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On February 14, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) sent a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, Henry Paulson, asking for more detailed information on the size and scope of the recent Clean Renewable Energy Bonds applications.  On February 8, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that 312 projects had been selected to be ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) plans to bring a stand-alone renewable energy tax package to the House floor for a vote, possibly as early as next week.  The bill, H.R. 5351, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, would boost incentives for clean energy and energy efficiency that are "paid for" by cuts in ...

As Mitt Romney ended his bid for the Republican nomination on February 7th, the overall debate on climate change shifted.  Now all front-runners in the Presidential race concur that climate change is real and is a problem that needs to be addressed.  Sens. McCain (R-AZ), Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL) believe that ...

On February 8, a federal appeals court struck down the Bush Administration's attempt at regulating mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants.  Under the Bush plan, utilities would have been given maximum flexibility, within a cap- and -trade program,  to reduce mercury emissions. The decision is a blow to the electric power ...

On February 14, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) joined Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) in introducing the American Renewable Energy Act, which includes long-term extensions of renewable energy and energy efficiency tax incentives and a federal renewable portfolio standard (RPS). The bill includes the Clean Renewable Energy Bond ...