2010-06-24T19:08:58Z The Washington Post has convened a panel of scientists, global leaders and policy thinkers and experts to discuss and debate global climate policy issues. tag:views.washingtonpost.com,2010:/climate-change/panelists/101 Copyright (c) 2010, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive 2010-06-24T19:08:58Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-17:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/whatever_works_just_do_it.html

Q: Should EPA keep pressing ahead with new greenhouse gas rules, or should it accept Congress will shape the future of any mandatory limits on carbon dioxide?" The conventional wisdom around Washington is that it is better for Congress to legislate on climate change than for EPA to regulate. That is correct only if Congress can and does act effectively. Certainly Congress has more ability than EPA to create a flexible, targeted program of action...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Reid Detchon 2010-06-18T17:56:03Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-17:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/epa_should_proceed_with_market-based_regulations.html

Q: Should EPA keep pressing ahead with new greenhouse gas rules, or should it accept Congress will shape the future of any mandatory limits on carbon dioxide? The EPA can and must proceed with new rules--but it must do so using market-based mechanisms that will not clash with possible future congressional actions. It is bound by law to proceed, but it can move wisely by laying groundwork that will come at the lowest possible costs...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Richard L. Revesz 2010-06-18T17:57:00Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-16:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/energy_policy_is_beyond_epas_mission.html

Q: Should EPA keep pressing ahead with new greenhouse gas rules, or should it accept Congress will shape the future of any mandatory limits on carbon dioxide? Climate policy is energy policy and that is beyond EPA's mission and competence. Government agencies have a hard enough time with their assigned missions without attempting to perform ones that are beyond their expertise and competence. EPA knows, as does Congress, that the Clean Air Act was never...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

William O'Keefe 2010-06-18T18:00:41Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-16:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/its_about_carbon_not_congress.html

Q: Should EPA keep pressing ahead with new greenhouse gas rules, or should it accept Congress will shape the future of any mandatory limits on carbon dioxide? So the good news, I guess, is that Lisa Murkowski's resolution went down. The bad news is that in a 60-vote Senate, it's hard to imagine a climate bill, or even a mere energy bill that does something about coal-fired plants, getting through. If I saw the Senate...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Ezra Klein 2010-06-18T18:01:30Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-15:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/epa_or_congress.html

Q: Should EPA keep pressing ahead with new greenhouse gas rules, or should it accept Congress will shape the future of any mandatory limits on carbon dioxide? It is important for the federal government of the U.S. to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a previous blog post, I said that the EPA route isn't going to be the best way to do it because it may well result in higher costs for the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

David Hone 2010-06-07T15:15:39Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-07:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/q_could_the_oil_spill.html

Q: Could the oil spill really have far-reaching implications for America's energy future? Should it? The oil spill is an environmental disaster. And for the last 40-some days, Gulf State residents have witnessed this continuing crisis first hand while the rest of us witnessed unending media coverage. At times like this, our nation and those directly affected by the spill need leadership, not politicization, posturing, and pandering. Unfortunately, President Obama's speech in Pittsburgh exemplified those...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

William O'Keefe 2010-06-07T15:11:56Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-07:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/far-reaching_implications.html

Q: Could the oil spill really have far-reaching implications for America's energy future? Should it? What happened in the Gulf should affect the thinking of every American. We trusted big companies who told us they knew what they were doing when the government allowed them to drill for oil in deep water. This same type of spill happened in 1979 for Pemex, the petroleum company of Mexico with the Ixtoc oil well blowout, with the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Rick Edmund 2010-06-07T14:55:20Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-06:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/another_2x4_to_the_head.html

Q: Could the oil spill really have far-reaching implications for America's energy future? Should it? The continuing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is yet another reminder of the risks of our current energy policy -- or lack thereof. Will the Senate stand idly by as oil devastates one of the richest ecosystems on Earth? Congress can't undo the damage that has been done, but it can accelerate the transition to alternatives - biofuels, natural...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Reid Detchon 2010-06-07T14:51:35Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-06-04:/climate-change/panelists2010/06/oil_and_energy.html

In Pittsburgh June 2, President Obama vowed to gather votes for the climate bill in the "coming months" and repeated his intention to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for big oil companies, to tap natural gas reserves as an alternative to coal and to increase reliance on nuclear power. Could the oil spill really have far-reaching implications for America's energy future? Should it? Whatever the eventual catalyst for climate legislation in the...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

David Hone 2010-05-28T17:13:05Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-05-27:/climate-change/panelists2010/05/use_gas_to_phase_out_coal.html

Natural gas is the forgotten resource in America's energy debate. Long thought to be a valuable but diminishing resource for which the U.S. would increasingly have to rely on imports, natural gas is now understood to be available in greater supply than the country could use for the next half-century. Improved drilling technologies have made it possible to release gas trapped in vast underground shale reservoirs and produce it at affordable prices. The implications for...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Reid Detchon 2010-05-26T16:07:54Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-05-25:/climate-change/panelists2010/05/the_role_of_gas_to_2020.html

One of the key balances in any approach to managing emissions across an economy are the respective roles of coal and natural gas. This will almost certainly be true in the U.S. as well. Today, some 2 billion MWHrs per annum of electricity is generated from coal, with just under 1 billion from natural gas. Together they make up nearly three quarters of U.S. electricity production. In the process of generating that electricity, the coal...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

David Hone 2010-05-26T16:03:14Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-05-21:/climate-change/panelists2010/05/kerry_lieberman_natural_gas_provision_is_a_loser.html

Q: The Kerry-Lieberman climate bill would provide tax incentives for converting vehicles to burn natural gas. How large a role should natural gas play in the switch to a low-carbon economy, and in a Senate climate bill? This provision lacks energy and economic logic and justification. It is just one more example of the effort to buy support for a bad climate bill and reward special interests with taxpayer dollars. Like the tax credit for...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

William O'Keefe 2010-05-14T19:36:14Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-05-14:/climate-change/panelists2010/05/tyranny_of_the_urgent.html

In Thursday's USA Today, there was a full page ad for a climate change conference whose purpose is "to build momentum and public awareness of the global warming 'realism' movement, a network of scientists, economists, policymakers, and concerned citizens who believe sound science and economics, rather than exaggeration and hype, ought to determine what actions, if any, are taken to address the problem of climate change." That is a noble goal for all of us,...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Rick Edmund 2010-05-12T19:52:12Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-05-12:/climate-change/panelists2010/05/time_for_senate_to_stop_stalling_on_climate_change.html

Why, after a deadly explosion at a West Virginia coal mine and a massive oil spill in the Gulf, does climate legislation appear to have so little momentum in the Senate? Why haven't these signals of the downsides of fossil fuels created more political support for the cause of fighting climate change? Twenty-two years ago, James Hansen testified to the U.S. Senate about the growing threat of climate change. Seven years ago, Senators McCain and...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Jennifer L. Morgan 2010-05-11T19:15:33Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2010-05-11:/climate-change/panelists2010/05/the_suggestion_that_two_accidents.html

Why, after a deadly explosion at a West Virginia coal mine and a massive oil spill in the Gulf, does climate legislation appear to have so little momentum in the Senate? Why haven't these signals of the downsides of fossil fuels created more political support for the cause of fighting climate change? The suggestion that two accidents should generate more support for climate change legislation implies that legislation could reduce risks associated with energy production...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

William O'Keefe