Democrats Push Coal-to-Liquids Energy Plan
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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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Democratic U.S. presidential  hopeful Hillary Clinton wants America to follow Germany's lead  -- and her own -- in using environmentally friendly fuel  sources and making homes and buildings more energy efficient.
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Energy on the political left is helping the Democratic PartyÃ¢ÂÂs presidential candidates significantly outraise their Republican counterparts at the midpoint of this year, according to reports that were filed over the weekend with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
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Congress is making a final push to open a large area of the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, aware the Democratic majority next year is less likely to embrace new offshore energy development.
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WASHINGTON BUREAU; Staff writer Ken Fireman contributed to this story, which was supplemented with news service reports. PITTSBURGH - With Democrats calling on him to sharpen his presidential
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the 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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A proposal to hit oil companies with $29 billion in new taxes advanced in the Senate on Tuesday, targeting the money to energy conservation, wind turbines, electric hybrid cars and clean coal technology.
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Congress looks set to tackle energy legislation -- again.
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Democrats are aiming for a resolution that is simpler than the Senate's.
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Democratic congressional leaders pushed on Tuesday to finish bills to pay for military, veterans health care and domestic programs, while possibly injecting more Iraq war funds into the pipeline, as President George W. Bush again threatened to wield his veto pen.
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By TOM BREEN  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Although most take it for granted, West Virginia has one distinct advantage in the growing race for alternate sources of energy: water.   Without an abundant supply, coal-to-liquids power plants are hard to run.
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U.S. election-year pledges by both presidential candidates to wean the nation from its foreign oil dependence have vote-winning potential but may be just a pipe dream, energy experts say.
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A proposal for the most fundamental overhaul of utility regulation in Massachusetts history -- meant to promote energy conservation while ensuring utilities benefit financially, or at least don't suffer from energy-saving efforts -- is drawing support from an unusually broad coalition of utilities, environmentalists, and energy-sector leaders.
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The top Democratic presidential candidates and Republican John McCain are leading on the issue of energy security and climate change, a new environmental report said on Tuesday.
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Some congressional Democrats raised security concerns Wednesday about a proposed shipment of 300 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the United States to France for conversion into a mixed-oxide fuel.
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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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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.