Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Minority members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) followed through on their threat to boycott the scheduled markup of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S.1733) today, demanding more analysis of the bill before they...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
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...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
A group of prominent ecologists and climate scientists have an important article coming out in tomorrow's issue of Science, in which they call for "fixing a critical climate accounting error." The error is ignoring a significant source of global warming pollution...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
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...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
In a previous post I argued that the fundamental test for any climate and energy bill is the total reduction in global warming pollution it will achieve. The ACES bill passed by the House in June would reduce emissions by...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
As Senators Kerry and Boxer prepare to introduce a comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill in the Senate, a new analysis by researchers at UC Berkeley confirms that similar legislation can strengthen our economy and create jobs. The new study...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Earlier today NRDC released a Policy Brief summarizing economic analysis of clean energy and climate protection legislation that we have been working on for more than a year. We know that the Senate debate on this legislation will turn largely...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Senators returned from their August recess with lots of ideas about how they would like to change the comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill the House passed in June. This is a normal, and in many respects, healthy part...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Vegas is an ironic place to have a clean energy summit. There is nothing green about this concrete oasis in the desert. No vegetation, no water, no way to get here other than burning copious amounts of fossil fuel. (On...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
It is vital to enact comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year - to help deliver economic, energy, and climate security. As President Obama has said, the choice is "between a slow decline and renewed prosperity; between the past and...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
With the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) poised for an historic vote in the House of Representatives on Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency released a new analysis of the costs of implementing the legislation. This analysis finds that...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Rob Stavins of Harvard has posted a very useful analysis of the way allowance value is distributed in the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act reported by the Energy and Commerce Committee last week. Rob adds theoretical rigor and...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Last night I had the pleasure of watching Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) shepherd the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) through the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The motion to "favorably report" the bill passed 33-25 after four grueling...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
The comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, which is expected to move through the House Energy and Commerce Committee next week, establishes a limited number of carbon emission permits (aka "allowances") as the means to enforce a declining cap on...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Yesterday I had a chance to attend President Obama's speech to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). This is the first time since JFK that the president has addressed the Academy during his first 100 days in office and President...
