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The Oil Drum: Drumbeat: October 11, 2009
Climate Progress: Breakthrough Senate climate partnership: Graham (R-SC) and Kerry (D-MA) join forces and assert they are “convinced that we have found both a framework for climate legislation to pass Congress and the blueprint for a clean-energy future that will revitali
Switchboard, from NRDC: Game Changer: Kerry-Graham Op Ed Dramatically Enhances Prospects for Senate Climate Bill this Year
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NYT Op-Ed: Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation) http://tinyurl.com/yjbxu8b 10/21/2009 |
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Optimism: RT @JohnKerry: Lindsey Graham and I penned NYT climate oped: http://bit.ly/2Ejks2 . Bipartisan support completely doable 10/18/2009 |
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Optimism: RT @John Kerry: Lindsey Graham and I penned NYT climate oped: http://bit.ly/2Ejks2. Bipartisan support completely doable 10/18/2009 |
Drumbeat: October 11, 2009
The Oil Drum —
... but more pressing expenses always came first.
Then the town of Babylon came up with an offer she couldn’t refuse: if she and her husband, Carlos, paid $250 for an energy audit, the town would finance the recommended upgrades. The couple would repay the town at a monthly rate below the savings on their utility bill. The audit, done this month, found that by insulating walls, basement and attic, at a cost of $6,879, the Williamses could save about $1,300 a year.
JOHN KERRY and LINDSEY GRAHAM: Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation) ...
Breakthrough Senate climate partnership: Graham (R-SC) and Kerry (D-MA) join forces and assert they are “convinced that we have found both a framework for climate legislation to pass Congress and the blueprint for a clean-energy future that will revitali
Climate Progress —
Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)
That is the stunning banner headline from a must-read op-ed in today’s NY Times by two unlikely legislative partners — Lindsey Graham, Republican senator from South Carolina, an ally of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), and John Kerry, Democratic senator from Massachusetts, lead author of the recently introduced Kerry-Boxer bill aka the “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act.”
The two Senators have a powerful message to the naysayers — and the status quo media which has prematurely written the obituary for both domestic and international climate ...
Game Changer: Kerry-Graham Op Ed Dramatically Enhances Prospects for Senate Climate Bill this Year
Switchboard, from NRDC —
Sunday's New York Times Op-Ed by Senators John Kerry (D-Ma) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) begins:
CONVENTIONAL wisdom suggests that the prospect of Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill soon is rapidly approaching zero. ...However, we refuse to accept the argument that the United States cannot lead the world in addressing global climate change. We are also convinced that we have found both a framework for climate legislation to pass Congress and the blueprint for a clean-energy future that will revitalize our economy, protect current jobs and create new ones, safeguard our national security and reduce pollution.
It's hard to overstate the significance of this joint ...
Landmark Op-Ed Means Climate Legislation
It's Getting Hot In Here —
Cross-Posted from: here
I knew as soon as I read the Op-Ed in the NY Times Sunday co-authored by South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham and John Kerry.
As Energy Smart Now concludes “Let us hope that that “legitimate bipartisan effort” emerges and is reality-based. If it does, again, this might ...
A bipartisan breakthrough on climate
Marc Gunther —
... Kudos to John Kerry and Lindsey Graham. Their op-ed in Sunday’s Times points the way to a breakthrough in the climate change debate that’s desperately needed. ...
Senate Climate Bill Gets Bipartisan Support
TreeHugger —
... --it's now got some serious support from Republican senators. High profile GOP senator Lindsey Graham (SC) has co-authored a game-changing op-ed with Sen. John Kerry (MA) that ran in the New York Times. In it, they discuss the importance of working together to get the important legislation passed as soo... ...
Kerry-Graham op ed dramatically enhances prospects for Senate climate bill this year
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
by Dan Lashof Sunday’s New York Times op-ed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) begins: CONVENTIONAL wisdom suggests that the prospect of Congress passing a comprehensive climate change bill soon is rapidly approaching zero. ... However, we refuse to accept the argument that the United States cannot lead the world in addressing global climate change. We are also convinced that we have found both a framework for climate legislation to pass Congress and the blueprint for a clean-energy future that will revitalize our economy, protect current jobs and create new ones, safeguard our national security and reduce pollution. It’s hard to overstate the ...
