What they’re saying
With the congressional climate change bill moving through the Senate and the U.N Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen around the corner, we’ve been hearing a lot of different opinions from...
View ArticleThe Boxer-Kerry bill: the next chapter
ACCCE supports the adoption of a mandatory federal program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We believe that such a program needs to focus on three primary goals – 1) bringing new technologies to the...
View ArticleWe hope Obama’s clean energy message inspires movement toward CCT
This afternoon, President Obama is scheduled to deliver an address on clean energy to an audience of students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As he speaks about the...
View ArticleSenate begins work of finding right balance on climate bill
Today, the Senate began hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. In accordance with these hearings, Sen. Tom Harkin wrote a letter to Sen. John Kerry, a co-sponsor of the legislation, and Majority...
View ArticleWhy climate legislation must provide support for CCT
We talk a lot on this blog about our belief that technology will be the ultimate answer to climate change, but I heard a fact today at the Clean Carbon Policy Summit in Austin that illustrates just how...
View ArticleClimate bill needs to protect jobs – and create new ones
There is no doubt that the climate bill has the potential to create jobs in the new clean energy sector – including in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). According to a study by BBC Research and...
View ArticleCan a climate bill be a jobs bill?
Some folks want you to believe that a climate bill is a jobs bill. You hear that claim being made a lot these days. Well, a climate bill can be a jobs bill, but only if it focuses equally on protecting...
View ArticleThe EPA, climate legislation and checks and balances
The editorial in the Wall Street Journal today reinforces what ACCCE has been saying for some time: The best way to address climate change and our energy portfolio is through legislation, not...
View ArticleACCCE Statement Regarding Senators Kerry, Graham and Lieberman Outline for...
Click here to read the statement on behalf of Stephen L. Miller, president and CEO of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), in response to yesterday's announcement on the Kerry,...
View ArticleClimate legislation must do no harm to the economy
Today’s economic news today was worse than economists expected, leaving us to consider a longer-than-expected recovery in America. Coupled with rising heating costs and a colder-than-usual winter in...
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