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Hillary would charge new fees for fossil fuel extraction
Posted by High Country News: Elizabeth Shogren on June 17th, 2015
High Country News: During her official launch speech last weekend, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tossed out a big clue about the direction she would take the country’s climate change policy. If elected, she vowed, she would seek to make the United States a “clean energy superpower” and pay for the transition in part with “additional fees and royalties from fossil fuel extraction.” Coming just days before Pope Francis’s leaked appeal to address climate change grabbed headlines around the globe,...
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Wyoming: States give Senate an earful on EPA greenhouse gas plan
Posted by High Country News: Elizabeth Shogren on March 14th, 2015
High Country News: In an ornate room on Capitol Hill this week, U.S. senators heard two wildly different views from Western states on the viability of a proposed rule to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation.
During the hearing, Todd Parfitt, director, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan is “problematic and unrealistic to achieve.”
By contrast, Mary Nichols who chairs California’s...