Meet Lindsey Graham, the consevative gamechanger who just made a climate bill likely
Climate Progress —
... And that is why he landed Sunday on a very public stage — The New York Times op-ed page — publishing an article about possible legislative compromises with Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who has taken his party’s lead in negotiations on the climate bill. ...
U.S. Officials More Upbeat On Climate Progress Before Copenhagen
Yale Environment 360 —
... before Copenhagen, and we’re hoping maybe to even have it on the floor (of the Senate).” Prospects for congressional passage of a bill placing a cap and a price on carbon emissions brightened over the weekend when a leading Republican senator, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, co-authored an op-ed article in the New York Times with Democratic senator john Kerry of Massachusetts saying that he could support cap-and-trade legislation as long as it contained provisions encouraging the development of nuclear power and offshore oil.
Meet Lindsey Graham, the Next GOP Maverick on Climate Change
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... have to be a true believer of drilling offshore or that climate change is real. You've just got to be willing to give and take." Graham's desire to trade energy provisions for his support on a major climate bill has won him audiences with leading Senate Democrats and the Obama administration. And while few of his fellow Republicans are willing to make such a leap, Graham is. And that is why he landed Sunday on a very public stage -- The New York Times op-ed page -- publishing an article about possible legislative compromises with Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat ...
Teabaggers erupt at Lindsey Graham: ‘Wussypants, girly-man, half-a-sissy’
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Right-wing activists across the nation are enraged by Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) decision to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to craft comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation. In an op-ed published in Sunday’s New York Times, Graham and Kerry discussed their agreement on a framework for mandatory global warming pollution reductions linked to government support for the nuclear, coal, and natural gas industries. The Natural Resource Defense Council’s Dan Lashof embraced the announcement as a “ ...
Sen. Boxer Green Lights Senate Climate Debate
WattHead - Energy News and Commentary —
... That effort to secure tough swing votes is already underway, with Senator Kerry penning a joint op-ed in the Sunday New York Times this past weekend with Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. In that op ed, Kerry and Graham spoke about turning America into "the Saudi Arabia of clean coal," expanding offshore drilling and restarting the nuclear industry ( ...
The US Chamber's Continuing Climate Credibility Crisis
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... Washington is abuzz about the joint New York Times oped by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC): ...
Cautiously Optimistic that the Climate Bill Is Gaining Ground
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... The game changed on Sunday. The New York Times op-ed written by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Senator John Kerry calling for clean energy and climate legislation transformed the debate from "maybe some time in the next year or two," to "likely this fall." ...
U.S. Officials More Upbeat On Climate Progress Before Copenhagen
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... adding, “Certainly before Copenhagen, and we’re hoping maybe to even have it on the floor (of the Senate).” Prospects for congressional passage of a bill placing a cap and a price on carbon emissions brightened over the weekend when a leading Republican senator, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, co-authored an op-ed article in the New York Times with Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts saying that he could support cap-and-trade legislation as long as it contained provisions encouraging the development of nuclear power and offshore oil . This piece originally appeared ...
Young Climate Warriors: Use Your Voice as well as Your Passion
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... It's true the bill has gathered new momentum in the last two weeks, thanks in part to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham announcing his support for it and to ...
Republican Senator Takes Heat for Cooperating on Cap-and-Trade
Green Inc. —
Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, is taking heat in his home state for teaming up with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts to outline a bipartisan approach to a Senate climate bill. In an opinion piece published in The New York Times last Sunday, the two Senators mapped out a possible compromise that would link cap-and-trade policies to increased nuclear power and offshore drilling. Environmentalists immediately ...
“E&E now finds that at least 67 senators are in play” on climate bill; Murkowski (R-AK) open to voting for “cap and trade”
Climate Progress —
... Elsewhere, sponsors got their biggest boost when Kerry went public with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on a partnership that they had been quietly working on since the summer. The senators pledged in an Oct. 11 New York Times op-ed that they would try to find compromise on several key areas, including nuclear power, offshore drilling and a border tax on items produced in countries that avoid high environmental standards. ...
