Google’s director for Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Dan Reicher, told the Senate committee considering climate change legislation that “It is essential that Congress address this serious energy R&D short-fall by incorporating President Obama’s goal of $15 billion per year in federal energy R&D spending in final climate legislation.”
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If it weren’t for mixed messages, the US Senate wouldn’t be sending any messages at all. Yesterday, WaPo ran a story about how the Senate, once hot to trot on passing a climate change bill, had decided to rein it in. Climate legislation got its first hearing before Senator Barbara Boxer’s Environment committee on Tuesday....
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| The day before the Senate took up hearings on HR 2454, the Climate Bill sent over from the House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) fired up the troops with this call to arms: “As a legislator, everything is negotiable.” Just so. That’s exactly what has so many supporters of climate change legislation...
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