Published: May 19, 2010
Tags: cap-and-trade bill, Carnegie Mellon University, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, global warming, greenhouse gas, National Academy of Sciences
Comments: 1
By Seth Borenstein
AP Science Writer
Washington (AP) — Ditching their past cautious tone, the nation’s top scientists urged the government Wednesday to take drastic action to raise the cost of using coal and oil in an effort to slow global warming.
The National Academy of Sciences called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap-and-trade [...]
Published: April 21, 2010
Tags: cap-and-trade approach, carbon dioxide, energy, energy bill, global warming, greenhouse gases, Obama, offshore drilling, pollutants
By Matthew Daly
AP Writer
Washington — White House energy adviser Carol Browner says she thinks Congress still has time to approve a climate and energy bill this year.
Browner called action on the long-delayed legislation “doable,” because members of Congress increasingly understand the need to develop clean energy that does not emit carbon dioxide and other pollutants [...]
Published: March 10, 2010
Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon controls, climate and energy bill, global warming, greenhouse gases, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, Obama, offshore drilling
By Matthew Daly
AP Writer
Washington — President Barack Obama has made a renewed push for a long-stalled climate and energy bill, urging lawmakers at a White House meeting to pass a comprehensive bill this year.
Fourteen senators from both parties — including several who remain undecided on the climate bill — met for more than an hour Tuesday [...]
Published: February 13, 2010
Tags: alternative energy, energy, global warming, NRC, nuclear, nuclear plants, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Obama, power, power plant, The Southern Co.
By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration’s planned loan guarantee to build the first nuclear power plant in the United States in almost three decades is part of a broad shift in energy strategy to lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce the use of other fossil fuels blamed for global warming.
President [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: cartoon, global warming, solar, wind
Published: January 20, 2010
Tags: bill, Doyle, emissions, global warming, greenhouse gases, Grothman, Huebsch, Midwest Governors Association, Miller, nuclear, power plants, renewable energy, Stolzenberg, Thilly, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute
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By TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State lawmakers started poring over a sweeping renewable energy bill Wednesday, establishing battle lines as the measure inches toward a vote.
The bill creates new renewable fuel standards, lifts Wisconsin’s ban on nuclear power plants and calls for new vehicle emission standards to match California’s. Environmentalists have praised [...]
By JENNIFER LOVEN and MICHAEL CASEY
Associated Press Writers
COPENHAGEN (AP) — President Barack Obama said the United States and four other countries, including China, reached a “meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough” Friday on a deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions after a frenzied day of diplomacy at the U.N. climate talks.
The agreement between the U.S., China, India, [...]
By Dina Cappiello
AP Writer
Washington — More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It’s a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama’s economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican claims that the actions would kill [...]
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
COPENHAGEN (AP) — As police cracked down on climate protesters, church bells tolled 350 times Sunday to impress on the U.N. global warming conference a number that is gaining a following, but is also awash in contradictions.
Conference negotiators went behind closed doors in talks to pin down an elusive new pact [...]
Published: December 11, 2009
Tags: Alliant Energy, bill, Donovan, Doyle, energy, Fisher, global warming, Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming, Plale, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, Reigstad, RENEW Wisconsin, renewable energy, Soletski, Task Force on Global Warming, utilities, Vickerman, Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council, Xcel, Xcel Energy
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By Paul Snyder
Lawmakers, unions and utilities agree they want Wisconsin’s renewable energy goals to create more jobs in the state.
But the common ground crumbles when the sides consider ways to make sure that happens. Utilities want trust. Lawmakers want percentages. Unions want work.
“Look, we’re in it for jobs,” said Tom Fisher, president and business manager [...]
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