Posts Tagged ‘“Cap and Trade”’

TAKE ACTION: Stop Cap and Trade – UPDATED

[activate url="http://act.libertycentral.org/9/3416/prevent-higher-energy-prices/" target="_self" is_slanted="false"] Updated: John Kerry confirms the plan to enact cap-and-trade in a ‘lame duck’ session of Congress: But advocates of passing a climate bill aren’t backing down – particularly the leading champion for the legislation, Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, who told POLITICO on Wednesday that he will...

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Reid pushes ahead with Climate Bill, but Democrats balking

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is moving ahead with an effort to create a Senate energy bill. This bill is likely going to be painted as a response to the Gulf Oil Spill by improving drilling safety regulations, but as with many of the other pieces of legislation passed by...

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RedState: Breaking Down the President's Speech

If you thought the speech was short on the specifics of stopping the leak, you are right: Here is how the sections breakdown in words spoken on each: • 345 words blaming Bush • 418 words on the impact to Gulf region • 778 words on the oilspill and cleanup efforts • 863 words on [...]

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RedState: Breaking Down the President’s Speech

If you thought the speech was short on the specifics of stopping the leak, you are right: Here is how the sections breakdown in words spoken on each: • 345 words blaming Bush • 418 words on the impact to Gulf region • 778 words on the oilspill and cleanup efforts • 863 words on [...]

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Rep. Barton on Obama's BP Speech, Cap & Trade

This morning Liberty Central staff caught up with Congressman Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Barton shared his thoughts on the response to the Gulf oil spill, and the effort to use the spill to promote energy rationing through cap and trade.

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Rep. Barton on Obama’s BP Speech, Cap & Trade

This morning Liberty Central staff caught up with Congressman Joe Barton, the senior Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Barton shared his thoughts on the response to the Gulf oil spill, and the effort to use the spill to promote energy rationing through cap and trade.

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Cap & Trade: Senate Votes 'Present'

On June 10, the Senate voted by a margin of 53-47 not to block the EPA from imposing a cap-and-trade style energy rationing plan. Without Congress having acted, the EPA  will now continue imposing a carbon-permitting regime. As the Examiner points out, this is an intentional abdication of legislative authority:...

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Cap & Trade: Senate Votes ‘Present’

On June 10, the Senate voted by a margin of 53-47 not to block the EPA from imposing a cap-and-trade style energy rationing plan. Without Congress having acted, the EPA  will now continue imposing a carbon-permitting regime. As the Examiner points out, this is an intentional abdication of legislative authority:...

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Senate Ignores America & Votes "No" on the Murkowski Resolution

“We the People” are watching this administration change our culture – one bill at a time. Despite being a new organization, nearly 300 members of Liberty Central’s online community called Congress and 7,414 sent emails to their Members of Congress, all urging them to vote “yes” on the Murkowski Resolution....

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Global Warming Report Jumps the Gun

As the Senate comes up to a vote on SJ Res 26 in an effort to stop cap and trade, scientists with the National Academy of Sciences may have jumped the gun on the scientific data in issuing a report supporting the man-made global warming theory. Their backing of the theory comes as a research [...]

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