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KERRY ON CARBON PRICING: President Joe Biden has chosen to lead with a clean electricity standard mandating carbon-free power by 2035 as one of his main climate change initiatives, and he hopes to pass it into law as part of his $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill.
But climate envoy
John Kerry suggested yesterday that carbon pricing will stay on Biden s agenda, even if it’s not the immediate path pursued.
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MANCHIN’S LATEST FILIBUSTER FUSS: Sen.
Joe Manchin won’t vote to eliminate the filibuster and he’s also skeptical of reconciliation, because he’s told us this hundreds of times already, but it’s worth looking for clues about ramifications for energy policy in his latest warning.
Manchin, the chairman of the Energy Committee, advised President
Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer against using the reconciliation budget procedure to bypass the Senate filibuster and ram through major legislation with party-line votes.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 03 April 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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There hasn t been much change in the trajectory of either US Covid metric: new cases continue to increase at a modest pace, while US Covid deaths continue to fall. New cases of Covid confirmed over the week ending April 3rd were 5.9% higher that those confirmed over the week ending March 27th, and 15.9% higher than those of the week ending March 20th, while US Covid deaths during the week ending April 3rd were 12.2% lower than the prior week, and down 74.7% from the peak week in late January.
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THE PROMISE FOR CARBON CAPTURE: A top advocate of carbon capture, removal, and storage technologies says President
Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan could offer the industry the long-term certainty it needs to take off.
Biden is outlining the first comprehensive agenda that would both support carbon capture project deployment and finance the buildout of the pipelines needed to carry captured carbon dioxide to where it can be stored underground.
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THE PLAY FOR CARBON PRICING: A group of House Democrats is making a push for the Biden administration to include a carbon price as part of its green infrastructure package, going against the grain of the party, which has largely moved on to favor other climate policies.
Rep.
Ted Deutch of Florida told reporters today that he and 28 co-sponsors introduced a carbon tax and dividend bill last week, one that would return the revenue to households, in order to force the policy into negotiations between Congress and the administration.