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Waxman Said to Offer Free Permits in Climate Talks By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Daniel Whitten and Lorraine WoellertMay 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, sponsor of a plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, is offering power producers and companies such as steelmakers free pollution permits, said people familiar with the negotiations. Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the House Energy

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From The Washington IndependentFour Democratic senators demanded late last month that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency must go. Their call for EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson's resignation -- after eight months of looking into his actions as agency chief -- is largely due to Jason K. Burnett, Johnson's former deputy in developing global warming policy.Since resigning in May as

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WASHINGTON — Montana's rural electric cooperatives could get a break from a nationwide crackdown on greenhouse gas emissions for more than two decades, thanks to U.S. Sen. Max Baucus.Montana's senior senator inserted a provision into a climate change bill pending in Congress that would give the rural electric co-ops in his state until 2035 to fully curtail their greenhouse gas emissions. The bill

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[from the Washington Post]Although the Environmental Protection Agency joined in a legal settlement this week to force the largest power-plant pollution cleanup in U.S. history, the Bush administration signaled in the agreement that it has no intention of taking enforcement actions against the utility for the same kind of Clean Air Act violations in the future.The language of the settlement

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from today's Washington PostDemocrat Stuck Between Industry and EnvironmentBy Alec MacGillis and Steven MufsonWashington Post Staff WritersSunday, June 24, 2007; Page A01BENTON, Ill. -- In 2004, as a state legislator running for the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama came to this small town 300 miles from Chicago to pledge support for southern Illinois' struggling coal country.More than just an obligatory

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Boucher blows hot airHis reasons for blocking California emissions standards just don't make any sense.Rep. John Dingell's role in pushing a bill to limit the ability of California and other states to cap greenhouse gas emissions from cars is easy enough to figure out.Dingell represents Detroit, after all, and carmakers are big donors.But why is Southwest Virginia's Rep. Rick Boucher joining

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from the Eugene (OR) Register-Guard:http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/06/07/ed.edit.emissions.phn.0607.p1.php?section=opinionLead - or let statesA Register-Guard EditorialPublished: Thursday, June 7, 2007If neither Congress nor the Bush administration are willing to enact strict regulation of tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases, they should step aside and let California, Oregon and 10

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http://adage.com/article?article_id=116419Going Green? Plant Deep RootsInconvenient Truth: Marketers' Environmental Claims Need Substance or It's Little More Than FertilizerBy Mya Frazier Published: April 30, 2007COLUMBUS, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- The greening of business is a good thing: It improves the chance of bequeathing an inhabitable world to future generations; provides myriad revenue

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Darren Samuelsohn, E&ENews PM senior reporterA strong economy and an unusually warm summer drove a 0.8 percent increase in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2005, U.S. EPA reported today.Domestic emissions of the six primary greenhouse gases in 2005 were equal to 7.26 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. That is an increase from the 7.2 billion metric tons EPA reported a year ago for 2004 (

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Courts Deal Setbacks To Bush Environmental PoliciesBy JEFF NESMITHCox News Service--Friday, April 06, 2007WASHINGTON — Lawyers who have the job of defending President Bush's environmental policies have had it rough this year.The Supreme Court's ruling Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency must consider regulating greenhouse gases in automobile exhaust was one of a series of recent

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WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized rules directing 20 U.S. states to slash levels of tiny particles spewed by power plants, cars and other sources by 2010. About 88 million people in more than 200 U.S. counties -- mostly clustered around big cities like Los Angeles and New York -- live where "particulate" levels exceed legal limits

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http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2007/03/27/coal_interests.htmlCoal Interests Fight Polar Bear ActionBy Jeff Nesmith Tuesday, March 27, 2007An organization representing companies that mine coal and burn it to make electricity has called on its members to fight the proposed listing of the polar bear as an endangered or threatened species.“This will

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Effort to cut emissions premature, AEP saysCongress plans bill to combat global warmingWednesday, March 21, 2007 By Jack TorryTHE COLUMBUS DISPATCHWASHINGTON -- The leader of American Electric Power yesterday warned that congressional efforts to force U.S. industry to reduce greenhouse gases before the technology is available will accomplish "very little short of a nice little sound bite."

