The Kerry-Graham-Lieberman team floated some elements of their plan: cap-and-trade for the power sector only, with a possible phase-in for industrial facilities, and a potential gasoline tax, with major oil companies advocating that the tax be payable at the pump.

Falling mercury usually signifies global cooling, but falling mercury regulations could signify a new twist in global warming legislation. This week, a Federal court vacated EPA’s Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR), which would have established a cap-and-trade program for mercury emissions from power plants.

Chairman Boxer issued a set of "principles" for climate change legislation.

With the unfolding financial crisis on Wall Street, it seems likely that federal climate change legislation might not top the agenda of Congress in 2009.

As 2010 came to a close, EPA announced a timeline for proposing GHG performance standards for power plants and refineries.

Commentary: “Evidence abounds of the “mainstreaming” of renewable energy. Still, it was hard not to be impressed by the immensity of the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) this past week in Washington, D.C. Registrations exceeded 7,000, and the meeting attracted not just a mix of project developers, but also the major financials, foreign ministers, and President Bush.”

Sen. Barbara Boxer released a new version of the Kerry-Boxer comprehensive climate and energy bill. This "Chairman’s Mark", which introduces allowance allocations to the original S. 1733, will serve as the basis for EPW mark ups, which are expected to begin in the next few weeks . . .

The Kerry-Boxer ship launched this week. As expected, it incorporated a tighter emissions cap for 2020 than the Waxman-Markey bill.

ACES passes the House by a vote of 219-212. Passage of the bill provides a potential roadmap for appealing to agriculture-state and cost-sensitive moderates in the Senate.

On November 21, 2025, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ("USFWS") issued four proposed rules—two of which the National Marine Fisheries Service ("NMFS") joined—that, if finalized, will revise the regulations...

Sens. Kerry and Lieberman announced that they would roll out the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill on May 12 accompanied by CEOs from a number of major companies .

The long-anticipated Kerry-Lieberman bill came out last week, taking the form of a discussion draft.

In July, Senator Mark Begich worked on drafting federal legislation to create a Regional Citizens Advisory Council for Alaska’s North Slope.

As members of Congress return from their August recess and begin working on a packed agenda, climate change is one of the issues expected to receive continued attention.

EPA is moving forward with its registry for mandatory GHG emissions reporting . . . Substantial funding for clean energy survived in the final version of the stimulus bill . . .

In international news, the EU Environment Ministers reaffirmed their call for a mid-term emissions target for developed countries of 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

The Waxman-Markey draft arrived this week, outlining a Federal cap-and-trade program, renewable electricity standard, energy efficiency standard, and a range of other policies and programs.

On November 20, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) in the Federal Register...

Negotiations continue behind closed doors as aides for Waxman and Markey work to find common ground with moderate Democrats from the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment in order to avoid a public dust-up in a mark-up.

The recurring adjective describing the agreement reached in Cancún is "modest."