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Republicans Block Clean Energy and Green Jobs Bill
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Natural Gas
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Date: August 04, 2010 11:17AM
Republicans thwart watered down Democrat plans to boost green jobs.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid was yesterday forced to admit defeat in his attempt to pass any form of US energy bill ahead of Congress' summer recess, despite repeated moves to win over Republican opponents by watering down the controversial legislation.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Reid said that a vote on the proposed bill scheduled for this week would be delayed until September after the Democrats failed to secure the 60 votes necessary to pass the legislation.
Reid laid the blame for the decision firmly at the feet of Republican senators who refused to support the bill, despite the Democrat's controversial decision to drop those parts of the bill that would have imposed caps on carbon emissions and set targets for renewable energy generation.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid was yesterday forced to admit defeat in his attempt to pass any form of US energy bill ahead of Congress' summer recess, despite repeated moves to win over Republican opponents by watering down the controversial legislation.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Reid said that a vote on the proposed bill scheduled for this week would be delayed until September after the Democrats failed to secure the 60 votes necessary to pass the legislation.
Reid laid the blame for the decision firmly at the feet of Republican senators who refused to support the bill, despite the Democrat's controversial decision to drop those parts of the bill that would have imposed caps on carbon emissions and set targets for renewable energy generation.
Re: Republicans Block Clean Energy and Green Jobs Bill
Posted by:
Registered Voter
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Date: August 04, 2010 11:32AM
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703467304575383373600358634.html
...But a limited cap-and-trade proposal backed by Mr. Reid and the White House also failed to win over a cadre of conservative Democrats from industrial and coal states, who opposed the idea of imposing caps and higher costs on the use of coal and other fossil fuels.
Sen. Harry Reid says he wasn't able to line up enough support for a cap-and-trade bill.
Some also worried that the measure would put U.S. manufacturers at a disadvantage to rivals in China, now the No. 1 consumer of energy according to the International Energy Agency.
China's role in the U.S. debate over climate change cuts both ways. Opponents of capping emissions say enacting such policies would put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage to China, which has refused to cap its emissions. Advocates of capping emissions say that unless the U.S. puts a price on carbon, it will lose out to China in the race to develop the energy technologies —and jobs—of the 21st century. ...
Reality says, Senate Democrats do NOT support cap and trade. Call this a democrat failure for sure, and again, nothing to do with Republicans. They make it sound like they should just pass legislation because they are proposing it. Maybe they just don't need to pass anything right now.
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
...But a limited cap-and-trade proposal backed by Mr. Reid and the White House also failed to win over a cadre of conservative Democrats from industrial and coal states, who opposed the idea of imposing caps and higher costs on the use of coal and other fossil fuels.
Sen. Harry Reid says he wasn't able to line up enough support for a cap-and-trade bill.
Some also worried that the measure would put U.S. manufacturers at a disadvantage to rivals in China, now the No. 1 consumer of energy according to the International Energy Agency.
China's role in the U.S. debate over climate change cuts both ways. Opponents of capping emissions say enacting such policies would put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage to China, which has refused to cap its emissions. Advocates of capping emissions say that unless the U.S. puts a price on carbon, it will lose out to China in the race to develop the energy technologies —and jobs—of the 21st century. ...
Reality says, Senate Democrats do NOT support cap and trade. Call this a democrat failure for sure, and again, nothing to do with Republicans. They make it sound like they should just pass legislation because they are proposing it. Maybe they just don't need to pass anything right now.
If you can’t model the past, where you know the answer pretty well, how can you model the future? - William Happer Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics Princeton University
Re: Republicans Block Clean Energy and Green Jobs Bill
Posted by:
Gravis
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Date: August 04, 2010 11:41AM
is it possible this bill sucked? i mean, sure, it was blocked but does that automatically mean it's a good bill?
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."
"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."