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[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Senate weighs final push to move climate bill: The aide said the Senate's drive for a bill got a boost last week with President Barack Obama's announcement of an $8.3 billion government loan guarantee to help start expanding the nuclear power industry, a top Republican priority. "The administration is really putting their money where their mouth is," the aide said.

[Later On] The Ag lobby and climate change « Later On: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) put a hold on Thomas Shannon, President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Brazil. There was no question about Shannon’s qualifications, only about his fealty to the corn lobby: In his confirmation hearings, Shannon had the gall to suggest that eliminating import tariffs on sugar-based ethanol (mostly from Brazil) might be "beneficial."

[FreedomWorks] The Murkowski Resolution | FreedomWorks: Late last year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an “endangerment finding” that allows the agency to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, which was designed to regulate specific pollutants rather than something as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.  With Congress still assessing the potential economic costs of climate change regulations, Sen.

[Carbon Positive News] Carbon News and Info > Climate change news > Copenhagen, Kyoto ...: Crucially, the EPA is also the fall-back position for the Obama administration in implementing a federal emissions controls, should cap and trade efforts in Congress fail. Blocking this avenue is Murkowski's ultimate goal, .

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Climate Change Issues; Animal ...: Delegates unanimously approved a ”˜sense of the delegate body’ statement in opening their policy debate Tuesday morning, stating the Farm Bureau ”˜strongly opposes cap-and-trade proposals before Congress and strongly supports any legislative action that would suspend EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.’ Delegates then added comparable language to the group’s policy book.”

[Rose Law Group Blog] Obama's climate change Plan B: The mining association is continuing to work with Congress to draft what they feel is a better global warming bill, said the association’s spokeswoman Carol Raulston. Plus, they are hoping Congress steps in and tells EPA to back off, even if they don’t have separate climate legislation ready to go.

[Climate Progress] Obama announced strategic biofuels roadmap « Climate Progress: I haven’t read every single word in the report, but searching in the relevant sections I can’t find any reference to biofuel emissions. There is consideration of nitrogen from fertilizers, but basically it says that ways must be found to monitor, because it contributes a potent greenhouse gas that increases global warming –

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Former CRU chief admits warming may not ...: Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.  … The data is crucial to the famous ”˜hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

[Bahubindu - The Multipoint Blog] Bahubindu - The Multipoint Blog » Senate weighs final push to move ...: The aide said the Senate's drive for a bill got a boost last week with President Barack Obama's announcement of an $8.3 billion government loan guarantee to help start expanding the nuclear power industry, a top Republican priority. "The administration is really putting their money where their mouth is,"

[Stop Global Warming] Is the nuclear option really the answer to climate change?: "We failed to distinguish between the beneficial uses of the technology and the evil uses of the technology...Greenpeace is against fossil fuel, nuclear and hydroelectric power. Those three technologies produce over 99 percent of world energy.

[The Intersection] A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow | The Intersection | Discover ...: In addition to Bradley’s hunch (”there would be no anomaly for AGW to explain”), there could be multiple other, equally-plausible alternative hypotheses: temporal shifts in mechanisms, relative strengths in feedback loops, the entire presence/absence of individual feedback loops altogether, density-dependent changes in climate forcings, etc. A scientist would need to examine these, systematically falsify some of them, and then reach a conclusion on the implications of the MWP.

[Climate Feedback] Climate Feedback: Interview: David King: In terms of regulation, this would need to be addressed at a G20-level meeting, and it’s of such importance that it should be raised to that level. For now, we need to move rapidly towards an international interim ban on the use of aerosols in the atmosphere for geoengineering.

[Climate Progress] Misguided “cap and divide” bill by Cantwell and Collins is neither ...: We count on you to screen this stuff for us and WRI’s analysis is now in question as it appears it counts emissions reductions under the ACES bill in a perfect scenario and not so for the CLEAR Act. (I look forward to learning more about this.) Further, I don’t think a legislative alternative to what appears to be a dead approach (cap and trade with its giant givebacks to the coal industry and its proposed creation of a new, unregulated trading bubble) is in any way divisive.

[Change.org's Stop Global Warming Blog] Top 5 Reasons to Be Hopeful About 2010 | Environment | Change.org: althrough they're a decade overdue, the "endangerment findings" allow activists and lobbyists to call for climate change. With proof and documentation that greenhouse gases pose threats to humans, we have what we need to call for emissions standards and carbon capturing technologies.

[Big Government] » Cross-Examining the Climate Change Scammers - Big Government: [...] Rayner, Who’s to blame for Climategate?, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 27, 2009 Kurt Schlichter, Cross-Examining the Climate Change Scammers, BIG GOVERNMENT, November 27, 2009 Vincent Gray, Climategate: ”˜There Was Proof of Fraud All [...]

[Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog] November 9, 2009 - Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions ...: On or about April 30, 2009, Plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that EPA failed to perform a nondiscretionary duty to take action under section 110(k) of the Act on a revision to the state implementation plan (SIP) submitted by the State of California. Specifically, the complaint alleges that EPA failed to take action on two rules amended by the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (”˜”˜District’’) on September 21, 2006 and included in a SIP revision submitted to EPA by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on December 29, 2006: Rule 2020 (”˜”˜Exemptions’’) and Rule 2020 (”˜”˜New and Modified Stationary Source Review Rule’’).

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