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On Wednesday October 10, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced that leadership would try to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the pending energy bills without formally going to conference with the Senate (i.e. negotiations would be behind "closed doors"). One of the reasons cited for the unusual move was that Senate ...
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According to recent trade press (Restructuring Today 10/23), the COMPETE Coalition, an alliance of investor-owned utilities, large industrial customers and others that favor wholesale and retail electricity competition, issued a press release announcing the hired of former Mayor of Dallas, Ron Kirk to be a co-chair of the coalition. He joins ...
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On Wednesday, October 10, the EXTEND coalition met with Arshi Siddiqui, Tax Policy Advisor for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to encourage the inclusion of significant energy efficiency tax incentives in the final "energy independence" bill. The EXTEND coalition includes a broad cross-section of industries that are encouraging ...
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On October 17, the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), the national trade association representing investor-owned utilities, sent a letter to the Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, Barbara Boxer (D-CA), regarding climate legislation. The utilities asked that any global warming bill include an economic "safety ...
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On October 18th, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) introduced their long-anticipated climate change bill, "America's Climate Security Act of 2007." The Senate Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection, which Sen. Lieberman chairs, will hold a legislative ...
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On October 19th, the Cape Cod Commission denied, by unanimous decision, a proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound. The Commission debated the issue for about an hour before voting unanimously against the proposal. A subcommittee of the Commission was assigned the task of reviewing the project and it recommended that the project be denied ...
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