 65:26 in the video to view Kate\'s testimony The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held three days of hearings this week on the Senate climate and clean energy bill, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The committee heard from climate scientists, energy company CEOs, state and local government officials, labor union leaders, utility company executives, Obama administration officials and others. Many Apollo Alliance allies testified before the committee as well, including Board Member Dan Reicher, director of Google’s climate and energy initiatives, and Senior Policy Advisor Kate Gordon, who also serves ...
CEI abandons James “the last flat-earther” Inhofe. In 31-page testimony, CEI never challenges the science while warning inadequte policies threaten “those who will suffer the consequences of global warming.”
Climate Progress —
Et tu, Competitive Enterprise Institute?
When we last left Senator James Inhofe (R-OIL), the Washington Post was mocking him as “the last flat-earther” for his denial of the increasingly painful reality of human-caused climate change. The WP noted that even his fellow Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works committee had abandoned his far-out-of-the-mainstream denial:
“Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate change is real; humans have caused most of the recent warming,” admitted Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.).
That was just Day 1 of the ...
