{"id":375111,"date":"2010-03-01T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=6671"},"modified":"2010-03-01T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:50:49","slug":"what-to-expect-this-week-bp-the-kerry-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375111","title":{"rendered":"What To Expect This Week: BP, The Kerry Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/biofuel.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Biofuel\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow British oil and gas company BP is releasing its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bp.com\/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9021974&amp;contentId=7040780\" >2010 capital expenditure program<\/a>. Expect company Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward to reaffirm his company&#8217;s focus on its oil and gas business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/02\/bp-cuts-expenses-at-renewable-energy-unit-by-4-bln\/\" >Last quarter BP posted a fourth-quarter profit of $4.3 billion<\/a> after losing $3.34 billion in the prior-year period. For the year, BP earned $16.58 billion. Most of that revenue was generated by the company&#8217;s upstream and downstream oil and gas business.<span id=\"more-6671\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On clean energy, a sector BP until a few years actively anchored its marketing outreach, Hayward will likely announced continued investments in biofuel\u00a0businesses in Latin America and in its <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/12\/australian-mining-giant-sells-dubai-ccs-project-to-bp\/\" >recently acquired carbon capture and storage project<\/a> in the United Arab Emirates. Don&#8217;t expect new investments in wind outside the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington as the White House works to revive its healthcare overhaul, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) is trying to do the same with his climate change bill.\u00a0 Kerry<a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/02\/john-kerry-tri-partisan-climate-bill-close\/\" > is working in a tri-partisan coalition,<\/a> comprised of\u00a0 Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.), and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-Conn.), to try to find a bill that can attract sixty votes.<\/p>\n<p>On the Kerry bill expect supporters to point out that the alternative is an unattractive, rigid, EPA-led regulatory regime. The opposition will likely make light on a series of stumble by the climate change scientific community, including most recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/02\/new-york-times-trots-out-same-old-climate-skeptics-for-attack-on-ipcc\/\" >criticism on the on the U.N.\u2019s <\/a>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) own scientific conclusion on human-made climate change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/rYm_RIzcw0E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow British oil and gas company BP is releasing its 2010 capital expenditure program. Expect company Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward to reaffirm his company&#8217;s focus on its oil and gas business. Last quarter BP posted a fourth-quarter profit of $4.3 billion after losing $3.34 billion in the prior-year period. For the year, BP earned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}