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- Bills must wait for Congress.(News)(Brief article)
- Byline: Mike Verespej With Congress in recess until after the November elections, the window of opportunity is shrinking for legislators to enact two issues important to the plastics industry: funding for a 6-year-old program that speeds up the ap Byline: Mike Verespej ...
- Research articles 2006-10-09
- Senate Republicans dust off last year's alternate energy bill.
- SENATE REPUBLICANS have agreed to abandon their stalled energy bill and resurrect an alternative measure written by Democrats that originally cleared the chamber a year ago. Although the extraordinary political maneuver broke an impasse over SENATE REPUBLICANS...
- Research articles 2003-08-11
- Lobbyists pin hopes on GOP.(News)(plastics and manufacturing industry lobbying)
- Byline: Steve Toloken The somewhat surprising turn of Congress into Republican control has plastics and manufacturing industry lobbyists hoping for, and in some cases expecting, favorable results on a range of issues, particularly energy. After Byline: Steve Toloken ...
- Research articles 2002-11-11
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- Pork Alert: Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Bill
- WASHINGTON, June 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- With record high oil and natural gas prices, members of Congress should be focused on conserving energy and money. However, Senate appropriators have expended enormous amounts of time and taxpayer dollars pouring 735 pork projects totaling $1.5 billion in the fiscal 2006 Senate...
- Research articles 2005-06-30
- Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman release framework for Senate climate/energy bill
- by David Roberts Sens. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman held a press conference today to discuss the framework they're developing for a clean energy bill that can get to 60 votes in the Senate early next year. (Audio here .) Obviously the event was timed to...
- News items 2009-12-10
- Senate Panel Clears the Way For Expanded Oil and Gas Drilling
- Oil and gas drilling has been expanded in the eastern Gulf of Mexico under an amendment approved Tuesday by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. But long before oil and gas companies set up shop in this new extended area, the measure faces a number of hurdles and opposition...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Week in Oil & Gas: Punting in Copenhagen and Gulf of Mexico Leases -- Abridged
- The odds Congress would be able to pass climate-change legislation this year dimmed by the minute last week, as the political wrangling moved to the Senate Finance Committee and the debate focused once again on jobs and the economy. The bill's molasses-like progress through the Senate has rippled through the...
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
- Originally at the Breakthrough InstitutePromising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) unveiled a new framework intended to form the core of a "compromise" climate and energy bill capable of clearing the 60-vote...
- News items 2009-12-11
- Week in Oil & Gas: Peak Oil, a Climate-Bill Interlude and Devon's Big Sale
- Climate-change legislation took a backseat to the congressional debate over a health care bill last week. Meaning, chances of passing legisation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system this year have disappeared. But is it all that bad? Or unexpected?  Senate Democratic leaders said last week wrangling...
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Senate's chief climate denier makes Copenhagen cameo
- by Kevin Grandia The great leader of the Copen-deniers, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe R , showed up on the Danish island of Copenhagen for a fly-by press event here at the international climate treaty. Sen. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican, speaking at an impromptu news conference...
- News items 2009-12-17
- U.S. charm offensive at Copenhagen climate conference: Will it work?
- by Keith Schneider COPENHAGEN—Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, pushed through a crush of visitors at the U.S. Center late this morning, stepped to the podium in front of a packed meeting room, and became the first of President Obama's senior advisors...
- News items 2009-12-09
- Congress passes security/terrorism bills
- Before its late 2002 adjournment, the U.S. Congress cleared several bills of importance to the U.S. oil/gas industry. Regarding port security, the House and Senate cleared a bill that establishes regulatory authority for offshore LNG facilities and other offshore natural gas infrastructure nor including production platforms. The bill, titled the...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- U.S. Offshore Oil Ban to Expire
- Paul Killinger submits: According to Rep. David Obey, the U.S. House of Representatives will allow the 27 year old moratorium prohibiting the exploration and production of oil and natural gas reserves in the area known as the OCS Outer Continental Shelf to expire on September 30. A spokesman for...
- External links 2008-09-24
- Bigger Off-Shore Drilling Bill to Help Consumers at Pump; NCPA E- Team Scholar Urges Congress to Expand Off-Shore Drilling
- DALLAS, March 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee passed a bipartisan bill that expands oil and gas drilling, National Center for Policy Analysis NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett applauded Congress' efforts buDALLAS, March 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As the Senate Energy and Natural...
- Research articles 2006-03-09
- Greentech Guide to Cop15
- The upcoming Cop15 international climate negotiations in Copenhagen will have a massive affect on the developing greentech industry. How close countries get to agreeing on legally binding greenhouse gas emissions could determine the size of the various international greentech markets, be a lever for how much investment is pumped...
- News items 2009-11-30
- Eight Energy Projects the Stimulus Bill Could Fund
- The stimulus bill currently inching its way through Congress and Senate is intended to quickly add jobs, by pouring money into projects that can get underway immediately. Yet with over $800 billion poised to flood into the economy, it's surprising how hazy the details are. Most of the money is...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Grand Energy Debate Warms Up in Washington
- Paul Killinger submits: After all this time, the U.S. Congress is finally getting serious about taking steps they hope will help solve our nation's energy crisis and the skyrocketing cost of gasoline and related fuels. During the next three weeks a series of debates and votes will take place...
- External links 2008-09-13
- 2 bills would hurt oil exploration in Utah by adding new
- Just in the past week, oil has gone to $80 a barrel. Gas prices are bound to soar, and everything from shipping to manufacturing will suffer. It will no doubt cost more to heat our homes this winter. Families will feel the pinch in their pocketbooks. In the face of...
- Research articles 2007-09-30
- IPAA MUST REDOUBLE INFORMATION OUTREACH
- GENERAL SESSIONWith a winter of public discontent over high oil and natural gas prices driving energy politics in Washington to a ferocious pitch, speakers in the general session kicking off IPAA's 2005 annual meeting spoke of the challenges facing domestic independent producers in Congress and what IPAA is doing to...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Climate Change Bill Passes on Razor-Thin Margin, Tougher Battle Lies Ahead
- Maybe it was Al Gore's effort via telephone or Nancy Pelosi's chocolate-covered Dove bars. Heck, maybe it was all of those last minute concessions to please lawmakers in farm states. After weeks of negotiations and compromises and nearly seven hours of debate on the House floor, the American Clean Energy Act,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-27
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