Devoid of American participation, the international market in carbon dioxide emissions is a partly formed creature whose health remains uncertain.

A discussion on the Climate Security Act. Paul Bledsoe and John Rowe are featured.

Eileen McMenamin is the new communications director for the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank and advocacy organization that pursues nonpartisan policies.

WASHINGTON, May 31 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers could reap a $24.5 billion paycheck every year from low-carbon practices like collecting methane from livestock and using low-till crop methods if the U.S. Congress passes a bill to cut U.S. emissions of heat-trapping gases, according to a report to be released on Monday.

A revised version of greenhouse gas cap-and-trade legislation set for Senate floor debate in early June includes a new provision aimed at containing industry compliance costs...

Mentions of Eileen McMenamin joining the Bipartisan Policy Center in Politico, Media Bistro, Potomac Flacks, and Hotline's Wake-up Call.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 12 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Eisenhower Fellowships has announced that it will present the 2008 Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service to former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Between them, they helped negotiate peace in Northern Ireland, investigated the extent of steroid use in baseball and instigated broad changes in veteran's health care.

Four former Senate majority leaders have joined forces to form the latest bipartisan group taking aim at healthcare reform — a movement they expect to be led by the next president.

(Washington, D.C.) – The Wildlife Management Institute joined by eight of the nation’s leading hunting and fishing membership organizations, today released a new report – Seasons’ End; Global Warming’s Threat to Hunting and Fishing – detailing the predicted impacts of climate change on the fish and wildlife habitat and the future of hunting and fishing in the United States.

Former Senator Slade Gorton, Former Congressmen Sherwood Boehlert and Martin Sabo and Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner to Discuss Road Map to Transportation Policy Reform

IT HAS BEEN WIDELY reported since Super Tuesday that John McCain has effectively sewn up the Republican nomination for president but must still convince enough American conservatives that he stands as heir to Ronald Reagan. This poses an obstacle to his election in November.

WASHINGTON DC: Former Senate Majority Leaders Baker, Daschle, Dole and Mitchell today announced that the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) - a policy driven organization the four leaders founded last year - is establishing the National Transportation Policy Project which will focus on creating a new, pragmatic vision for U.S. transportation policy.

By: David Makovsky, Simon Henderson, and Michael Makovsky

Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Date: 12/14/07

On December 17, a donor conference will convene in Paris with the goal of bolstering Palestinian governance in the West Bank -- the first such meeting since the 2006 Stockholm conference.

January 13-15, 2007 - Emil Frankel, BPC’s Director of Transportation Policy will be participating on three panels during the 87th Annual Conference of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) to be held in Washington, DC. Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008, Panelist in a workshop titled, “Emerging Debate About New Systems for Transportation Finance and Funding Approaches for the Future,” 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Washington Hilton, Lincoln East Room; Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, Moderator for a panel on “Reauthorization and Climate Change: Federal, State, and Local Roles,” 1:30 PM to 3:15 PM, Washington Hilton, Lincoln West Room; Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008, Discussant for a panel on “Goods Movement: Using Economics,” 8 AM to 9:45 AM. Washington Hilton Frankel served as the Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy for the U.S. Department of Transportation from 2002 to 2005 under...

January 15, 2007 - Joshua Schank, BPC’s Director of Transportation Research for the National Transportation Policy Project, will be speaking at the Transportation Research Board’s 87th Annual Meeting. His presentation titled, “Freight Transportation Planning: Benchmarking and Best Practices,” will take place from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the Hemisphere Room at the Washington Hilton. He will also be presenting a poster session on that same topic from 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. on Monday, January 14th in the International Center of the Washington Hilton. Schank served as Transportation Policy Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton. He previously worked as a consultant with Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world’s largest transportation planning and engineering firms.

Presentations and reports from the Sept. 24 meeting on Agricultural Carbon Markets

Author: Michael Makovsky

Source: Wall Street Journal

Date: 08/16/07

The expected withdrawal of British forces from southern Iraq highlights a critical but little discussed aspect of the conflict: The security of the southern oil sector, which is essential to Iraqi stability and important to the international oil market.

By: Michael Makovsky

Source: Weekly Standard

03/19/07

Volume 012, Issue 22

On March 27, 2003, Paul Wolfowitz, then deputy secretary of defense, predicted that Iraq's oil revenue would "finance" its reconstruction and do so "relatively soon." With wise investment and management, Wolfowitz might have been right. Even though its oil sector accounts for 95 percent of the Iraqi state's revenue and is essential to the country's ability to one day pay its own way, the United States has yet to make a serious effort to boost the Iraqi oil industry, which controls the second or third largest reserves (mostly undeveloped) in the world. President George W. Bush's recent Iraq plan is no better in this regard.

By: Ernest May
Source: Bipartisan Policy Center

Reminiscing about Gerald Ford, Washington veterans marveled at how much less acrimonious were relations between Republicans and Democrats during his presidency, despite the Vietnam War and Watergate.