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The 56 votes killing a phony "clean" electricity amendment proved to be ominous. As support for the actual clean electricity amendment is short of 60 votes, according to CQ Today(subscription req'd) conservatives are threatening a filibuster. In turn, the amendment's...

Good news on the Senate floor today. Sen. Pete Domenici's attempt to count coal and nuclear towards clean energy standards for electricity was beaten back in the Senate just minutes ago, with 56 senators voting to kill the amendment, and only 39 supporting. Still...

This morning, the Senate is continuing to debate on the floor renewable energy standards for electricity, but according to Environment & Energy Daily (subscription required), much maneuvering is happening off the floor about liquid coal. E&ED reports that: Development...

Wall Street’s investment banks just got another one step closer to making defrauding investors an accepted line of business. And Enron’s employees who lost their pensions and the small investors who got fleeced in the Enron frauds just got shafted again – this time at...

Right now on the Senate floor, senators are debating dueling amendments from Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., on a possible "portfolio standard," which the Apollo Alliance describes as "setting the minimum amount of renewable energy that...

Both the New York Times and Washington Post report today that there is a move to include in the Senate energy bill $10 billion of federal loans for liquid coal fuel, raising concerns that the bill will set us back in the fight against global warming. The Post...

The Senate energy bill floor debate got off to a good start, as an Apollo Alliance-backed amendment sailed through on a voice vote, authorizing resources to train workers for high-skill, clean energy jobs. This was a major theme of the recent Apollo Summit. While...

There is more ammunition progressive leaders can use to push for a bold policy agenda in a new report by the Campaign for America's Future and Media Matters for America. That report says what we know instinctively but too many in Congress and in the political...

Over at the Take Back America blog, we talk to Program Coordinator for the Media Consortium Tracy Van Slyke, who will addressing the conference about media reform. Click here to read that interview, and others in the TBA Interview series. Online registration for Take...