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There is speculation that Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D-MT) is working to develop an energy tax package that will NOT include offsets targeting the oil and gas industry.
On February 27, the House passed H.R. 5351, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, which includes $17.6 billion in ...
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On Thursday, March 6, Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, along with Reps. William Delahunt (D-MA), James McGovern (D-MA), and Mike Michaud (D-ME) introduced H.R. 5547, the Consumer Protection and Cost Accountability Act. The bill is identical to S. 2660, introduced in February by six New ...
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This week, Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are planning to offer an amendment to the Budget Resolution to increase LIHEAP to the authorized level of $5.1 billion. President Bush proposed $1.7 billion for LIHEAP block grants in his FY09 Budget. The Senate Budget Resolution includes $2.5 billion for LIHEAP. ...
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On March 10, Lori Pickford of Morgan Meguire, along with a broad coalition representing large retail businesses, homebuilders, manufactures, environmental groups and utilities, met with key staff to Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) in an effort to garner support in the U.S. Senate to pass an energy tax incentives tax bill (see details above). Sununu ...
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On Thursday, March 6th, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued notice that it had denied requests for rehearing of the Mid-Atlantic and the Southwest Area National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (National Corridors) which were designated by DOE in October 2007 as areas of electricity congestion.
In dismissing the requests for ...
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According to a recent E&E Daily article, a federal climate change issue that has been simmering recently burst into open view with private utility executives sparring over how to allocate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions credits. On one side, utilities such as Florida Power & Light (FPL) and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), with ...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders recently sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Sam Bodman in which he criticized the announcement of a joint nuclear workshop to be organized by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Department of Energy. The purpose of the workshop to deal with "technical issues and research topics for potential extended operation of ...
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