Greens have finally got the Big Mo
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Remember the Senate clean energy bill that could never pass because it couldn’t get bipartisan support? It has bipartisan support now, and Lindsey Graham coming aboard has pushed Murkowski, Byrd, and Voinovich ...
67 Senators in play on climate bill
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the only Democrats listed among 11 “probably no” votes given their many comments questioning the environmental agenda of the Obama administration and Senate leaders. Elsewhere, sponsors got their biggest boost when Kerry went public with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on a partnership that they had been quietly working on since the summer. The senators pledged in an Oct. 11 New York Times op-ed that they would try to find compromise on several key areas, ...
Of Climate Change and Nuclear Power
Green Inc. —
... that energy efficiency will provide the biggest impact in the near term, followed by renewables. It also sees natural gas as a “bridge fuel” to be used while phasing out coal, oil — and nuclear power. Still, the recent Kerry-Boxer climate-change bill recently introduced in the Senate would provide strong support for nuclear power in the nation’s energy mix. And one of the United Nations ...
Sampling the competing flavors of the Senate climate debate
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... Graham and Kerry’s joint proposal calls for expanded use of natural gas and nuclear, offshore drilling, and protections for U.S. industry faced with competing against less-carbon-concerned foreign competitors. But for every voice ...
Who's to Blame for All the Dithering on Climate Legislation?
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... that harms the nation, saying, "I think it is unfortunate that the party of 'no' has now devolved to the party of 'no show.'" The boycott prevented the consideration of any amendments to strengthen the legislation. The vote to end the boycott this morning puts Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in charge of the bill's future progress in the Senate. GRAHAM'S ENGAGEMENT: In a New York Times op-ed last month, Kerry and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) discussed their agreement on a framework for mandatory global warming pollution reductions linked to government support for the ...
Health Care Bill Hailed by Obama, but Stupak-Pitts Abortion Amendment May Divide Dems in 2010
Red, Green, and Blue —
... that will be considered on the House floor in my career.” Likewise, they could not have anticipated that they would be left to cheer for a climate bill that not only includes huge subsidies for coal companies and nuclear plants and expansion of offshore drilling, but also does not auction carbon credits under its cap-and-trade program, instead handing the credits as allowances to utilities and other major carbon emitters. ...
Obama, Pelosi and Dems Face 2010 Fight After Health Care Bill Passes House
Red, Green, and Blue —
... that will be considered on the House floor in my career.” Likewise, they could not have anticipated that they would be left to cheer for a climate bill that not only includes huge subsidies for coal companies and nuclear plants and expansion of offshore drilling, but also does not auction carbon credits under its cap-and-trade program, instead handing the credits as allowances to utilities and other major carbon emitters. ...
Decoding the US Chamber's Climate Position
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... , the US Chamber neglected to endorse the principle which is at the absolute center of why Senators Kerry and Graham agree on the need for climate legislation. As they wrote in the New York Times: ...
Sen. Graham Censored for Climate Stance
TreeHugger —
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is one Republican who is forcefully speaking out about the importance of climate and energy legislation. He's co-authored an op-ed with Sen. John Kerry, rebuked his fellow Republicans for not seeing that a clean energy future is upon us, and made the rounds on the... ...
NYT: US Chamber Has Not Expressed Support for Any Proposals to Cap Emissions
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... "that the objectives outlined in [Senator Kerry and Graham's NYT] editorial can serve as a solid, workable, commonsense foundation on which to craft a bill," considering that the Senators stated their main purpose is "advocating aggressive reductions in our emissions of the carbon gases that cause climate change"? ...
NYT: US Chamber has not expressed support for any proposals to cap emissions
Climate Progress —
... “that the objectives outlined in [Senator Kerry and Graham's NYT] editorial can serve as a solid, workable, commonsense foundation on which to craft a bill,” considering that the Senators stated their main purpose is “advocating aggressive reductions in our emissions of the carbon gases that cause climate change”? ...
NYT: U.S. Chamber has not expressed support for any proposals to cap emissions
Grist - the Latest from Grist —
... which to craft a bill,” considering that the Senators stated their main purpose is “advocating aggressive reductions in our emissions of the carbon gases that cause climate change”? ...
