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• More on Secy. Chu’s convoluted climate economics

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 652
  In recent testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, energy secretary Steven Chu makes a convoluted case for S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, a.k.a. the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill. Chu argues roughly as follows. Global investment in wind turbines and solar panels ...
  1 week ago

• Net Neutrality Red Herrings, and How to Combat Them

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 812
  Rep. Ed Markey had a conference call with bloggers last Friday to talk about his legislation which would "establish overarching national broadband policy and ensures an open and consumer oriented Internet," or codify net neutrality. In addition : Markey stressed the importance of fighting "misinformation," ...
  1 week ago

• F1 news briefs: Wednesday

  
  Flagworld.com >> News — Authority: 456
  Search begins for F1’s 2011 tyre supplier Michelin and Goodyear, the most recent tyre brands in formula one, have played down suggestions they might take over from Bridgestone as F1’s exclusive supplier in 2011 and beyond. A spokeswoman for Michelin’s North American headquarters said the French company is ...
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• Take Action for Net Neutrality

  
  BDPA Foundation — Authority: 130
  I was pleased to receive invitation to join a conference call today with Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) regarding his Internet Freedom Preservation Act ( H.R. 3458 ) bill. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act would protect Network Neutrality under the Communications Act, safeguard the future of the open Internet, ...
  1 week ago

• Ed Markey (D-MA) Discusses Net Neutrality with Black Bloggers

  
  Electronic Village — Authority: 567
  I was pleased to receive invitation to join a conference call today with Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) regarding his Internet Freedom Preservation Act ( H.R. 3458 ) bill. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act would protect Network Neutrality under the Communications Act, safeguard the future of the open Internet, ...
  1 week ago

• Testimony of Representatives Ed Markey and Tom Periello on Fraudulent Letters Sent to Congress

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 545
  Here is Chairman Markey’s testimony: markeyOpening - Here is Rep. Periello’s testimony: periello -
  2 weeks ago

• Markey To Coal Lobby: You Should Have Told Lawmakers About Forged Letters

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 780
  Rep. Ed Markey is putting blame for the forged letters episode where it ultimately belongs: on the coal lobby. "Youre responsbility was to ensure that the members of Congress knew that this information was fraudulent," Markey tells ACCCE chief Steve Miller. Miller had just said he assumed that Bonner himself ...
  2 weeks ago

• Did ACCCE Chief Lie To Congress?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 780
  Steve Miller of ACCCE just told the Markey committee that his firm never opposed the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation. But look at this Greenwire story, via the New York Times , from last month ... and especially this "clarification." Clarification: This story was changed to state that ACCCE opposed ...
  2 weeks ago

• AstroTurfing and Global Warming: The Testimony You’re Not Supposed to Hear

  
  Big Government — Authority: 805
  The Democratic majority objected to my appearing at a House hearing this morning addressing AstroTurfing in the global warming advocacy industry. The majority were not amused by the prospect of a discordant note being struck. As such, the Republicans will have no witnesses. They have agreed to this after being ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bonner: We Should Have Notified Lawmakers Right Away

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 780
  Perhaps Bonners biggest problem here is that he learned about the forged letters before the vote on global warming legislation, but didnt notify the affected lawmakers until after. Heres what Bonner said in his testimony on that point: While our immediate focus upon learning of this fraud was to reach out and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Coal Lobby Paid $7 Million To PR Firm That Hired Bonner

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 780
  A coal industry group paid over $7 million last fiscal year to the company that hired Bonner & Associates, the astroturf lobbying firm behind those forged letters to Congress . Thats according to internal documents obtained by congressional investigators and examined by TPMmuckraker. Jack Bonner, the founder ...
  2 weeks ago

• Astroturf King Jack Bonners Long History of Deceitful "Grassroots" Lobbying

  
  DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — Authority: 582
  JackBonnerQualityControl.jpg As youll recall, Bonner & Associates – the D.C. Astroturf shop busted for mailing at least a dozen forged letters to Congress this summer prior to the House vote on climate and energy legislation – has found itself under the media spotlight lately, struggling ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate News Network

  
  Big Government — Authority: 805
  This is pretty pathetic. CNN commissions a poll to assist with a week’s worth of Senate hearings and one in the House all designed to breathe life into the Senate’s counter to Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy rationing legislation. The express point of that scheme is to raise energy prices, which outcome our ...
  2 weeks ago

• The State of Play - Domestic Division

  
  Climate Change — Authority: 418
  As you know, there has been a tremendous amount of activity on climate change and energy on The Hill over the past year.  The House of Representatives got going fast, even before the 111th Congress got underway.  A leading progressive, hardball-playing Congressman from Los Angeles, Henry Waxman, assumed the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Move Toward Universal Phone Chargers

  
  Tech Policy Central — Authority: 114
  According to News.com, the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved a standard for a universal cellphone charger based on micro-USB technology. You may remember that during last months House oversight hearing of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kerry-Boxer’s not-so-hidden fangs

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 652
  Next week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold three hearings on S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act ,” also known as Kerry-Boxer after its co-sponsors Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Kerry-Boxer is the Senate companion bill to H.R. 2454, the ...
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• Big Connected Health Symposium: What Video Games, Social Networking, and Other Tech Innovations Are Doing for Healthcare

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 714
  IT , Healthcare IT , Connected Health Ryan McBride wrote: Partners HealthCare’s Center for Connected Health is holding its sixth big Connected Health Symposium in Boston this week, and there’s definitely more optimism here that information technology is becoming more mainstream in healthcare than ...
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• Podcast: House Committee Will Examine U.S. Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 514
  The House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee , chaired by Ed Markey, co-author of the American Clean Energy and Security Act , will hold a hearing this Thursday to consider how the U.S. can best adapt to inevitable climate change. A report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program shows ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bonner Hearing Postponed After GOP Complaints

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 780
  Not so fast... This mornings hearing, at which astroturf lobbyist Jack Bonner was scheduled to testify about the forged letters sent by his firm to lawmakers, has been postponed a week. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the ranking Republican on the Select Committee For Energy Independence and Global Warming, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Congress To Hold Hearing On Bonners Forged Letters

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 780
  This should be fun... A congressional panel will hold a hearing Thursday into those forged letters urging lawmakers to oppose climate change legislation. The letters purported to come from minority, senior, and veterans groups, but in fact were sent by Bonner & Associates, a GOP-aligned astroturf lobbying ...
  4 weeks ago

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