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  • Senate Hearing on the Need for Regional Solutions to Building Transmission to Renewable Resources

    Today (6/19), the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the challenges and regional solutions to developing transmission for renewable electricity resources.  Members in attendance at the hearing included Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Ranking Member Pete Domenici (R-NM), and Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), Bernie ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on June 17, 2008
  • Senate Fails to Advance Tax Extenders Bill Again; Future Uncertain

    Today (6/17), Senate Democratic leaders tried again today to pass a package of renewable energy and energy efficiency tax incentives as part of a broader tax "extenders bill."  Once again, the cloture motion (i.e. to limit debate and proceed to the bill) failed, by a vote of 52-44, largely along party lines. Sixty votes are needed ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on June 17, 2008
  • House Subcommittee on Energy & Air Quality to Hold Climate Hearing

    House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MI) announced in a press release that the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality will hold a series of hearings on climate.  The hearings will examine current legislative proposals including:H.R. 1590, the Safe Climate Act of 2007, sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on June 17, 2008
  • Boucher Introduces Carbon Capture and Storage Bill

    On June 12, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, introduced legislation to accelerate the availability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, entitled the Carbon Capture and Storage Early Deployment Act.  The bill, which has bipartisan support, would advance efforts to develop the ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on June 17, 2008
  • Dingell Writes CFTC on Concerns about Energy Market Speculation

    Today (6/17), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, John Dingell (D-MI) and Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Bart Stupak (D-MI), sent a letter to the Acting Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Walter Lukken, expressing concern over the lack of transparency to regulators and ...
    Posted to NEPPA (Weblog) by Staff on June 17, 2008
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