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[Epoch Times | All headlines] Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer [D-CA] and John Kerry [D-MA] introduced a new climate change bill to the Senate last Wednesday, bringing mixed reactions from Democrats and Republicans, manufacturers, and labor unions.

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[RealClearPolitics - Politics Nation] RealClearPolitics - Politics Nation - Kerry, Boxer Introduce New ...: The American Clean Energy and Security Act that passed the House in June lays the groundwork to achieve these goals through policies that invest in clean energy technologies and infrastructure, and curb the carbon pollution that threatens our economy, security and health. I look forward to the Senate's consideration of the Kerry-Boxer proposal as another step forward in investing in our clean energy future and asserting our leadership in new energy technologies."

[FarmPolicy.com] FarmPolicy.com » Blog Archives » Climate Legislation; Dairy; House ...: “The EPA and Senate actions stoked optimism among environmentalists and others. Some had voiced concern that reaching agreement in Copenhagen could be difficult if the Senate failed to act, because other countries might conclude that the United States was not prepared to take the steps it has urged other developed nations to take.”

[The United States Agricultural & Food Law and Policy Blog] Second Update: Some View Senate Climate Bill with Skepticism: I have expressed my serious reservations about a cap-and-trade system and its potential impact on the cost of fuel, feed and fertilizer, as well as food for Arkansans. As Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, I am interested in holding more oversight hearings on climate change and will continue working with my Committee members, Senate colleagues, and stakeholders."

[Columns] Climate Change Legislation: A Man-Made Unnatural Disaster ...: The equally predictable reaction to the latest California job news from carbon-tax fans will be, “Well, if we had a national carbon tax, these jobs wouldn’t be fleeing our state for less environmentally accountable [read ‘more welcoming’] business climates.” Uh, right.

[Change.org's Stop Global Warming Blog] Inhofe Watch: Senator assembling 'truth squad' for December ...: During the GOP's most recent majority in Congress, Inhofe used his chair position on the EPW to stall rational, fact-based progress of climate change policy in favor of delay. He's also famously compared enviro-regulation advocates to Nazis and calling global warming a United Nations conspiracy.

[Community Blogs at ProgressOhio] Progress Ohio | Dave Harding's Blog: Countdown To Copenhagen ...: American Power Act by Senators Kerry and Boxer the race is on in the U.S. Senate to get us on the road to a clean energy economy and tackle global warming. We applaud the two senators' leadership, and recognize that this bill reflects some important improvements over the legislation that recently passed the House of Representatives, particularly with respect to ensuring we have the ability to clean up old and dirty coal plants, and put an end to the expansion of dirty coal technologies.

[Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion] Cleantech Investment: 3rd Quarter Sizzles, Courtesy of Washington ...: "The net [investor] reaction is to follow the DOE where it acts and otherwise play a cautious hold game ”” not ideal at all for the cleantech industry," Stephan Dolezalek, managing director and cleantech group leader at VantagePoint Venture Partners, told the Cleantech Group.

[The Swamp] EPA greenhouse gas regulations coming: The Swamp: The proposed regulation would apply to large-scale industrial sources of the heat-trapping gases which scientists blame for climate change but not to smaller sources, such as new schools, as some critics of EPA action had feared. It will force new - or substantially modified - industrial emitters to "demonstrate the use of best available control technologies and energy efficiency measures" to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, according to the EPA.

[Energy/Enviro Experts] National Journal Online -- Energy/Enviro Experts -- Should EPA Bow ...: I begin by answering these questions with questions: Why would anyone oppose a full, open, transparent hearing to determine whether evidence supporting the most consequential regulatory decision of our time—affecting schools, hospitals, farms, apartment buildings, restaurants, nursing homes, and thousands of other sources—is up-to-date, accurate, and reflective of the best available scientific research? And why wouldn’t the Obama Administration, and its supporters in the environmental community, faced with a decision potentially imposing billions of dollars of costs on consumers and small businesses, favor a process that ensures maximum public participation and stakeholder input?The answer is simple: in dismissing the Chamber’s petition as “frivolous,” EPA has made clear that, even before finalizing its regulation and considering thousands of public comments, it has already decided the question of endangerment. 

[INFRASTRUCTURIST] Other Nations Expand Nuclear Power While America Keeps Watching ...: The French get 70% of their energy from recycled fuel rods, which use 96% of the energy in that rod, and shorted its radioactive lifespan. French have never had a melt down, never had a problem and have chopped their emissions by a ton from relying on the pragmatic solution to climate change and energy - nuclear.

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