Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Tom Carper

Environmentalists, Transpo Reformers Brace for Scaled-Back Energy Bill

By John Burgess Everett | Jul 27, 2010 | No Comments

"We know we don’t have the votes." With those seven words last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dashed hopes for a comprehensive climate bill. Prospects also dimmed for a transportation component in the final energy legislation that emerges from the Senate. Reid is expected to announce that plan later today. Harry Reid indicated last […]

Senate Climate Bill Triples the House’s Investments in Clean Transportation

By Elana Schor | Oct 26, 2009 | No Comments

The Senate environment committee released new details of its climate change legislation over the weekend, including the share of "emissions allowances" — the revenue generated by regulating carbon in a cap-and-trade system — that the bill would reserve for various sectors of the American economy. Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), the climate […]

Carper: Climate Bill Must Focus on Transport, Not Just Power Plants

By Elana Schor | Aug 19, 2009 | No Comments

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), chief sponsor of a plan to give green transportation 10 percent of the emissions allowances in the upcoming climate change bill, took to the pages of his home-state newspaper yesterday with an op-ed that begins with a pithy description of "the problem": Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) (Photo: DTI) We use a […]