Posted by Reede Stockton in Politics & Economics on 26th June, 2009 | 3 Comments
It would be great to feel like celebrating the 219-212 House of Representatives vote to pass the Waxman-Markey climate bill. But I don’t. The bill has serious problems and will probably get much worse in the Senate since conservative states hold more power there. Our “progressive” leadership in the House behaved about as undemocratically as »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 23rd June, 2009 | No Comments
Most of the climate geeks I know, including me, are obsessed with tracking the progress of either the Waxman-Markey climate bill (ACES), or the international climate negotiations leading up to the big United Nations Climate Change Conference this December in Copenhagen, or both. We read everything we can get our hands on, talk to each »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 19th June, 2009 | No Comments
I received an invitation recently to participate in a discussion with “clean tech” leaders and congressional staff about how to get green technologies into the hands of developing world countries through mechanisms associated with an international climate agreement. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to talk about this because it should be a key element »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 14th June, 2009 | 4 Comments
For the last several weeks, environmental groups have been struggling with how to respond to the Waxman-Markey climate bill now working its way through the House of Representatives. H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) is a huge and complex piece of legislation, running almost 1,000 pages in length. Waxman »
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Posted by Reede Stockton in Campaign for Climate Equity, Copenhagen / COP15, Politics & Economics on 11th June, 2009 | 2 Comments
There are a handful of people and organizations around the world that can be counted on to cut through the tangle of conflicting messages, revealing the social and economic justice foundations of international issues. Walden Bello and Focus on the Global South are at the head of that small list. Check out this video, the »
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