Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:29 AM
Need-To-Know Memo, Jan. 12
By Amy Harder, NationalJournal.com
1) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, may wait a little longer to introduce her amendment preventing the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the Washington Post reports it's confirmed that two industry lobbyists who worked in the Bush EPA "helped craft the original amendment Murkowski planned to offer on the floor last fall."
2) One of the lobbyists, Jeff Holmstead, said it's a "wild exaggeration to say that I was somehow involved in drafting" Murkowski's amendment (Environment & Energy Daily -- subscription).
3) House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., "who supported the climate change bill passed by the House last summer, now says he will vote against a conference report if it is similar to the House version" (CongressDailyPM -- subscription).
4) "With a 30-day 'grace period' on enforcement by the agency expiring Friday, the Energy Department has received an avalanche of data submissions from appliance manufacturers anxious to avoid running afoul of a DOE probe into whether their products are as energy-efficient as claimed in their official certifications to the agency" (Energy Daily -- subscription).
5) Under a new proposal from a California advisory panel, 75 percent of the money that the state raises from fees on greenhouse gas emissions would be "returned to consumers in the form of annual dividend checks" (Wall Street Journal).
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