On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly attacked us for publishing an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle -- called "Will America lose the clean energy race?" (a longer version was posted here at Huffington Post.). In that piece, we urged Congress to fully fund...

[Updated with correction, 6/18/09: Thanks to John Larson at WRI for alerting us to an error in our data. Our data is now corrected and impacted figures and conclusions have been bolded in the text below so readers can see what has changed. An updated spreadsheet has been uploaded....

Advocates of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454, or "ACES" for short) argue that the bill is far more than just a climate bill. It's a comprehensive piece of clean energy, efficiency and climate legislation, and taken as a whole, they argue, it should be considered...

[Updated 6/18/09 to more clearly explain and depict the potential banking of offsets.]

At the heart of the nearly thousand page long climate change and clean energy bill being debated in the U.S. House of Representatives this week is a "cap and trade" mechanism aimed at limiting greenhouse gas...

[Updated 5/22/09: the ACES bill now includes a $10/ton price floor for auctioned pollution permits. The analysis below has been updated to reflect that change in the legislation]

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee began markup of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES). The bill...

For advocates of immediate and strong climate and clean energy legislation, there's one man we should all be paying close attention to: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH).

Senator Brown is one of several Democratic Senators from America's 'Heartland' states that form the critical swing block of legislators that will need...

From St. Louis and Philadelphia, to Columbus and Denver, Focus the Nation's Clean Energy Town Halls bring youth, community members and elected officials together to find clean energy solutions and plan sustained action.

Forget Seattle and Berkeley. Move over Portland and Boston. When it comes to deciding America's energy...

[Update 4/17/09: Video statement from Van Jones, Special Adviser to the President for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation added]

In over 159 Congressional districts all across the country, citizens both young and old are coming together to organize Clean Energy Town Hall events and Focus the Nation on...

Guest post by Alex Tinker

Congressman Cao Event Streams Live Today from New Orleans at www.FocusTheNation.org (6PM EST); Elected officials address citizens, Focus the Nation in video statements here

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) joined students from Drexel University, community members and business leaders for a discussion on tackling...

Yesterday, Congress began the debate that will determine our nation's energy future. Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced a mammoth 648-page bill designed to fundamentally change the way we make...

Writing today for the New York Times, Matthew Wald looks at the increased prospects for new coal plants that capture and store their CO2, due to investments in CCS demonstration plants included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Writing about Duke Energy's plans to build a...

Part Three: An Expansive Movement and the Fight Ahead

By Jesse Jenkins, reporting for the Energy Collective and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

This is the part three of a three-part series taking an in-depth look at the youth climate movement and the stories the mainstream media...

Part Two: Strength in a Diversity of Tactics

By Jesse Jenkins, reporting for the Energy Collective and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

This is the part two of a three-part series taking an in-depth look at the youth climate movement and the stories the mainstream media missed...

Part One: A Growing Movement Comes of Age

By Jesse Jenkins, reporting for the Energy Collective and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

This is the part one of a three-part series taking an in-depth look at the youth climate movement and the stories the mainstream media missed...

An Introduction: Beyond the Numbers (and the Irony)

By Jesse Jenkins, reporting for the Energy Collective and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

On February 27th-March 1st, 12,000 young leaders from all fifty states, every Canadian province, and about a dozen other nations convened at the Washington D.C....

By Jesse Jenkins, reporting for the Energy Collective and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary

After a long weekend at Power Shift 2009, I'm pretty exhausted. I'll publish a full recap soon of today's historic events at Capitol Hill, which saw thousands of young activists brave...

Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute

For those paying close attention, there was a nugget of critical energy and climate policy news buried at the tail end of a Saturday New York Times story focused on President Obama's budget plans:

By Professor Gregory Bothun and Jesse Jenkins

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama signed into law the $787 billion economic stimulus package. The stimulus directs more than $80 billion to start the construction of a new, national clean energy infrastructure. Many are hailing this clean energy investment as...

By Jesse Jenkins and Teryn Norris

The Brookings Institution officially unveiled a new proposal yesterday calling for "a new paradigm in energy innovation" at an event at the National Press Club in...

By Adam Solomon Zemel and Jesse Jenkins. Originally posted at the Breakthrough Institute

Barack Obama's stance on energy issues is not the easiest to discern. While Obama the orator's language regarding energy has been inspiring - he's eloquently spoken of the need take bold steps and transform America's energy...