gristmill.grist.org - 3/23/2009
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Muckraker: Grist on Politics Congressional leaders want to combine energy and climate provisions into one big bill this year, rather than moving a few smaller bills on the issues. But while some on Capitol Hill are cheering this as a way to expedite the process, others are skeptical about the ...
gristmill.grist.org - 3/24/2009
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Muckraker: Grist on Politics The Environmental Protection Agency
told the White House on Friday that climate change
is a danger to public welfare -- a move that takes the administration a step closer to regulating planet-warming greenhouse gases. The ...
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Endangerment ahead | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
gristmill.grist.org - 3/18/2009
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Throughout the United States, water management has been
approached primarily as an engineering problem, rather than an
economic one. Water supply managers are reluctant to use price increases as water conservation tools, instead relying on non-price ...
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Misconceptions about water pricing | Gristmill: The ...
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Obama's Green Agenda
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... order or in case whatever compromise bill worked out is so embattled it will need the protection of reconciliation to get through.
But what of energy? The rationale behind including energy is tougher. First, there's a debate on what should even be included in the energy bill -- should the 2020 renewable energy incentives and expansion of the electricity grid for alternative energies be married to the proposed carbon cap-and-trade/green jobs bill? Some say yes, others are more dubious. Some environmentalists worry, as I note, that without a place in budget ...
'Green News Report' - March 26, 2009
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Democrats to shelve fast-track process on climate bill, for now
Nice package: Will combining climate and energy into one big bill help or hurt the climate cause?
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