Decarbonization
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            Climate Bill Analysis Part 16: EPA Projects Fewer Renewables Under Waxman Markey than Business As UsualThe Waxman-Markey climate bill (AKA the American Clean Energy and Security Act) would reduce the amount of renewable… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis Part 15: EPA Projects Coal Will Expand Under Waxman-MarkeyElectricity generation from coal will grow if Waxman-Markey climate legislation becomes law, according to a Los Angeles… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis Part 14: Waxman-Markey Puts Ratepayers at RiskAccording to a new analysis [pdf] by Public Citizen, the Waxman-Markey (W-M) climate legislation would inadequately… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 13: EPA Analysis Projects Waxman-Markey Would Not Require Emissions Reductions[Updated 6/18/09 with graphics that more clearly reflect banking of offsets under EPA's projected offsets scenario.]The… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 12: CBO Projects Waxman-Markey Would Cut Cumulative Emissions by Just 2%[Updated with correction, 6/18/09: Thanks to John Larson at WRI for alerting us to an error in our data. Our data is… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 11: New UCS Analysis Finds Waxman-Markey RES Won’t Increase Clean EnergyAccording to a new, as-yet-unpublished analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the combined efficiency… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 10: Smart Provisions Could Spur Clean Technology - If They Are FundedAs Breakthrough's analysis of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) has revealed, the climate… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 9: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Confirms Breakthrough’s AnalysisWith most DC-based environmental organizations at least grudgingly supporting the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 8: Waxman-Markey’s Non-Binding Emissions "Cap"Since we released our initial analysis of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), other… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely WeakenedAdvocates of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454, or "ACES" for short) argue that the… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 6: Strategic Reserve May Allow "Cap" to Rise by 10 PercentEvery climate bill, in the U.S. and abroad, contains provisions limiting how high carbon prices established by the… 
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            Joe Romm Tries to Shut Down Climate Bill Debate by Attacking Breakthrough InstituteBreakthrough Institute spent the past week analyzing the Waxman-Markey climate bill. We released several objective and… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 5: Foreign Offsets Receive 2.5 Times More Money than U.S. Clean EnergyIf all foreign offset provisions in the Waxman-Markey climate bill are used, the cap and trade regime would spend… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 4: Emissions Cap May Let U.S. Emissions Continue to Rise Through 2030[Updated 6/18/09 to more clearly explain and depict the potential banking of offsets.]At the heart of the nearly… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 3: Key offset limit eliminated, increasing domestic offset use, lowering allowance pricesThe original discussion draft of Waxman-Markey included a key provision that would have required domestic and… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 2: Clean Energy R&D Investment May Be 30 Times Smaller than President Obama's Budget[Updated 5/22/09: the ACES bill now includes a $10/ton price floor for auctioned pollution permits. The analysis below… 
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            Climate Bill Analysis, Part 1: Waxman-Markey Gives Nearly 5 Times More to Polluters than Clean EnergyThe landmark Waxman-Markey 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act was introduced in the House this afternoon (May… 
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            Cap and Trade Worked for Acid Rain, Why Not for Climate Change?One of the most often-repeated assumptions in the climate policy debate is that cap and trade, the preferred mechanism… 
 
        
     
        
    