Topic: American Clean Energy and Security Act

Energy Voices Misunderstanding coal in Europe

Every ton of emissions from American coal burned in Europe means that a ton won’t be burned in a country like China – or even the United States – where emissions are uncapped, Holland writes.

Green economics 101: California's AB 32 and Proposition 23

Professor Kahn of UCLA presents a primer on California's greenhouse gas protections and the current ballot measure to overturn them.

Obama speech on Gulf oil spill and climate change: Why hard cost figures are needed

Few politicians want to debate the real costs of fighting climate change. Will, for example, gasoline be $5 a gallon or not? Perhaps a bill would pass if there were more honesty and openness about the real impact of hiking the price of carbon.

Senate climate bill may drop cap and trade

A compromise climate bill being developed in the Senate may drop controversial cap and trade legislation passed by the House.

Opinion: Want to help the environment and get cash back for cutting carbon emissions?

The Alaska dividends model is just one of several ways the 1,200-page Waxman-Markey climate change bill could be simplified and made more effective.

Will words fail us at the Copenhagen conference?

Linguist George Lakoff maintains that humans lack good ways to verbalize complex issues like climate change; the Monitor's language columnist tries to imagine things otherwise.

Glenn Beck goes home to face - what else? - controversy

His hometown is giving Beck the key to the city. Before that, his fans paid up to $500 to see and hear the conservative commentator at Safeco Field in Seattle. Did we mention that he has a new book out?

Finding the right metaphor to treat climate despair

Opinion: A carbon protection racket

The Waxman-Markey bill's 'international offsets' amount to paying polluting countries not to pollute.

Could cap-and-trade create another economic bubble?

G-8 as climate change forum: baby steps

Leaders agreed that warming must be stopped, but few specifics were reached on how to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

Are climate-change deniers guilty of treason?

What a national cap-and-trade program might look like

Ten Northeast states already have their own greenhouse-gas emissions regime. It's one model for the federal plan.

Pelosi embarks on 'tricky business' of passing climate bill

A successful vote Friday could give the administration momentum on its biggest priority: healthcare reform.

Democrats struggling for consensus on climate bills

With competing bills in the House and Senate, Democrats struggle to agree on key climate and energy reforms.

Key points of the climate-energy bill before Congress

Lawmakers craft a bill that will move the US to a far cleaner energy policy.

Carbon emissions pose danger, EPA finds

Agency’s move lays the foundation for expanding US regulation of thousands of companies.