American Power Act: Senators Kerry and Lieberman Release “Discussion Draft” of New Climate Change Bill

Alec D. Rogers, Jeffrey H. Wood New Federal Initiatives Project The Federalist Society 7/8/2010

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McConnell Charges That ‘Major Party’ of Democrats’ Cap-Trade Bill ‘Essentially Written by BP’

Penny Starr CNSNews.com 6/9/2010

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that BP, the energy company responsible for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helped craft the bill proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) that would tax businesses for carbon emissions and raise the cost of fuel for […]

Mixed Reaction Greets Kerry-Lieberman Carbon Rationing Discussion Draft

Ronald Bailey Reason.com 5/12/2010

As promised, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (CFl-Conn.) have issued a draft discussion version of their American Power Act which aims to ration carbon dioxide emissions to limit man-made global warming and transform the U.S. energy economy. The modified cap-and-trade bill is 987 pages in length. Reactions are […]

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