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As the Senate slogs through the final days of this session, Democrats feel great frustration over the failure to pass major e…

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Do you like this blog post? Some in Congress are intent on making a bad situation even worse. Despite calls from across the country – including 67 newspaper editorials , over 80,000 letters from clean energy advocates , and opposition from a bi-partisan group of Senators and one of the broadest coalitions imaginable – lame-duck lawmakers are pushing ahead with ethanol earmarks.

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Do you like this blog post? Some in Congress are intent on making a bad situation even worse. Despite calls from across the country – including 67 newspaper editorials , over 80,000 letters from clean energy advocates , and opposition from a bi-partisan group of Senators and one of the broadest coalitions imaginable – lame-duck lawmakers are pushing ahead with ethanol earmarks.

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If there is one area where President Barack Obama and the new Congress should be able to readily and substantively find common ground in 2011, it is energy policy.

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With Tea Party-backed Republicans set to take over the House of Representatives in January and to narrow their minority in the Senate, how will this new legislative realty change U.S. policy towards climate change, the environment, and energy? Democrats gave up on climate change legislation efforts this summer after a political debacle that featured strong conservative pressure on moderate …

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Besides acknowledging a “shellacking” in midterm congressional elections, President Obama on Wednesday addressed some of the fronts on which Republicans and “tea party” activists claimed victory: Environmental Protection Agency regulation on greenhouse gas and the cap-and-trade approach to energy policy….

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With political control of the House and Senate now decided, the next big question becomes: gridlock or compromise? President …

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The U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday will likely have a profound effect on policy from climate change legislation to tackling the budget deficit.

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With clean energy legislation trapped in a political deadlock, renewable energy advocates called big business the new leader in the nation’s green revolution at a national summit meeting Tuesday.

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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) – President Barack Obama’s continued moratorium on deepwater petroleum drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is an attempt to move the United States toward alternative energy at a high economic cost to southern Louisiana, the state’s lieutenant governor says. During a hearing Tuesday before the state’s two U.S. senators, Republican David Vitter and Democrat Mary Landrieu, Lt. Gov …

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