Comments on: Senate energy bill starting point http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:35:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Doug P http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-72210 Doug P Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:34:35 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-72210 Can anyone shed some light on the fate of this bill? The house bill is getting all the attention, and to tell you the truth is a better bill. What can we expect to happen with the Senate energy bill, and what can we expect to happen to the house climate bill in the Senate? Can anyone shed some light on the fate of this bill? The house bill is getting all the attention, and to tell you the truth is a better bill. What can we expect to happen with the Senate energy bill, and what can we expect to happen to the house climate bill in the Senate?

]]> By: Mathers Rowley http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-57109 Mathers Rowley Thu, 21 May 2009 21:46:26 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-57109 This is redicilous! The biosphere is in danger of failing and this is the best we can come up with?!!! Our government fails us again. What will we do! This is redicilous! The biosphere is in danger of failing and this is the best we can come up with?!!! Our government fails us again. What will we do!

]]> By: Doug P. http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-55686 Doug P. Tue, 19 May 2009 15:15:44 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-55686 DOE is going to have trouble managing all of these new projects. It is already struggling to deal with allocating the recovery money. They are still under-staffed and struggling to fill positions. It is a complete who's on first... problem in the Secretary's office. Not to mention all of the Bush Administration holdovers. I am not sure the term "the change we need" applies to DOE, so far. The Waxman-Markey bill is a better piece of legislation in terms of taking concrete steps to curb emissions in the US. California is consistently the model they point to in the bill. Bingaman's bill is, as stated above, just a bunch of studies and R&D. But hey, they did set some efficiency standards for floor lamps! Yay Senate! DOE is going to have trouble managing all of these new projects. It is already struggling to deal with allocating the recovery money. They are still under-staffed and struggling to fill positions. It is a complete who’s on first… problem in the Secretary’s office. Not to mention all of the Bush Administration holdovers. I am not sure the term “the change we need” applies to DOE, so far.

The Waxman-Markey bill is a better piece of legislation in terms of taking concrete steps to curb emissions in the US. California is consistently the model they point to in the bill. Bingaman’s bill is, as stated above, just a bunch of studies and R&D. But hey, they did set some efficiency standards for floor lamps! Yay Senate!

]]> By: Wilmot McCutchen http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-35082 Wilmot McCutchen Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:16:04 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-35082 More money for DOE won't help. In December 2008, the lame duck DOE management awarded $80 billion in contracts to 16 favored companies. So no new technology can be developed, and no additional companies can get contracts. We'll just dig deeper in the dry hole of chemical capture and underground sequestration. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/news/news_detail.html?news_id=12150 More money for DOE won’t help. In December 2008, the lame duck DOE management awarded $80 billion in contracts to 16 favored companies. So no new technology can be developed, and no additional companies can get contracts. We’ll just dig deeper in the dry hole of chemical capture and underground sequestration.
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/ femp/ news/ news_detail.html?news_id=12150

]]> By: Julian @The Green Leap Forward http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-35036 Julian @The Green Leap Forward Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:44:42 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-35036 I am especially heartened to see consideration given to issues relating to the water-energy nexus. The water requirements of the energy supply chain, and conversely, the energy requirements of the water supply chain, have hitherto received very little attention. It is clear that so-called "watergy" issues provide a great platform for US-China collaboration, given the even more acute water-energy relationship in China. I have blogged about China's watergy problem here: http://greenleapforward.com/2008/11/22/watergy-chinas-looming-national-security-crisis/ If we dig deeper, we find that food/agro production forms a crucial third pillar of what I call the food-water-energy trilemma. Integrating agricultural policy into our energy and water policies is going to be paramount in dealing with our climate crisis. See another post I wrote: http://greenleapforward.com/2009/02/17/chinas-new-water-efficiency-targets-and-implications-for-food-and-energy/ I am especially heartened to see consideration given to issues relating to the water-energy nexus. The water requirements of the energy supply chain, and conversely, the energy requirements of the water supply chain, have hitherto received very little attention. It is clear that so-called “watergy” issues provide a great platform for US-China collaboration, given the even more acute water-energy relationship in China. I have blogged about China’s watergy problem here:

http://greenleapforward.com/ 2008/ 11/ 22/ watergy-chinas-looming-national-security-crisis/

If we dig deeper, we find that food/agro production forms a crucial third pillar of what I call the food-water-energy trilemma. Integrating agricultural policy into our energy and water policies is going to be paramount in dealing with our climate crisis. See another post I wrote:

http://greenleapforward.com/ 2009/ 02/ 17/ chinas-new-water-efficiency-targets-and-implications-for-food-and-energy/

]]> By: john http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-35005 john Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:58:38 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-35005 Boy, this is a retrograde and useless bit of legislation. Studies, roadmaps and R&D, Oh my! The illusion of action, and for what? To claim bi-partisanship. Well, as Florida disappears, Republicans and Dems can hold hands and sing Kumbiya. And when Wall Street goes under, perhaps they can celebrate a bi-partisan solution to our financial crisis. Fatuous fools, one and all. Boy, this is a retrograde and useless bit of legislation. Studies, roadmaps and R&D, Oh my!

The illusion of action, and for what? To claim bi-partisanship. Well, as Florida disappears, Republicans and Dems can hold hands and sing Kumbiya.
And when Wall Street goes under, perhaps they can celebrate a bi-partisan solution to our financial crisis.

Fatuous fools, one and all.

]]> By: ecostew http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-34941 ecostew Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:36:18 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2009/03/30/senate-energy-and-natural-resources-committee-bill-jeff-bingaman/#comment-34941 A related meeting: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/national_academy_of_sciences_americas_climate_choices/ A related meeting:

http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/ index.php/ csw/ details/ national_academy_of_sciences_americas_climate_choices/

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