Friday, April 9, 2010 6:44 AM
Need-To-Know Memo, April 9
By Christopher Snow Hopkins, NationalJournal.com
1) Fourteen Senators, including six from New England, have signed on to letters urging the climate trio to jettison language that could require states to scale back their clean energy programs (Boston Globe). Of particular concern to New England lawmakers is the future of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a coalition of 10 states that auctions carbon allowances to power plants and devotes the proceeds to improving energy efficiency.
2) Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., plan to introduce an "electrification bill" that would spur development of the infrastructure needed to make electric cars feasible (The Hill).
3) The U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands abstained from a vote by the World Bank to loan $3.75 billion to help build a coal-fired plant in South Africa, a country dogged by electricity shortages in recent years (Financial Times -- subcription).
4) "After growing steadily since 2004, wind energy's share of new U.S. production capacity decreased in 2009," NationalJournal.com reports, citing the American Wind Energy Association's annual report.
5) Al Gore on Wednesday commended Maggie Fox, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, for writing on NationalJournal.com's Expert Blog that the proposed expansion of offshore drilling "will simply continue our reliance on dirty fossil fuels."
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