From the Western Business Roundtable and E&E News;

An early version of the soon-to-be-released Boxer-Kerry Senate climate legislation is out --- you can see it here.  Below is breaking coverage of where this bill appears to be heading.

From the Western Business Roundtable and Wyoming Energy News;
to read this article in WBR, click here.

Business group says that Congress should ‘go back to the drawing board’ and develop climate legislation that follows 10 ‘common sense’ principles.

(from Western Business Roundtable)

One bill would increase energy independence; the other would force greater dependence on foreign imports, Western business leaders say.

(This article is condensed from EEI Daily Energy News via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )

The Midwest Climate Coalition, comprising 13 member utilities, has called on the Senate to include a price collar on carbon credits in order to limit costs for coal-dependent generators in their region, Energy Washington Week reported today. The price collar is supported by EEI, which is developing a white paper on the concept, and would set upper and lower price limits for CO2 credits.

Fossil fuels have very volatile prices.  Solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, energy efficiency — not so much.   So the Senate Committee on Energy &  Natural Resources should be holding a hearing on how the climate and clean energy bill — which  accelerates the transition to clean energy sources that never run out and that stabilize the energy bills of American taxpayers — decreases voltality.

by Gary M. Yaquinto , Commentary
to read this article in the East Valley Tribune, click here.
September 12, 2009 - 5:25PM

Since the Industrial Revolution, the world’s economic engine has been fueled by fossil fuels. Some scientists have been warning, however, that if we don’t restrict our carbon-belching ways now, Earth’s polar ice caps will shrink, weather patterns will become ever more extreme, and coastal cities like New York City will become swampland.

Efforts to control emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) come with economic tradeoffs. 

By Robert Glennon
SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POST

As published in the Arizona Daily Star

In the United States, we constantly fret about running out of oil. But we should be paying more attention to another limited natural resource: water.
A water crisis is threatening many parts of the country, not just the arid West.