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Weekly Mulch: Throwing Tantrums Over Kerry-Boxer
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By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger
This week the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held three hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill and, as David Roberts reports for Grist, Republican Senators had an “adolescent tantrum” about the cost of emission reductions. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Congressional Budget Office, Energy Information Administration and other organizations have extensively debunked this line of debate.
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Weekly Mulch: A Bipartisan Climate Bill
By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger
The U.S. might not have to go to December’s climate change talks in Copenhagen empty handed. Two weeks after Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) unveiled a new draft of the climate change bill, Kerry and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced their bipartisan partnership to pass climate change legislation in an op-ed for the New York Times. By working together, the two hope to appeal to their respective party’s interests and help the climate change bill get 60 votes in the Senate. (more…)
