Articles about Senate
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Cantwell-Collins Calls the Question on Offsets
SummaryUntil just recently, carbon offsets appealed to environmentalists, polluting firms, farmers, timber interests,…
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What Comes After Cap and Trade?
Republican Scott Brown's upset victory over Democratic incumbent Martha Coakley for the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat…
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The End of Magical Climate Thinking
Originally published at Foreign PolicyThere was good reason to be hopeful in January of 2009 that the election of…
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Collection: Breakthrough Institute Analysis of Congressional Climate Bills
The Breakthrough Institute team works to publish quantitative analysis of Congressional climate and clean energy…
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Energy and Climate
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New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
Promising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry…
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Energy and Climate
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The Innovation Consensus: $15 Billion for Clean Energy R&D
$15 billion. That is the figure at the heart of a growing consensus of energy innovation experts, all calling for…
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Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill’s Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations
The latest draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" would invest less than $10 billion of…
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Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown
Late Friday night, Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee released a new draft of the…
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Kerry-Boxer Carbon Price Will Remain at Price Floor According to First Modeling of Draft Bill
Initial modeling of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill (full text), the Senate sibling of the House-passed…
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Blast from the Past: Romm’s Critique of the Waxman-Markey Blueprint
Here is Joseph Romm of ClimateProgress writing about the United States Climate Action Partnership proposal in January…
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Senator Brown, Leading Energy Think Tanks Push for More Research Investment and New National Institutes
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and leading DC-based think tank Third Way are the latest political figures to issue a call…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 10: Smart Provisions Could Spur Clean Technology - If They Are Funded
As 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 Analysis
With most DC-based environmental organizations at least grudgingly supporting the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely Weakened
Advocates of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454, or "ACES" for short) argue that the…
