In a blistering attack, Nevada’s Republican senator John Ensign has launched an offensive against solar energy lobbyists, ahead of a crucial vote on renewable energy tax credits.
Breaking ranks with the the state’s increasingly important solar industry, Ensign said that efforts by the Solar Energy Industry Association to force his hand on tax breaks had in fact had the opposite effect of “personally alienating” him and other senators.
The Senate held a cloture vote this morning to bring to a close debate on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, a vote that would have allowed the amendment process to begin. After four days of conversation & delays, the bill died, failing to reach the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture by a vote of 48-36. Unable to move forward, Democratic leadership yanked the bill from the floor.
Senator Cardin speaks on the economic and energy independence benefits of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act bill.
Senator Jeff Bingaman delivers a speech on the Senate floor pointing out the flaws in the Senate Republican energy proposal and calling instead for bipartisan support of a plan to put more oil on the market.The Senate is to vote on a Republican plan that would, among other things, open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to drilling. In his speech, however, Bingaman says that there are millions of acres yet to be leased in areas poised for drilling. And, he says, millions of other acres have been leased, but no drilling has yet occurred.
Politicians are failing to comprehend the breadth of the US infrastructure crisis. Only disasters move our representatives to act — and in an election year, even those actions seem spotty at best and disingenuous at worst. The United States has much more than failing bridges to find, fund and fix. A comprehensive report by Dr. Denny Wilkins.
An Earth Day web video examining US Senator John E. Sununu’s dangerous record on global warming and his previous statements that human activity does not contribute to climate change.
ExxonMobil recently reported the largest quarterly profit for any corporation in American history yet the government still hands out subsidies to oil and gas corporations. Tell the Senate that this should be diverted to renewable sources of energy!
The longer it takes to build a nuclear waste repository, the more money goes into the hands of the nuclear power industry. Does this make any sense? After all, taxpayers are footing the bill.
New bipartisan legislation helps forests by reducing fire risk and will restore jobs to rural areas hard-hit by the recession. The bill could also boost localized biofuel production. Sounds like just what the country needs.
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Barbera Boxer, introduced legislation today that would direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant California a waiver under the Clean Air Act to cut global warming pollution from motor vehicles.
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In light of the recent spill in San Francisco Bay, this hearing examines the oil spill threats, risks, and vulnerabilities posed by large non-tank vessels.
Senator Thune (R-SD) makes remarks on the Senate floor regarding biofuels, including the Renewable Fuels Standard with goals for increasedrenewable fuels production.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee reports out S. 2191, the Lieberman Warner Climate Security Act. The Act would create a nationalcap-and-trade system for carbon emissions which are blamed for climate change.
