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Senate budget plan to include Keystone XL approval: lawmaker

2013-03-22 23:40:57| Energy - Topix.net

A Republican lawmaker said he expects a symbolic measure to approve the Keystone XL pipeline will be attached to the Senate's budget plan Friday, and that it will build support for a similar bill likely to be voted on later in the year.

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Senate budget plan to include Keystone XL approval: lawmaker

2013-03-22 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A Republican lawmaker said he expects a symbolic measure to approve the Keystone XL pipeline will be attached to the Senate's budget plan Friday, and that it will build support for a similar bill likely to be voted on later in the year. Senator John Hoeven, from North Dakota, told reporters his amendment to allow Congress to approve the pipeline would be selected from hundreds of others for a vote, and that it had at least the 51 backers needed to pass. TransCanada Corp's more than 800,000-barrel-per-day...

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GOP Lawmaker Wants Senate on Record About Carbon Taxes

2013-03-22 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

The Hill: Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) might put lawmakers on the record, indirectly at least, about whether they support taxing industrial carbon emissions to help confront climate change. Blunt has filed an amendment to the Senate Democrats budget plan that would require a 60-vote threshold for any legislation that imposes a federal carbon tax or fee. The amendment to the nonbinding budget arrives as several liberal Capitol Hill Democrats are floating plans to impose fees on carbon emissions from sources...

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EU Lawmaker Sees No Carbon Fix Compromise Before Vote

2013-03-21 08:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Political groups in the European Parliament will not propose a new compromise solution on a draft carbon market fix before the full assembly vote scheduled for next month, according to lawmaker Eija-Riitta Korhola. Korhola, who leads the work on the measure in the European Peoples Party, said representatives of political groups were unable to agree on potential changes to the legislative proposal yesterday during their last meeting before the April 16 vote. The Parliament and EU governments are...

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