NYT article on clean energy people storming the capital for Kerry/Boxer bill

[karynnj]

Some names looked familiar from hearings.

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/10/08/08climatewire-clean-tech-energy-lobbyists-push-for-climate-40716.html?pagewanted=1

[ProSense]

1. Interesting,

I guess a lot of people see the writing on the wall. Here's a piece on the WH involvement.

[ProSense]

2. Kerry issues

rebuttal

[beachmom]

3. Interesting article on the Administration's involvement w/ the climate bill:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5grCM7x7LFLmQbTfarx9ZU8SJs4RwD9B747N00

The White House effort started earlier this year. The first big meeting between Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who introduced the bill last week, and administration officials took place over dinner in March at his Georgetown home. Browner, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, White House science adviser John Holdren and State Department climate negotiators Todd Stern and Jonathan Pershing attended.

There has also been a permanent White House representative at a weekly meeting of nearly 20 senators working to advance the legislation, Kerry said.

"Now there will be a more unified meeting process between senators and the administration in order to lock things in," said Kerry. "We are getting into the stage of negotiations where people need to close."

Browner was scheduled to meet later Thursday with a group of five Democratic senators concerned about the cost curbing greenhouse gases will have on their home-state industries. Their votes are crucial for the measure to pass.

"It's important for us to get right from the senators their thinking," Browner said. "As the bill starts to move ... we want to make sure that we in the administration know what members are most focused on and what's going to be key to ensuring their support for comprehensive energy legislation."

How much support the administration is getting is unclear. Kerry on Thursday acknowledged that the bill had a long way to go. His co-sponsor Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Sunday during an interview on C-SPAN that she did not have the 60 votes. Hearings on the measure may also be pushed back to later in October to wait for an EPA analysis of the legislation.

Read more at the link.

[YvonneCa]

4. There is an interesting display on the mall in DC of the 'Solar Decathalon'...

...which is a competition between universities of solar energy innovations. They were just setting up this week. It actually begins this weekend. Here's a link for anyone who is interested:


http://www.solardecathlon.org/