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11.02.2009 2:32 pm

Bond, GOP won’t show for climate-change bill mark-up

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond

Sen. Bond

WASHINGTON — Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s red pen will stay in his pocket during Tuesday’s mark-up of the sweeping cap-and-trade climate bill.

That’s because Bond and his six fellow Republicans on the 19-member Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will boycott the mark-up…

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03.05.2009 12:11 pm

Cow Tax? Moooove On, says Farm Bureau

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Aside from beef and milk, cows make a lot of something else: methane.

Which is why if the Environmental Protection Agency comes to regulate greenhouse gasses, cattle farms could be subjected to new permits and fees — a separate field…

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