Sen. Majority Leader Reid introduced his svelte energy bill, the Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Spill Accountability Act, which would remove the liability cap on offshore drilling companies.

Majority Leader Reid will meet this week with the committee chairmen that can lay claim to pieces of the energy/climate equation: Bingaman, Kerry, Rockefeller, Baucus, and Lincoln.

EPA finally issued its guidance to state permitting authorities on Prevention of Significant Deterioration permitting and Best Available Control Technology (BACT) determinations for greenhouse gases.

Energy policy has moved to the front burner in the contest for the White House. Sen. McCain has pushed to expand off-shore drilling. Sen. Obama expresses a new openness to drilling, but only as part of a comprehensive package of funding for alternative energy, a tax credit drawn from the "windfall profits" that oil companies allegedly are enjoying, and a draw-down from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

This week's most significant news involves a study by a marine advocacy group naming global shipping as the 6th largest source of global GHG emissions ranking just behind the United States, China, India, Russia and Japan.

Speaker Pelosi pledged to pass climate change legislation out of the House by December; this after Chairman Waxman pledged to pass legislation through his Energy & Commerce Committee before the Memorial Day recess . . .

The Boxer/EPW chapter of the Senate climate legislation story ended abruptly this week. In the face of a Republican boycott over the absence of a new EPA analysis of the Kerry-Boxer bill, Chairman Boxer decided to report the Manager’s Amendment version of the bill out of the Committee for Senate consideration.

The top energy and environment advisor to the Obama campaign has said that, absent Congressional action, an Obama Environmental Protection Agency would move forward with Clean Air Act-based regulation of GHG emissions .

President-elect Obama named his green team this week. Eschewing the kind of political heavy-weights he selected for other cabinet-level posts, the President-elect went with experienced, tough-minded regulators and a Nobel-prize winning physicist . . .

EPA Administrator Jackson acknowledged this week that finalizing the GHG emission standards for motor vehicles will trigger obligations under the Clean Air Act for the Agency to impose permitting and technology requirements on stationary sources of GHG emissions.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are currently reviewing comments received on proposed revisions announced last spring to the Endangered Species Act petition process.

Phased and confused? The European Union member governments are currently stalemated on approval of an ambitious program for Phase III of the European Union Emissions Trading System.

In recent weeks, the Department of Energy (DOE) has cancelled more than 650 financial assistance awards—grants and cooperative agreements—totaling nearly $24 billion.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) sees a bipartisan climate bill on the floor of the Senate in the Spring . . .

At an APEC breakfast in Singapore, President Obama and other world leaders lowered expectations for the Copenhagen climate change summit by agreeing to negotiate a short "politically binding agreement" first, and deferring a legally binding treaty until mid to late 2010 .

The tick-tock on climate change legislation continues. The Kerry-Graham-Lieberman (K-G-L) team is targeting April 26th for their release date.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) issued a proposed rule today (11/13/25) to amend reporting and recordkeeping requirements for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under Section 8(a)(7)...

Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), the front-runner for Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee if Republicans take the House in the mid-term elections, penned an editorial attributing the country’s economic problems to "the administration’s restrictive regulatory stranglehold on industry."

Senators Bingaman (D-NM) and Brownback (R-KS) introduced a bill to establish a renewable electricity standard, and indicated it may move in a lame duck session after the November election.

As Majority Leader Reid confirms that there will be no climate change legislation in 2010, the push and pull over action by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) begins.