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Staff to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has said that S. 3186, the Warm in Winter and Cool in Summer Act, may be considered on the Senate floor this week.  The bill would increase LIHEAP by $2.53 billion in FY 2008, taking it from $2.57 billion to $5.1 billion.  Fifty percent of the increased funding for LIHEAP under this bill would be ...

Senior Congressional staff are saying that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) will likely bring legislation to the Senate floor again next week to extend various tax incentives for clean energy development, individuals, and businesses.  The vote would be the last before the August Congressional recess.  So far, various ...

In a July 16 open letter to the next President and the next Congress, 27 former Congressmen, Cabinet and other high ranking officials expressed their concern about America’s long-term energy challenges.  The letter comes from the Institute for 21st Century Energy - a bipartisan group of former government officials concerned about U.S. ...

On July 17, Former Vice-President Al Gore delivered a speech in Washington, DC, calling for the U.S. to switch from carbon-based to carbon-free electricity within the next 10 years.  Such action would benefit the U.S. in two ways, he stated.  First, it would contribute to solving the climate crisis.  Second, it would make the U.S. ...

On July 15, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on legislation to improve the availability of financing for deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency technologies and to enhance United States’ competitiveness in this market.  Specific bills considered were S. 3233, introduced by Chairman Jeff Bingaman ...

Oilman and natural gas producer, T. Boone Pickens, recently released an energy plan which he believes will be the key to the future of U.S. energy.  He is calling for the construction of large wind farms throughout the central U.S.  The power generated by the wind farms would be shipped to cities and both coasts, eliminating the need for ...

The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a July 31 hearing on the state of the nation’s transmission grid, as well as the implementation of the 2005 Energy Policy Act transmission provisions, including reliability, siting and infrastructure investment.  Though the list is not final, witnesses will likely include ...