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Senate Fence Sitters

Senate Fence Sitters

March 10, 2010 @ 6:40PM

The New York Times had a great piece today, breaking down where the wavering Senators on comprehensive climate legislation park their interests.
Citing E&E, the article assumes there are 41 “yes” votes and 29 “no” votes in the upper chamber, leaving exactly 30 to be [...]

White House Climate Push

White House Climate Push

March 10, 2010 @ 12:27PM

While the Obama administration continues to push funding for clean energy jobs, from high speed rail to solar energy and job training programs, the president himself has also interjected himself into the legislative battle heating up in the Senate.
Yesterday Obama made himself a principle, inviting [...]

Climate News Update

Climate News Update

March 10, 2010 @ 11:28AM

The energy (pun intended) around clean energy and climate legislation is growing right now, spurred by a big meeting at the White House yesterday between Senate leaders and president Obama. The trio of Senators are pushing to present a proposal before the Easter break, meaning [...]

Senate Fence Sitters

Senate Fence Sitters

March 10, 2010 @ 6:40PM

The New York Times had a great piece today, breaking down where the wavering Senators on comprehensive climate legislation park their interests.
Citing E&E, the article assumes there are 41 “yes” votes and 29 “no” votes in the upper chamber, leaving exactly 30 to be [...]

White House Climate Push

White House Climate Push

March 10, 2010 @ 12:27PM

While the Obama administration continues to push funding for clean energy jobs, from high speed rail to solar energy and job training programs, the president himself has also interjected himself into the legislative battle heating up in the Senate.
Yesterday Obama made himself a principle, inviting [...]

Obama Meeting with Key Senators at White House

Starting about 30 minutes ago, President Barack Obama has many of the key Senators involved with climate legislation at the White House, to talk about what is coming in the next few weeks.
The meeting headlines the trio that has taken over the drafting of a [...]

72 Hours Becomes Six Days For Clean American Power

It was supposed to be 72 Hours for Clean American Power, three days of flooding phone lines and filling voicemail boxes, all in support of clean energy and climate legislation.
Instead, it became six days.
Starting on Monday, you, the youth in this fight, jumped the gun, [...]

Youth Take to Hill to Fight Dirty Air Act

Last week, amidst the fight for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation, many of our nation’s youth leaders converged on Washington to tell Senator Lisa Murkowski that her Dirty Act Act would hurt America now and in the future.
Murkowski, of Alaska, has a resolution [...]

Youth Action Engages, Leads Clean Energy Movement

Climate change is the issue that disproportionately affects future generations more than the current one. Today’s youth are the employees, soldiers and world citizens of tomorrow. And we know it. We are fighting for our future.

Murkowski: Alaska "Ground Zero for Climate Change"

Senator Lisa Murkowski’s office sent out a press release yesterday, lauding the opening of a Climate Science Center at the University of Alaska-Anchorage.
Murkowski called Alaska, “ground zero for climate change and natural choice,” for the center. She continued by saying she hopes it will, “add [...]

Rockefeller Tries to Block EPA

Rockefeller Tries to Block EPA

March 4, 2010 @ 12:15PM

Doing his best Lisa Murkowski impression, Senator John Rockefeller, of coal-laden West Virgina, introduced legislation today that would prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases for two years.
According to the story:
“We must set this delay in stone and give Congress enough time to consider [...]

Microsoft At Odds With Chamber Climate Stance

In a short, unannounced blog post yesterday, software giant Microsoft laid out its opposition to the climate change stance held by one of the trade groups it belongs to, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber is infamous by now for its actions to stop [...]

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