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(from today's Greenwire):New regulations targeting air emissions from lawnmowers, leaf blowers and other small engines are undergoing review at the White House Office of Management and Budget, with expected final action set for November, according to information sent to the White House by U.S. EPA.In its filing, EPA provides some of the most detailed information to date on how it plans to

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CORPORATE CRIME REPORTERCoal Companies Globally Warm Democrat Boucher’s Bank Balance21 Corporate Crime Reporter 12, March 12, 2007The global warmth of cold hard cash.The so-called reform-minded Democrats.The flow of dirty money from the coal industry to House Democrats – just as they are about to craft legislation to “address” global warming.Address the ball, Rick Boucher.Rick Boucher (D-Virginia

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CQ TODAY – ENVIRONMENTFeb. 2, 2007 – 7:17 p.m.EPA’s Chief in the Crosshairs of Three Committees Examining Agency’s RecordBy Manu Raju, CQ StaffEPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson will be in the hot seat for the first time Tuesday before a hostile Democratic Congress critical of his agency’s record over the past six years.After facing little congressional scrutiny from a Republican-controlled

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The Wall St. JournalBy JOHN J. FIALKA and KATHRYN KRANHOLDFebruary 13, 2007; Page A2General Electric Co., which is running a marketing campaign promoting itself as environmentally friendly, has pushed to weaken smog controls for railroad locomotives in rules about to be proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.The rules, which could take effect between 2011 and 2017, are designed to cut

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The Green Gripe With Obama: Liquefied Coal Is Still . . . Coal.By Elizabeth WilliamsonWashington Post Staff WriterJanuary 10, 2007Who, but who, would soil the environmental reputation of Barack Obama?The Democratic senator from Illinois gets stellar marks from greens. Just a few months ago he was calling global warming "real," saying: "It is here. . . . We couldn't just keep burning fossil fuels

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Richard Long has fought pollution, polluters for over a decade at the EPABy Todd Hartman, Rocky Mountain NewsJanuary 3, 2007After a rough-and-tumble decade in perhaps the toughest environmental policy job in the Rocky Mountain West, the EPA's Richard Long is punching out.The head of air programs for more than a decade at the Environmental Protection Agency's regional office in Denver, Long has

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AIR POLLUTION: Sen. Boxer 'dismayed' by EPA rule change on major sourcesDaniel Cusick, Greenwire reporterThe incoming chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee said she is "dismayed" by the Bush administration's decision to revise air toxics standards for "major source" polluters and pledged to subject U.S. EPA's proposal to tough questioning when the new Congress convenes

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[above: Joe Barton and intern] CLIMATE: Rep. Barton vows to fight global warming legislationDarren Samuelsohn, E&ENews PM senior reporterRep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) said today he intends to block Democrats from passing a mandatory federal cap on heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions."I will be an active part of any leadership effort to prevent it passing in the House," the outgoing chairman of the

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The Other Climate DisasterFrank O'DonnellNovember 30, 2006Frank O'Donnell is president of Clean Air Watch, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization aimed at educating the public about clean air and the need for an effective Clean Air Act.Thanks to yesterday’s arguments at the Supreme Court, there’s been a great deal of media scrutiny this week of the Bush administration’s industry-friendly approach

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ReutersNov 17, 2006 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Virginia Sen. John Warner on Friday said he wants to be the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment Committee, setting the stage for a showdown with the current chairman for top status on the panel that next year could weigh mandatory caps on carbon dioxide.Environmental groups say Warner's bid to be the ranking Republican member could raise the

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Bush administration switched positions on Duke Energy caseWritten by PETE YOSTMonday, 30 October 2006WASHINGTON (AP) _ When the Bush administration lost an important air pollution case before an appeals court last year, it did an interesting about-face and sided with the electric power company that won.Unfortunately for the administration, environmental groups persuaded the Supreme Court to take

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Is pressurized coal the solution?By MICHAEL STOTHARD UPI Energy CorrespondentWASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Montana Gov. Schweitzer says pressurized coal is the key to weaning America off its 4 billion barrel a year dependence on oil suppliers such as Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, which many perceive as unreliable."You can make fuel from coal rather than import it from dictators," he said. "

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