{"id":523072,"date":"2010-04-10T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T02:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8115"},"modified":"2010-04-10T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T02:21:08","slug":"improbable-senate-alliance-could-create-an-american-waste-biomass-energy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523072","title":{"rendered":"Improbable Senate Alliance Could Create an American Waste Biomass Energy Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/waste_pine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8160\" title=\"waste_pine\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/waste_pine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFreshman Democratic Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Jean Shaheen (D-NH) have been joined by Republican Senators Mike  Crapo(D-ID) and Lisa Murkowski (D-K) in announcing breakthrough bipartisan support for a  little-utilized form of renewable energy, with major implications for greenhouse gas reductions in the US in the American Renewable Biomass Heating Act.<\/p>\n<p>Their legislation would expand the  use of waste biomass in high-efficiency heating systems  in commercial and industrial buildings, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brighterenergy.org\/8251\/news\/bioenergy\/bill-could-create-us-market-for-large-scale-biomass-heat\/\">Brighter     Energy<\/a> reports, by expansion of 30%  tax credits to exceed the   $1,500 limit, and to extend past the current expiration date of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Previously both Republicans had joined the now routine minority filibuster to prevent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00150\"> extending expiring renewable energy tax credits<\/a>, not once but<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00190\"> twice<\/a>, both voted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00219\">no<\/a> on ensuring that when fuel is defined as renewable that it not hurt the environment, and both filibustered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00412\">against  tax credits for renewable biomass<\/a>, in particular.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/10\/improbable-senate-alliance-could-create-an-american-waste-biomass-energy-industry\/#more-8115\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Democratic Senators Mark Begich (D-AK) and Jean Shaheen (D-NH) have been joined by Republican Senators Mike Crapo(D-ID) and Lisa Murkowski (D-K) in announcing breakthrough bipartisan support for a little-utilized form of renewable energy, with major implications for greenhouse gas reductions in the US in the American Renewable Biomass Heating Act. Their legislation would expand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523072","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\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}