The Kerry-Boxer draft climate change legislation is due out on September 30 . . . We have not had much climate change news out of the judicial branch lately, but this week brought a big story.

EPA is aiming to issue its final version of the Tailoring Rule by the end of April. Assistant Air Administrator Gina McCarthy voiced assurances that carbon capture and sequestration would not be a required technology .

Majority Leader Reid delayed Senate floor votes on his scaled-back oil spill/energy legislation due to what might be termed a "lack of enthusiasm" . . .

Majority Leader Reid delayed Senate floor votes on his scaled-back oil spill/energy legislation due to what might be termed a "lack of enthusiasm" .

Senator Murkowski’s office believes she has sufficient votes in the Senate for her resolution disapproving of EPA’s endangerment finding . . .

In a season of changes, this week's big change was the ascension of Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) to Chairman of a new Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, which will be the first stop for climate change legislation in the House of Representatives.

Extraordinary activity on the climate front last week while most were focused on basketball brackets, health care, and taking the temperature of voters . . .

As Republicans expand their power in the Congress, look for a reshaped climate change and air quality policy agenda. Republican leaders have committed to defunding or delaying EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

On December 4, 2025, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking stakeholder...

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EPA published its long-awaited proposed endangerment finding this week. Notably, the scope of the proposal only included the endangerment finding.

Poznan: positioning or posing? . . . Brazil has come forward with a noteworthy commitment, agreeing to adopt an ambitious target for reducing deforestation . . .

Our understanding is that staff for Sens. Kerry, Lieberman, Snowe, and Bingaman are now in the same room trying to work out the climate portion of an energy-climate bill.

The Senate rejected the Murkowski Resolution by a vote of 53 to 47. Six Democrats and all 41 Republicans had supported the Resolution

No sign this past week of EPA’s guidance on Best Available Control Technology for greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, the deeply divided working group of the Clean Air Act Advisory Committee issued its report on the subject .

This week provides news that officials from the Obama Administration are reaching out to Democratic Senators comprising the moderate "Gang of 16".

A group of major economies met the January 31st deadline for inscribing their non-binding emission mitigation commitments in the schedule at the back of the Copenhagen Accord.

Just Deserets? EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency would reconsider (but would not, at this point, stay the effectiveness of) the Deseret memo issued by her immediate predecessor.

On July 6, 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) that would require a significant reduction in sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from power plants in 31 states located in the Eastern half of the United States.

Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman floated a trial balloon this week, suggesting that they will be releasing draft legislation in March and that it will depart from the economy-wide cap-and-trade model in favor of an approach that uses different policy designs for different sectors . . .