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Biotech Bugaboos: Waxman, Weak Hands or the Fed?
2014-03-25 16:30:27| Biotech - Topix.net
The 12% tumble in biotech stocks the last month has been attributed to the flight of "generalist" investors - those lily-livered greenhorns - or, more recently, Rep. Henry Waxman and his merry band of congressional inquisitors .
Waxman poetic: Climate hawk leaves an impressive stache of green achievements
2014-01-31 00:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: To young environmentalists, Rep. Henry Waxmans (D-Calif.) name is virtually synonymous with climate action. In the heady days of November 2008, after President Obamas landslide victory, it seemed as if a cap and trade bill might actually pass Congress. Democrats controlled the House, Senate, and White House. There was only one problem: House Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.), who represented the automakers and was subservient to what he perceived as their interests. Like a mustachioed...
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Waxman: Climate regs wont revive legislation
2013-07-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obamas second-term push to complete greenhouse gas regulations wont revive prospects for climate change legislation on Capitol Hill, a top Democrat said. The Republicans who run our committee deny the science. So theres not hope for legislation, said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on the C-SPAN program Newsmakers airing this weekend. Some advocates have speculated that as regulations draw closer, coal-reliant power...
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Markey, Waxman Report Highlights Gaps in Grid Security; APPA Responds
2013-05-22 16:13:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Drawing from responses from more than 100 utilities across America, a new report released yesterday shows that the nations electric grid remains highly vulnerable to attacks from Iran and North Korea, or other threats like geomagnetic storms from solar activity. read more
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Help Henry Waxman write a new carbon-tax bill
2013-03-13 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: One of the common criticisms of the cap-and-trade effort - well-captured in sociologist Theda Skocpol`s after-battle report [PDF] - is that the legislation was crafted almost entirely behind closed doors, first between green groups and corporations in the USCAP coalition, then between horse-trading members of Congress. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has heard this criticism and acted on it. Waxman, cosponsor of the climate bill that passed the House in 2009, is one of the great unsung heroes...