Subject: What Now? China and India are In ... and other news from Dan Lashof, NextGen Climate America
From: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
To: Lauren Terrazas <[email-masked]>
Cc: Daniel Lashof <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:36:54 +0000

As expected, the Senate passed a bill yesterday to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Legislatively, this is much ado about nothing as the President has promised to veto the bill when it reaches his desk. The Senate debate on the Keystone bill, and the votes on numerous amendments, were, however, surprisingly interesting.

Last week I wrote<https://nextgenamerica.org/climate-change/climate-change-is-not-a-hoax-not-so-sure-about-the-senate/> about the climate change is real amendments. This week I revisit the international context and discuss the less-known Blunt amendment, which was intended to undermine exactly what climate action opponents have for years said they wanted: agreements by China and India to reduce their carbon pollution:
https://nextgenamerica.org/climate-change/what-now-china-and-india-are-in/

EPA's Clean Power Plan is at the core of the Obama Administration's strategy to meet America's greenhouse gas reduction targets. From the moment EPA announced its groundbreaking proposal to limit harmful carbon pollution from power plants, virtually all discussion of the Clean Power Plan has taken as a premise that implementing the rule will be extremely complicated. But the actual regulation proposed in the Clean Power Plan is no more complex than state administrators want it to be. David Weiskopf explains:
https://nextgenamerica.org/epa-rule/the-best-kept-secret-about-the-clean-power-plan-its-not-actually-that-complicated/

Last week Colin Murphy summarized the findings of a complicated report on low carbon fuel supplies for the West Coast. A two-page summary of the report is now available here:
http://www.theicct.org/sites/default/files/ICCT%20Low%20Carbon%20Fuels%20Study%20Summary.pdf

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