Submit a Story!
Votes
topics:

vote down flag
nytimes.com - 8/7/2009
10 Senate Democrats Warn Obama About Climate Bill
—
WASHINGTON — Ten moderate Senate Democrats from states dependent on coal and manufacturing sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday saying they would not support any climate change bill that did not protect American industries from competition from countries that did not impose similar ...
online.wsj.com - 8/7/2009
Senate Democrats Want Climate Bill to Protect Manufacturing
— online.wsj.com — STEPHEN POWER WASHINGTON -- Ten Senate Democrats whose votes are pivotal to the success of climate legislation... urged the Obama administration on Thursday to support levying tariffs on goods from countries that don't limit their greenhouse-gas ... (more) Senate Democrats Want Climate Bill to Protect Manufacturing

Comments vote down Breaking News: CBS News found this 8/7/2009found this
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com - 8/7/2009
Climate Bill Success = Treaty Failure?
— dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com — Can President Obama push a climate bill without scuttling a climate treaty?... (more) Climate Bill Success = Treaty Failure?
Comments vote down Earth2Tech found this 8/7/2009found this

Blog Reactions

Breaking News: CBS News:  Politics Today: Signs of Recovery?

Common Tragedies:  Climate Bill Success Can Equal Treaty Success, Even With Border Measures

Comments
Blog Reactions

Politics Today: Signs of Recovery?
Breaking News: CBS News — ... , "Obama's counter-terrorism advisor denounces Bush-era policies" CLIMATE BILL NY Times' John M. Broder , "Climate Bill Is Threatened by Senators" ...

Climate Bill Success Can Equal Treaty Success, Even With Border Measures
Common Tragedies — ... have spoken out against incorporating border adjustment measures in U.S. climate policy. Though there is great uncertainty about the economic and diplomatic value of leveling fees against nations who may not price carbon, 10 conservative Senate Democrats recently told the president such measures will be integral to their support of climate legislation.  The challenge now is walking the fine line between the objective of these senators—not just maintaining, but strengthening the House measures—and respecting the concerns of the ...

Related Content
Obama Implores Senate to Pass Climate Bill
abcnews.go.com 6/27/2009 — Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Barack Obama on Saturday urged senators to show courage and follow suit. The sharply debated bill's fate is ...
Senate Hedge Fund Bill
richard-wilson.blogspot.com 25 days ago — Senate Hedge Fund Bill Senate Introduces Bill Requiring Hedge Funds to Register Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd has unveiled a bill regulating the financial industry that would force advisers or hedge funds and other private fund managers to register with the ...
Senate Democrats Begin Drawing Road Map to 60 Votes on Climate Bill
nytimes.com 7/8/2009 — When it comes to climate change legislation, Senate Democratic leaders find themselves in a similar spot to where their House counterparts stood a few months ago: pledging passage of a comprehensive bill without a clear path on how to get there. ...
Senate climate bill would speed emissions reductions
usatoday.com 9/30/2009 — The Senate bill, scheduled to be introduced today, requires a 20% decrease in 2020 in the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming. The House bill passed in June requires a 17% cut in 2020. The main greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide, produced ...
Video: No public option in Senate bill
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 9/17/2009 — Senator Max Baucus unveiled a long-awaited healthcare overhaul that does not include a government-run option backed by liberal Democrats.
As Climate Bill Falters In Senate, Advocates See A Carbon Tax As 'Plan B'
onthehillblog.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — With the current cap-and-trade bill facing an uncertain future in the Senate after narrow vote to approve in the House, advocates once again see an opening for a carbon tax to deal with the issue of climate change.
Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)
thomas.loc.gov 7/22/2009 — To amend title 31, United States Code, to reform the manner in which the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is audited by the Comptroller General of the United States and the manner in which such audits are reported, and for other purposes.
Obama Opposes Trade Sanctions in Climate Bill
nytimes.com 6/29/2009 — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Sunday praised the energy bill passed by the House late last week as an “extraordinary first step,” but he spoke out against a provision that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept limits on global ...
Climate bill to raise costs 20%, EPA says | Cincinnati.com
news.cincinnati.com 8/4/2009 — WASHINGTON - Electricity prices would rise 20 percent by 2030 under climate legislation being considered in Congress, according to a draft study by a U.S. energy agency. The report, to be issued by the Energy Information Administration, also says that ...
Energy Companies Battle One Another on Climate Bill
nytimes.com 10/19/2009 — WASHINGTON — As the Senate prepares to tackle global warming , the nation’s energy producers, once united, are battling one another over policy decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades. Producers of natural gas are battling ...
The trouble with nuclear fuel: Struggling to hold up a bank — The Economist: Full print edition 8/6/2009
When narrow national interests obstruct a noble cause PAVED it may be with good intentions, but there are many twists and pot-holes along the road to a nuclear-free world. So many, in fact, that the path, tantalisingly opened up by Barack Obama, may ...
Regulating cannabis in California: Puff, puff, pay — The Economist: Full print edition 8/6/2009
Oakland’s new tax on drug users WITH the approval of 80% of its voters, Oakland last month became the first city in America to exact a sales tax on cannabis. Los Angeles, San Francisco and other Californian cities may follow along. It is a ...
Politics this week — The Economist: Full print edition 8/6/2009
Bill Clinton held a surprise meeting in Pyongyang with North Korea’s Kim Jong Il. During the visit the reclusive North Korean dictator pardoned two jailed female American journalists, who had been sentenced to hard labour. They returned to ...
Big drug firms embrace generics: Friends for life — The Economist: Full print edition 8/6/2009
Big pharmaceutical firms are learning to love their erstwhile enemies, makers of generic drugs ONE recent evening, the most powerful man in the world posed an existential question to those around him. “If there’s a blue pill and a red ...
Ripping Out The White House Lawn — The Big Money 8/7/2009
It turns out that Michael Pollan had been calling for the White House to have an organic vegetable garden since at least 1991, when the famously broccoli-hating George H.W. Bush was in office. I learned of this via the blog of the White House ...