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“Traffic jams, if they’re managed well, can actually be good for the environment. They maintain a level of frustration that turns drivers into subway riders or pedestrians.” Therefore congestion pricing isn’t necessarily that green. So argues a piece in the Wall Street Journal . John Kerry and Lindsey Graham offer a bi-partisan proposal from climate change legislation. More nuclear, they say. But also they want the US to be “the Saudi Arabia of clean coal.” (Ugh.) And also trade tariffs on st

If, like me, you have been confused, frustrated, dispirited or all of the above by the health care debate in Congress, get ready for more as the U.S. Senate prepares to take up climate-change legislation. The stakes are high. The debate will not be high-minded. Expect opponents of mandatory carbon regulation to distort the science and economics of global warming, predicting an economic catastrophe if the bill passes, even as environmentalists promise a green-jobs nirvana and warn of an environ

This article was originally published on Ecopolitology, a website covering the politics of energy and the environment. When the United States Congress finishes its work on health care this Fall, the next big challenge it will take on will be climate change legislation. Democrats in the House of Representatives barely secured passage of their climate bill in June, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). It was a wake up call for environmentalists that even getting watered-down

Guess what keeps environmentalists up at night? And worries me, too? If President Obama and the Democrats are struggling to find 60 votes in the Senate to pass domestic climate-change legislation, how on earth will they get the 67 votes needed to ratify a global treaty to deal with the problem, even assuming –and this is a big assumption — that the UNFCCC (that’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, for the uninitiated) can get a global deal done this winter in Copenha

| Sourced From Sfgate.com |Carbon dioxide will soon be declared a dangerous pollutant – a move that could help propel slow-moving climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters that a formal “endangerment finding,” which would trigger federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, probably would “happen in the next months.”Jackson announced her timeline even as top senators said they were del