WASHINGTON -- "The environmental and societal consequences of global climate change demand action. America's leading CEOs are committed to working with Congress, the administration and global business leaders to reduce and stabilize global greenhouse gas GHG emissions to levels that will address the risks of climate change.
WASHINGTON -- The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 3036) today failed to garner a 60 vote supermajority necessary to advance the legislation in the U.S. Senate. However, the 48-36 vote in favor of proceeding marked a significant shift in political support for addressing climate change, said Dr. Richard Moss, vice...
Middle East tensions and global terrorism eclipsed climate change as a topic at the G8 meeting in Calgary, Alberta, Canada last week, giving U.S. President George Bush a reprieve from having to defend his administration's often-criticized opposition to Middle East tensions and global terrorism eclipsed climate change as...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- PNM Resources' (NYSE: PNM) top officer told members of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the time has come to fully engage on the right design for a mandatory climate change program.
Global Warming Senate OKs climate change research Washington - A Senate committee has approved a measure that would set aside $60 million to establish a scientific research program on abrupt climate change. ...
Government Senate OKs Bodman to lead Energy The U.S. Senate confirmed Samuel W. Bodman as secretary of energy on Jan. 31. Bodman had most recently served as deputy treasury secretary and...
Democrats are planning to force decisions on the controversial issues of climate change and use of ethanol in gasoline by offering a slew of amendments when a key Senate panel resumes consideration of a broad energy bill this week. Democrats are planning to force...
A tussle between Republicans and Democrats seems inevitable when the Senate begins consideration of a comprehensive energy bill Tuesday, with members readying controversial amendments on issues such as ethanol use and climate change. A tussle between Republicans and Democrats seems inevitable when the Senate...
Five months after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Senate subcommittee on clean air, wetlands, and climate change held a hearing to discuss air quality issues and how they were handled following the towers' collapse and during the subsequen Five months after the attacks...
Byline: Bruce Geiselman The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bipartisan resolution expressing the Senate's belief that the United States must address global climate change through the negotiation of fair and effective international Byline: Bruce Geiselman ...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should implement new rules for the Renewable Fuel Standard RFS in a timely manner that is consistent with the goals of achieving energy security and addressing climate change priorities. The Biotechnology Industry Organization BIO today thanked Senators who sent a letter to EPA...
Offers Commitment to Work Cooperatively To Grow the Innovation Economy To Heal, Fuel, Clean and Feed the U.S. and the World WASHINGTON -- The following statement was issued today by Biotechnology Industry Organization BIO President and CEO Jim Greenwood following yesterday's historic U.S. elections: "On behalf...
Obama and McCain would make substantially different choices on climate change, energy independence according to William F. Weld, McDermott Will & Emery, LLP NEW YORK -- The 2008 presidential election will mean major changes in United States energy policy. William F. Weld, partner advising on government strategies and...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Set against the political backdrop of the upcoming Presidential election and the future of energy policy, energy security and climate change initiatives, the 31st World Energy Engineering Congress WEEC is poised to be the largest gathering of energy efficiency and sustainable decision-makers in the region. ...
What was most interesting about the throngs who came to see Barack Obama in Europe last week was never articulated in public. It’s that they adore him for America (the Bild tabloid called the German reaction “love at first sight”) but would never get to vote for someone like him...
On Monday, June 2, the U.S. Senate began deliberating on the Climate Security Act (S. 3036), in what many hoped would mark the start of a historic debate. But progress was thwarted by partisan bickering over judicial nominations and by procedural maneuvers, such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's insistence...
Your Inside Report From Capitol Hill Four and a half years ago, the U.S. Senate rejected a global-warming bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain and Sen. Joseph lieberman (I.-Conn.) by a decisive 43-to-55 vote. After the vote, McCain said, "We've lost a battle today, but we'll win...
The 19thAnnual Energy Efficiency Forum , sponsored by the U.S. Energy Association and JohnsonControls, Inc., offered spirited discourse on the potential for innovativeenergy and climate change policies under a new presidential administration.The event, held this week at the National Press Club, included a keynoteaddress by U.S. Secretary of...
It's essential that climate change be addressed at the federal level because of its adverse impacts on New Hampshire's economy, and even its way of life, business leaders from around the state said at a May 28 news conference in Manchester. At the event, held at Arms Park in...
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