Senate Progress on the Energy Bill

http://communities.thomsonreuters.com/Carbon/410436

Proposed Forest Carbon Incentives Program Act of 2009

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1576

Carbon Tariff?

A letter from ten U.S. Senators to President Obama.
http://brown.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ClimateChange_Manuf.pdf

The Wall Street Journal

Below is a link to a recent Wall Street Journal article on climate change science. From their perspective, significantly more scientists are becoming skeptical of climate change.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html

USDA to Oversee Carbon Offset Program in Energy Bill

The House Ag Committee has won a major argument on who is to administer the offset program in the new energy bill.
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/06/24/24climatewire-farm-groups-prevail-as-house-climate-bill-pu-24287.html

A Potential Mess

This is an interesting article that hints at the international problems that arise in developing countries when industrialized countries begin to purchase carbon offset credits from forests -an international version of carpetbaggers combined with little regulation and financial management in the developing countries. 
Think of what this implies to a U.S. energy bill that allows for international [...]

Oil Industry Blasts New Climate Bill

From the New York Times:
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/oil-industry-blasts-house-climate-bill/?hp

The Public and Cap and Trade

My Illinois farmer friend, John Phipps, has been spending a lot of time worrying about cap and trade legislation. He recently blogged about this survey concerning the public’s understanding of the issue.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/congress_pushes_cap_and_trade_but_just_24_know_what_it_is

Economist Paul Krugman on the Cost of Cap and Trade

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

Bound to Burn

An interesting article by Peter Huber of the Manhattan Institute on carbon, the developing world, and land use change.
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_carbon.html