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Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have joined to oppose attempts by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finding last month that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pose a danger to the public’s health and welfare (see Daily GPI, Dec. 8, 2009).

Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are mulling the possibility of boycotting the mark-up of climate change legislation (S. 1733) — a move that could hang the bill up in committee, a committee spokesman said.

As the standoff between Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee over climate change legislation entered its second day Wednesday, three senators — each from different parties — announced that they plan to take steps to revive the stalled climate effort.

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday voted out climate change legislation (S. 1733) without any amendments as Republicans continued their boycott of the markup (see Daily GPI, Nov. 5).

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) opened a hearing to mark up climate change legislation Tuesday morning, despite the fact that Republican members, unhappy with Environmental Protection Agency analysis of the bill, boycotted the hearing.

Serious debate on the Senate climate change bill (S 1733) is expected to begin this week, as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold three hearings on Chairman Barbara Boxer’s “mark” that was issued Friday. The mark is an updated version of the climate change bill that Boxer and Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced in late September (see Daily GPI, Oct. 1).

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has pushed back her timeline for completing mark-up on climate change legislation to early September.

As it works to reach an understanding with state energy officials, Oregon LNG, one of three proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal projects in Oregon, has been faced with a hesitant Port of Astoria Commission that won an eleventh-hour reprieve in the midst of its inaction on extending a sublease to the LNG development firm for its proposed 96-acre LNG site near the mouth of the Columbia River.

As it works to reach an understanding with state energy officials, Oregon LNG, one of three proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal projects in Oregon, has been faced with a hesitant Port of Astoria Commission that won an eleventh-hour reprieve in the midst of its inaction on extending a sublease to the LNG development firm for its proposed 96-acre LNG site near the mouth of the Columbia River.