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Salazar couldn’t fend off Tipton — even with ‘no’ votes on climate, energy bills

By | 11.03.10 | 8:34 pm

U.S. Rep. John Salazar, a Blue Dog Democrat in Colorado’s sprawling and largely rural 3rd Congressional District who conceded to Republican Scott Tipton earlier today, may have actually hurt himself by not voting in favor of climate change

China to institute cap-and-trade system

By | 07.23.10 | 9:37 am

The same day that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced that he did not have the votes to pass a cap-and-trade bill, even a scaled-down utility-only version, news broke that China has decided to institute its own cap-and-trade…

Udall ‘disappointed’ in Reid decision to scrap climate bill

By | 07.22.10 | 5:05 pm

Colorado Sen. Mark Udall Thursday reacted with “disappointment” to the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pull the plug on a comprehensive climate bill that had been lingering on life support for months anyway.

With nowhere near…

New offshore drilling would amount to roughly 1 percent of demand

By | 05.12.10 | 2:51 pm

As the scramble continues to plug the oil gusher a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico — and as Senate Democrats promote their long-awaited proposal designed to tackle climate change — Al Gore offers a…

Sens. Udall and Bennet seek to have it both ways on cap-and-trade bill

By | 11.16.09 | 4:37 pm

Colorado U.S. Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet with 12 other Senate Democrats signed onto a letter (pdf) urging Senate leaders weighing climate legislation to consider granting valuable credits to utilities that rely most heavily on coal. Udall and…