Obama’s Revenue Plans Hit Resistance in Congress - NYTimes.com

At the same time, lawmakers of both parties have warned against moving too quickly on a plan to auction carbon emission permits to produce more than $600 billion.

The unwillingness to embrace some of the major White House tax and revenue proposals has frustrated administration officials. They note that lawmakers, many of them supporters of the president’s ambitious agenda, clamor to hold down the deficit while balking at the proposals to finance his program.

Nice headline from A Siegel, who evidently doesn't know the difference between carbon MONoxide and carbon DIoxide: "Boehner Flagrantly Flaunts ASS on Broadcast TV"

In a rather astounding, inappropriate for youth moment, House Minority Leader John Boehner chose to put his ASS on display. Anti-Science Syndrome, that is.
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John, if CO2 is nothing to worry about, why not electric tape closed your garage (with you inside, with no innocents in there with you) and run a natural gas heater for awhile to have more of that CO2?

Duke Energy protest preview // CLT Blog in Charlotte, NC

Tomorrow’s a big day for protesters hoping to convince Duke Energy to halt construction on their new Cliffside Coal Plant, or “steam station” as the power company likes to call them.
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Ever wondered why people are so concerned about coal plants? Check out the Sierra Club’s “The Dirty Truth About Coal” brochure. To sum up: it’s wasteful, the CO2 coal plants produce antagonizes global warming, it’s too expensive (wind and solar are cheaper says Grant Smith, Executive Director of Citizen’s Action Coalition), and — don’t forget — the pollution can make you very sick and even kill you.

See who was at the training, what they were up to, and a few more pictures of the Riverbend Steam Station...