Posts Tagged ‘Waxman-Markey’
Big Picture on Climate Change
One thing that’s daunting about working on Climate Change is the multitude of factors which you need to consider. Crafting and sustaining legislation to address Climate Change will take place of most if this century and actually stabilizing the world’s carbon trajectory involves coordinating the entire global economy. So when you talk about the big [...]
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Tags: Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
National Energy Policy
There’s been a lot of talk regarding which environmental groups support and oppose Waxman-Markey. It’s easy to see why the current compromise bill is unpopular in some circles, the bill as written is far from ideal using most any criteria. At the same time the Waxman-Markey would launch a entire new trajectory on energy policy, [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
Here is Katharine Mieszkowski reporting for Salon.com on new climate change health impacts research:
Climate change is currently killing 300,000 people a year around the world, while seriously impacting the lives of hundreds of millions more, states a controversial new report from the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. The report, “Human Impact Report: Climate Change — [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Global Humanitarian Forum, UN Human Impact Report, Waxman-Markey
One major aspect about climate change that has been missing from main stream media accounts is the history of global warming science and how policy makers have responded so far. The green house effect has been known since the mid 19th century, with the role of carbon dioxide and combustion going as far back as [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol, Waxman-Markey
Flake Carbon Tax
Via E-mail Optimo directs me to check out the Flake carbon tax bill. Here’s the pitch from Rep. Bob Inglis & Dr. Laffer :
CONSERVATIVES don’t support tax increases that are veiled as “cap and trade” schemes for pollution permits. But offer us a tax swap, and we could become the new administration’s best allies [...]
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Tags: Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Jeff Flake, Waxman-Markey
Here is a Matthew Yglesias post from earlier this week discussing carbon auctions and the compromises being made to pass the cap and trade bill
But let me take some time out to express outrage about one aspect of the change that doesn’t really have a huge environmental impact, the decision to give away the carbon [...]
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Tags: Carbon Auctions, Climate Change, Global Warming, Waxman-Markey
It’s really quite disheartening to read something like this:
Prospects for using the Congress’s budget process to pass cap-and-trade legislation were extinguished on Wednesday night as the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a measure to bar that option.
The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), prohibits the “use of reconciliation in the Senate for climate [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Energy Policy, filibuster, Global Warming, Senate, Waxman-Markey
Climate Change Legislation
There has been a lot of chewing over the Waxman-Markey Climate Change bill, and most of it is positive. Depending on how you read it either “punts” or just leaves out the issue of auctioning carbon permits. This doesn’t strike me as the kind of thing that’s “OK”.
No carbon permits means nothing short of [...]
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Tags: Carbon emissions, Climate Change, Energy Policy, Waxman-Markey
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