House Democrats Plan to Introduce Greenhouse-Gas [Scam] Bill | washingtonpost.com

Key House Democrats will unveil legislation Tuesday that aims to cut the nation's greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, according to sources familiar with the bill who asked not to be identified.

Washington Times - Coal is winner even in "green" Congress

After two years of campaign rhetoric and months of hearings, Congress is set this week to begin testing whether it can turn the push for renewable energy sought by President Obama into reality.

But the result is likely to fall short of Mr. Obama's goals and, ironically, preserve the primacy of the most abundant and dirtiest fossil fuel: coal.

Environmental groups feel the pinch

Around the first of the year, Public Citizen laid off its air toxics specialist after grant money dried up. The group is hoping to land some more foundation money to retain its global warming team specialist.

Dustin Hoffman wants more sciece in science fiction | Herald Sun

In a poll of hundreds of scientists about bad sci-fi films The Core was voted the worst.

But some also feared Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth damaged the environmental cause by exaggerating certain issues.

Physics professor Sidney Perkowitz said blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow may have done more good than Gore's film.