{"id":1331,"date":"2009-11-05T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2009-11-05T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T15:03:24","slug":"a-wild-ride-big-news-from-the-clean-energy-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/11\/05\/a-wild-ride-big-news-from-the-clean-energy-front\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wild Ride: Big News from the Clean Energy Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened quickly in the clean energy world. Here&#8217;s a wrap-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yesterday was day two of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee&#8217;s markup process for the Kerry-Boxer bill. Republicans once again boycotted the proceedings, although they made a couple of cameo appearances. The markup continues today &#8212; you can see it on C-Span. And, Greenwire is now reporting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has given EPW Chairwoman Barbara Boxer<strong> &#8220;the green\u00a0 light&#8221; to move ahead without the GOP.<\/strong> Reid reportedly told Boxer to advance global warming legislation on Tuesday, November 10,\u00a0 if Republicans have not ended their boycott by then.<\/li>\n<li>At the same time, <strong>three strange bedfellows<\/strong> &#8212; Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) announced they would work on a &#8220;dual track&#8221; to create a climate bill that would get 60 Senate votes. Our Tony Kriendler says the three have given &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=8998093\">new life to a bipartisan process<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is making <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/djf500\/200911031723DOWJONESDJONLINE000674_FORTUNE5.htm\">tentative gestures of support in the general direction of a climate bill<\/a>. The Chamber, which has been slammed by the media and abandoned by some of its own members since saying we need a &#8220;Scopes monkey trial&#8221; on climate science, said today that it &#8220;supports most of the principles outlined&#8221; in that Kerry-Graham-Lieberman proposal. Details are still fuzzy, but Tony Kreindler says: &#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to see the Chamber recognize that there&#8217;s a bipartisan path forward to a cap on emissions. If they support it, that would be truly a first.&#8221; Indeed, we at EDF would all be thrilled if the Chamber&#8217;s new tone were followed up with real action.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A new group launched<\/strong> today &#8220;to support action to limit greenhouse gases and counter the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.&#8221; American Businesses for Clean Energy includes high profile companies &#8212; including some who quit the Chamber because of its stance on climate change. Members include utilities &#8212; New Jersey&#8217;s Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. (PSEG), Florida&#8217;s FPL Group Inc. (FPL) and New Mexico&#8217;s PNM Resources (PNM) &#8212; as retailer Gap Inc. and Colorado ski resort operator Aspen Skiing Co. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20091104-716161.html\">More from the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And New York University School of Law&#8217;s Institute for Policy Integrity released <a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/04\/economists-concur-on-threat-of-warming\">a new poll of 144 economists<\/a>. It found a whopping &#8220;94% believe the <strong>U.S. should join climate agreements<\/strong> to limit global warming,&#8221; and that &#8220;significant benefits from curbing greenhouse-gas emissions would justify the costs of action.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot has happened quickly in the clean energy world. Here&#8217;s a wrap-up: Yesterday was day two of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee&#8217;s markup process for the Kerry-Boxer bill. 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