Joe Romm: ‘Flawed bill…but only game in town’
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Pielke Jr.: Bill ‘may well have taken its first steps toward a protracted death spiral’
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‘Modern version of medieval book-burning’…Physicist rails on attempts to silence skeptics
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Rep. Markey’s climate bill boast: ‘This is a turning point, in the history of the U.S.’
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Lone GOP supporter: ‘One of the most sweeping, complex bills that Congress has considered’
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House Dem Calls Bill a ‘Ponzi Scheme’ — ‘If the vote was today, I’d vote ‘no’
Excerpt from E&E News – May 22, 2009 (Subscription required)
[Gene] Taylor, an 11-term [Democrat] congressman from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, is not ready to buy into the climate bill. “I think of the whole cap-and-trade idea as a Ponzi scheme,” Taylor said. “I don’t like the idea that one factory is cleaner than it has to be so that another a factory is dirtier than it should be, because historically that factory that’s dirtier than it should be ends up in the South. … If the vote was today, I’d vote ‘no.’
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“As DeGette, Doyle and many other Democrats are already seeing, their job will not be easy. It is going to take more than just one breakfast conversation to explain the intricacies of a 946-page climate bill that was long ago branded by Republicans as an “energy tax.” “As this bill is now out there in the public domain, I think people will understand the extraordinary cost that this will impose to business and working families,” House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said yesterday. “And at the end of the day, that will be what will kill this bill.”
Full article at: E&E News – May 22, 2009 (Subscription:
http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/2009/05/22/1/
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Photo: Model promotes ‘organic bikni’ with low-impact dyes
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‘Conflict is so egregious’: Economic Recovery Advisory Board member is investment partner of Gore
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Starbucks: Global warming poses ‘a direct business threat to our company’
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Group ‘troubled’ by Climate Depot’s media impact…’False Balance Alive & Well’
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