Democratic Senator Urges Energy Reform
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Congress must pass legislation to protect the nation's electricity grid if it wants to avoid repeats of the devastating outages that rolled across eight states last year, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said Saturday.
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As the Senate began debate on an energy bill, top Democrats were proposing to provide $10 billion in loans for plants that make diesel fuel from coal.
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Democrats planning a hefty increase in fuel-economy requirements for cars face opposition from one of their own, John D. Dingell.
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Three powerful lobbying forces &#151; automakers, electric utilities and the coal industry &#151; are confounding Democrats' efforts to forge a less-polluting energy policy.
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Democrats and Republicans should work together to find new ways to end poverty, curb government corruption and strengthen families, Rev. Jim Wallis said Saturday.
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Senate Democrats proposed a requirement Wednesday that 15 percent of the nation's electricity be produced by wind, biomass and other renewable energy sources.
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A group of Senate Democrats from coal-rich states is drafting an amendment to proposed energy legislation that would provide as much as $10 billion in federal loans to pay for capturing and storing greenhouse gases produced by plants that would turn coal into liquid transportation fuels or...
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A key Democratic senator asked the Justice Department on Monday for an update on its progress prosecuting government employees who were accused in at least 17 cases of abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Democrats gave big increases to programs aimed at making cars and buildings more energy efficient and boosting research and development of alternative energy sources in legislation approved Wednesday by the House Appropriations Committee.
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Democrats running Congress will likely not be able to pass climate legislation with mandatory limits on "greenhouse" gases without help from President Bush, the chairman of the Senate's energy panel said Monday.
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By DIRK LAMMERS  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would entice farmers located near ethanol biorefineries to grow dedicated energy crops.  Sen.
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With U.S. gasoline prices near record levels, the Senate is to take up an energy bill today that Democratic leaders hope will be a rallying point for voters concerned about national security and climate change as well as pump prices.
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Congress and the White House need to work together to get the U.S. economy back on track, a leading Senate Democrat said Saturday.
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Democratic leaders anticipated a close vote as the Senate prepared to consider an energy bill that supporters say will mark a new direction and move the country away from gas-guzzling cars and toward greater reliance on nonfossil fuels.
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By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON - As motorists face near record gasoline prices, the Senate took up an energy bill Tuesday that would raise auto fuel economy standards for the first time in nearly 20 years and make oil industry price gouging a federal crime.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the  U.S. House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted  Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide  emissions this year.
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Democrats in the U.S. House of  Representatives on Friday introduced a bill that would rescind  billions of dollars worth of tax incentives extended to U.S.  energy companies and put the money into a fund earmarked for  renewable energy.