On June 4th, Parliament will
vote on the Energy Bill.
In exchange for
a vote on the energy bill, Dems gave up on a few of their other bills and allowed a bill delisting gray wolves from the endangered species list to go forward.
Not exact matches
In fact, the
bill Obama
voted for raised taxes
on oil companies by $ 300 million over 11 years while providing $ 5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable
energy,
energy efficiency and alternative fuels.
«The same
energy and spirit the bipartisan group put into forging a compromise this weekend ought to be committed to finding a
bill on DACA that will pass this body with 60
votes,» Schumer said.
On a related note, Warren Cornwall wrote on Wednesday that «[f] ederal energy research could get a financial shot in the arm under a bipartisan energy bill, passed by the U.S. Senate [that day] on an 85 to 12 vote, which calls for hefty budget increases for scienc
On a related note, Warren Cornwall wrote
on Wednesday that «[f] ederal energy research could get a financial shot in the arm under a bipartisan energy bill, passed by the U.S. Senate [that day] on an 85 to 12 vote, which calls for hefty budget increases for scienc
on Wednesday that «[f] ederal
energy research could get a financial shot in the arm under a bipartisan
energy bill, passed by the U.S. Senate [that day]
on an 85 to 12 vote, which calls for hefty budget increases for scienc
on an 85 to 12
vote, which calls for hefty budget increases for science.
With the Senate Republican tax
bill racing towards a contentious
vote despite numerous obstacles, a group of American
energy trade bodies have penned an open letter raising urgent concerns that claim a provision, if it remains as written, would have dire impacts
on the country's renewable
energy industry.
Senator McCain: why did you fail to show up for the
Energy Bill vote that has added another year of delay
on action?
Rep. Cornyn, for his part, has consistently
voted with the oil industry
on energy, war and climate
bills.
Rep. Boehner, for his part, has consistently
voted with the coal industry
on energy bills.
Before the final United States House of Representatives and Senate
votes on Friday, February 13, 2009, the SEIA (Solar
Energy Industries Association) congratulated Congressional leaders for working out a compromise economic recovery
bill with «Solar Industry Ready to Hire and Create Growth Opportunities with Economic Recovery Package» and said:
The push to hold a
vote on Keystone XL comes as the Senate weighs a different bipartisan
energy bill on Tuesday: the long - delayed Shaheen - Portman measure
on energy efficiency.
The
Energy Bill, which was passed earlier this year in two very different forms by the House and Senate, is being trimmed down in the hopes that it will be
voted on before Turkey Day.
That
bill never was never
voted on in the
Energy Resources committee.
Rep. Barton, for his part, has consistently
voted with the oil industry
on energy, war and climate
bills.
On June 26th, the US House of Representatives passed a
Bill titled the American Clean
Energy and Security Act by a scant 219 to 212
votes.
On June 26, the House of Representatives approved an
energy and climate change
bill in a close
vote.
This week in Denver, July 19 - 21, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will welcome Republican state legislators and its corporate funders, including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody
Energy, and PhRMA, to
vote on corporate legislative priorities and create cookie cutter «model»
bills in task force meetings that are still closed to the press.
In 1994 they went out
on a limb and
voted for an
energy tax (known as the Btu tax) pushed by then - Vice President Al Gore and President
Bill Clinton's White House only to see the Senate reject such a measure.
Democrats and Republicans had, in the course of a few short months, effectively switched policy positions
on energy, with Democrats
voting to hand trillions in new subsidies to coal - burning utilities and power plants while gutting Clean Air Act restrictions
on the construction of coal - fired power plants, and Republicans, long - standing coal boosters,
voting against a pro-coal
bill.
In the face of this political pressure, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the other Democrats in the House crafted an
energy bill that gave the Republicans the
vote they demanded
on drilling, but that also limited the impacts of OCS drilling
on coastal tourism, renewed the renewable
energy tax credit, and that stripped away many oil company subsidies.
In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Committee
on Energy and Natural Resources last June came together and unanimously
voted out a bipartisan
bill to address the key problems uncovered by our hearings
on the disaster.
The House of Representatives
voted on Thursday evening, 16th February, for a package of four
energy bills that if enacted will greatly expand U. S. oil and natural gas production
on federal lands and the Outer Continental Shelf plus permit the Keystone XL pipeline.
On Tuesday, the reincarnated Million Solar Roofs
bill, Senate Bill (SB) 1, passed the Senate Energy Committee with a unanimous vote from all nine Democrats and Republicans pres
bill, Senate
Bill (SB) 1, passed the Senate Energy Committee with a unanimous vote from all nine Democrats and Republicans pres
Bill (SB) 1, passed the Senate
Energy Committee with a unanimous
vote from all nine Democrats and Republicans present.
[Translate] One area of
energy funding the House spared as it
voted on its «minibus» budget
bill was fossil fuel...
Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Republicans
on the Senate
Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told Politico that the decision by Reid, who planned to bring the
bill up for a
vote without amendments, reflects the fact that «the majority leader can't work in bipartisan manner to help the residents in the Gulf.»
The Minnesota Senate
Energy and Utilities Finance and Policy Committee
voted 7 — 2 in favor of the
bill on March 27, referring it to the Senate floor.
Washington, D.C. — Today, by a bipartisan
vote of 59 to 40
on a cloture motion, an irresponsible minority of Senators continued to block progress
on a comprehensive
energy bill.
Outside of New York and Illinois, which passed laws subsidizing ailing nuclear facilities in 2016, Connecticut's governor last year signed a
bill allowing Dominion's Millstone plant to participate in its clean
energy procurement process, and New Jersey's lawmakers are poised to
vote on a zero - emission credit (ZEC) program today, Korsnick said.
The Senate Committee
on Energy, Utilities, and Telecommunications passed a companion
bill, by a 9 to 3
vote.
The amended
bill passed out of the assembly's Utilities and
Energy Committee with an 8 - 5
vote on April 25.
By a 15 to 6
vote, the House Environment,
Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance committee passed H.F. 72, «A bill for an act relating to energy; removing ban on increased carbon dioxide emissions by utilities.&
Energy and Natural Resources Policy and Finance committee passed H.F. 72, «A
bill for an act relating to
energy; removing ban on increased carbon dioxide emissions by utilities.&
energy; removing ban
on increased carbon dioxide emissions by utilities.»
This year, a
vote on a renewable electricity standard was blocked during the Senate's
energy bill debate.Representative Tom Udall (D - N.M.), the amendment's lead sponsor in the House called the
vote «a great victory for the planet.»
Last week, the House of Representatives
voted on the
Energy and Water appropriations
bill.
Rep. Spratt, for his part, has been a supporter of coal companies, having
voted in their interests
on energy, war and climate
bills.
The House
Energy and Commerce Committee,
on a mostly partisan
vote, approved the
bill that would halt EPA regulations that began this year to control emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants linked to climate change.