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On January 18, the House passed H.R. 6, a Democratic bill sponsored by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) that shifts billions of dollars in royalties and tax incentives from the oil and gas industry to alternative energy sources. House Republicans tried unsuccessfully to block passage of the bill, arguing they were cut ...
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Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that she will create a select committee devoted exclusively to global warming within the next two weeks. The new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will advise and make recommendations but will not have legislative authority. This was done primarily as a ...
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On Monday, a diverse and politically powerful coalition of industry and environmental groups released a report and called for the adoption of mandatory caps on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and policies that "strongly discourage further construction of stationary sources that cannot easily capture CO2 emissions for geologic ...
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On Monday, January 22, Reps. John Olver (D-MA) and Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD.), introduced the first global climate change bill in the House, which very similar to the Lieberman -McCain bill in the Senate. The House bill, titled the "Climate Stewardship Act" differs from the Senate version in that it calls for a more aggressive set of ...
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On January 22, Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) with the support of all Senate Energy Committee Democrats, unveiled a proposal that would mandate utilities generate 15 percent of their energy from renewable resources by 2020, a higher target than was approved by the Senate in 2005. During consideration of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the ...
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On Janurary 22, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Dan Inouye (D-HI), with the support of six Committee Democrats, announced a new bill that would increase corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) levels to 35 miles per gallon (mpg) by the 2019 model year. The legislation applies to both passenger cars and light trucks, and would direct the ...
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At a press conference held on Monday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) joined Sens. John Warner (R-VA), Norm Coleman (R-MN) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) in outlining a bi-partisan resolution opposing troop increases, and instead calls on the president to consider all options and alternatives for achieving our strategic goals. It does not however do ...
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