"Markey Expands ACCCE Investigation"
"A House committee is investigating whether the coal industry's largest influence group failed to accurately report its lobbying spending to Congress."
Source: ClimateWire, 10/27/2009
Search results
"100 World Lawmakers Agree to Take Climate Action Now"
"COPENHAGEN -- Legislators from 16 of the world's major economies and most major political parties have agreed on key guiding principles to enact climate change legislation in their home countries that will drive the move to a global low carbon economy. Meeting this weekend, the lawmakers agreed to act right now in their own legislative bodies, even before the key UN climate deal in Copenhagen, now just six weeks away."
Source: ENS, 10/27/2009
"Obama Plans Big Smart Grid Announcement"
"President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 10/27/2009
This AM: "Senate Panel Kicks off Climate Bill Drive"
"A Senate committee on Tuesday launches three long days of hearings on a Democratic climate bill in a bid to further convince an international summit in December that Washington is serious about tackling global warming."
Source: Reuters, 10/27/2009
"Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on the Edge"
"The federal Energy Department will make good on a pledge for a bolder technology strategy on Monday, awarding research grants for ideas like bacteria that will make gasoline, enzymes that will capture carbon dioxide to counter global warming and batteries so cheap that they will allow the use of solar power all night long."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009
"Back Where Virus Started, New Scrutiny of Pig Farming"
"Many experts think pig farming presents a serious and overlooked risk to public health. Proof of that assertion -- indirect but indisputable, in the opinion of virologists -- is the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza."
Source: Wash Post, 10/26/2009
"Pennsylvania Tapped, Drillers Not"
Gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation of Pennsylvania is bringing an economic boom there -- even as oil and gas drilling has fallen dramatically nationwide. But the gas is tax-exempt in Pennsylvania.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/26/2009
"Obama Presses Case for Renewable Energy"
"Taking aim at business interests that have lobbied against an energy and climate bill moving through Congress, President Obama urged lawmakers on Friday to rally around the push toward using more renewable energy."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009
"Senate Global Warming Bill Is Seeking to Cushion the Impact on Industry"
"The Senate bill aimed at reducing global warming pollution will initially grant billions of dollars of free emissions permits to utilities and industry but will require the bulk of the money be returned to consumers and taxpayers, according to newly released details."
Source: NYTimes, 10/26/2009
"House Votes To Pass Solar Roadmap Bill by 3-1 Margin."
The House Thursday passed the Solar Technology Roadmap Act, which authorizes more than $2 billion to strengthen and coordinate research and development of solar power projects. Projects would be picked by an 11-member panel chosen by the Energy Secretary.
Source: Phoenix Sun, 10/23/2009
