Comments on: After Brown Election, Senators Take Aim at EPA's Endangerment Ruling

By: Sen. Rockefeller’s Bill to Block EPA Emissions Regulation Grows | BIOMASS INTEL

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:35:14 +0000

[...] – who has 40 cosponsors for her competing plan – supports Rockefeller’s bill but said she’s keeping her own plan at the ready if it [...]

By: Senator Murkowski Vows to Fight to Move Alaska Out of “Liberal” Ninth Circuit | BIOMASS INTEL

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:12:56 +0000

[...] recently, the Senator launched an attack to prevent the EPA from acting on its endangerment ruling, which sets the stage for the agency to regulate GHG gases [...]

By: House Reps Say No to Indirect Land Use Change and EPA Tailoring Rule | BIOMASS INTEL

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:19:06 +0000

[...] and stall EPA climate rules. Biomass Intel reported last month that Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced a disapproval resolution that would effectively veto EPA’s determination that GHGs threaten [...]

By: US and EU Inch Towards Biofuel Sustainability Standards | BIOMASS INTEL

US and EU Inch Towards Biofuel Sustainability Standards | BIOMASS INTEL — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:30:42 +0000

[...] of EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act (see legislative challenges here and here) and how far to scale back ILUC measures so as not to freeze corn ethanol out of the [...]

By: Mackinnon Lawrence

Mackinnon Lawrence — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:23:08 +0000

Kate Sheppard writing on the Mojo blog at Mother Earth reports that industry groups are hunkering down in Sidley Austin LLP's offices to formulate Plan B for challenging EPA regulations should Senator Murkowski's Resolution fail. The Hill explains that the group is divided between two strategies: 1) challenge whatever rules EPA issues, and 2) question the science of climate change itself.