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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

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.This month the health care debate seems to be sucking most of the oxygen out of the policy atmosphere. Meanwhile, we’re still emitting levels of carbon dioxide that threaten the long-run health of the planetary economy. The House of Representatives took historic action in June, approving the Waxman-Markey bill (officially titled the American Clean Energy and Security Act, or ACES) t

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email newsletter. | Sourced From PRlog.org |PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 14, 2009 – The major drivers for CCS projects are regulations to reduce carbon emissions from developed countries. Kyoto Protocol, Chicago Climate Change Policy, US DOE’s Carbon emissions monitoring and reporting, US EPA’s Climate Leader’s Program and Global Climate Change Initiatives and US’ Clean Energy and Security Act have driven CCS projects in t

We’ve all heard about the little dust-up between Black Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Harry Alford and Democrat senator Barbara Boxer during an Environment & Public Works (EPW) hearing on “green” jobs. Boxer, the chairman of the EPW committee, was trying to refute a report commissioned by Alford’s organization stating that the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act — which I’ll call “cap-and-sap” — would actually cause a net reduction in jobs. So, marshalling her argumen

I’m so glad Al Gore pointed me in the direction of a great post on The Daily Beast in which Edward Markey takes Sarah Palin to task for an op-ed piece she wrote in The Washington Post . Beyond just tearing apart Palin’s general claims about “global warming” (she never actually uses the phrase herself) what stood out in his piece were his 10 points about what the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act does that is good. Which is nice - especially considering what Travis poin