Republicans Boycott Climate Markup; Boxer Moves Ahead Anyway
tnr.com 26 days ago — Okay, here's the latest on the ongoing mini-drama over the Senate climate bill. Earlier this morning, the EPW committee met to begin marking up the bill, and Republicans went through with their earlier threat to boycott the session—only George ...

Democrats advance contentious climate bill
msnbc.msn.com 24 days ago — Despite a Republican boycott, Senate Democrats pushed a climate bill through a key committee but the panel chairman said she's willing to amend it to attract Republicans.

The ‘Party Of No’ Becomes The ‘Party Of Slow’
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 21 days ago — Our guest bloggers are Daniel J. Weiss , a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and energy team interns Jaren Love and Michael McGovern. Senate Republicans are demanding lengthy ...

Senate panel approves climate change bill despite GOP boycott
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 24 days ago — Washington (CNN) - A Senate committee Thursday approved a major climate change bill despite a boycott by all of the panel's seven Republican members. Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 10-1 to send the measure ...

era EPA document on climate change released
latimes.com 10/14/2009 — Reporting from Washington - The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a long-suppressed report by George W. Bush administration officials who had concluded -- based on science -- that the government should begin regulating greenhouse ...

EPA putting the brakes on coal
hotair.com 10/26/2009 — Read this post »

Why Do EPA Employees Make More Than the Vice President?
stoptheaclu.com 9/24/2009 — -By Warner Todd Huston Here is a curious thing. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has somehow been given authority to pay some of its employees more than we pay the vice president of the United States of America! How is it that a mere ...

Barack Obama's Shadow Government
directorblue.blogspot.com 9/26/2009 — Everyone knows that President Obama has surrounded himself with a league of unelected Czars.Not so well known is the fact that these hidden, unaccountable bureaucrats are creating an immense set of regulations that could cost each American family thousands of dollars annually.While cap-and-trade ...

CLIMATE: Former EPA official details White House retreat on GHG regs
eenews.net 10/14/2009 — President Bush scrapped U.S. EPA's well-developed plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, power plants, petroleum refiners and other major polluters at the urging of White House insiders who argued such a move would tarnish the ...

What the EPA announcement did (and did not) say
grist.org 10/1/2009 — power plant The EPA made an announcement today that lots of folks seem to be misinterpreting as “proposed regulations on power plants.” That’s not what they are. What was announced today is the “tailoring” rule; it establishes that when the EPA ...

GOP boycotts start of Senate committee debate on climate change bill — CNN Political Ticker 26 days ago
GOP boycotts start of Senate committee debate on climate change bill. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Republicans boycotted a Senate committee hearing Tuesday on a major bill to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to ...

GOP continues boycott of committee debate on climate bill — CNN Political Ticker 25 days ago
Washington (CNN) - A Republican boycott of Senate committee debate on a major climate change bill continued for a second day Wednesday, frustrating majority Democrats who have threatened to move ahead despite the lack of a GOP presence. Only ...