Topic: American Power Act

Climate-energy bill cost for consumers: up to $146 a year

The EPA has released an economic analysis of the climate-energy bill that could give the legislation a boost.

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.

Q&A with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry

Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and coauthor of a major climate and energy bill, discussed the chances of the bill clearing Congress this year at a May 26 Monitor Breakfast.

Sen. John Kerry: an alternative to offshore oil drilling

What has 18 wheels and employs 600,000 people?

The American Power Act subsidizes natural gas for the trucking industry. A well-executed green conversion for the some three million trucks on road right now would not only reduce carbon emissions but add more than half-a-million green jobs to the economy.

Climate-energy bill debuts in Senate, but prospects are dim

A climate-energy bill – one intended to appeal to enough factions to proceed through the Senate – was unveiled Wednesday after months of negotiations. But it recently lost its Republican sponsor, complicating its future.

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.