huffingtonpost.com - 6/27/2009
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As a vote on a controversial climate change bill approached on Friday afternoon, Democrats on the Hill were turning their attention to progressive Democrats rather than attempting to recruit more Republican support for the measure.
The late-stage whip count on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 has produced a particular political irony. A measure crafted by two Democrats in the House of Representatives -- Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) -- over the course ...
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Historic Climate Bill Passes House of Reps
TreeHugger —
Tense Day in Congress In fact, the road to the vote in favor was a bumpy one itself--even if you were to start following the saga from Friday morning. Here's what led up to the vote yesterday, according to reportage from the Huffington Post : After a tense debate, in which the margin of success or failure never moved beyond a handful of votes, the House of Representatives passed the most sweeping climate change policy ever considered by Congress early Friday evening. The outcome had remained up in the air up until the actual vote, with the White House and the president himself ...
Climate-Change Bill Passes But Not All Environmentalists Approve
Daily Greenz, the Blog from Greenzer.com —
new-us-climate-change-bill The newly passed House climate-change bill has not had an easy run, from it’s inception it’s been attacked and modified, and it was with a narrow victory of seven votes that it managed to pass on June 26. Yet the most challenging times may still lay ahead for a bill that environmentalists have both praised as a necessary step in revamping American’s approach to ...
More Hip Than Hippie - Klean Kanteen Konfidential
More Hip Than Hippie Podcast —
... ACES high. The American Clean Energy and Security Act squeaked through the House of Representatives last week. But the landmark climate change bill faces a tough fight in the Senate. ...
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Senate Democrats Ready to Take On Climate Change —
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The recent passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by a narrow margin in the House of Representatives has placed some serious pressure on Senate Democratic leaders, who are furiously scrambling to get the bill passed in the Senate. It seems to be an ...
Monbiot on the U.S. Climate Change Bill —
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Environmental activist, Guardian writer, and author George Monbiot ( bio here ) had a few things to say about the Waxman-Markey (American Clean Energy Attempt of 2009) bill. I’ve reprinted it below. His website is here.
Why does the US Congress act like this bill is a huge victory in ...
The price of climate change —
Ecoearth.info Blog
UTV: The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, better known as the Waxman-Markey bill, is likely to come up for a vote today in the House of Representatives. Most environmentalists, who earlier this year were worried that Barack Obama had too much on his plate to tackle climate change, ...
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