Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Now Do Something About Climate Change. | Green Business | Reuters

The current amelioration mechanism on the table -- Waxman-Markey -- seems to be in trouble. First, the bill has not been very effectively communicated or sold to the American public. Second, it seems to be subsumed beneath the health care media juggernaut. Finally, agrobusiness interests have been successfully gaining a foothold in tying up the process.

We need to get on with it. Cap-and-trade or carbon tax, regulation of GHG under the Clean Air Act, green building market and regulatory programs. Either that, or be prepared to host a giant tropical cockroach at your next seder.

Shari Shapiro, J.D., LEED AP, is an associate with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP in Philadelphia. She heads the company's green building initiative...

Begich to lead climate change [fraud] tour - KTUU.com | Alaska's news and information source |

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- U.S. Sen. Mark Begich is planning to bring some senators to Alaska in August for a climate change tour.

The Alaska Democrat is organizing the trip with California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Committee on Environment and Public Works.

The tentative schedule includes visits to eroding villages in western Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula and its forests damaged by spruce bark beetles and receding glaciers.

Also on the tentative schedule are meetings with climate change experts.

Climate Change Bill Stalls Over Agriculture Concerns - Political News - FOXNews.com

A key Democrat said Friday that he doesn't see any way party leaders could bring a controversial, energy and climate change bill to the floor for debate next week because of concerns coming from the agriculture industry.

"I don't see how we do that," said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson D-Minn.

Peterson's comments came after a negotiating session "blew up" Thursday night as he and other key players tried to forge a deal.

"I'm tired of going around in circles," an exasperated Peterson said. "I'm trying to translate for people who speak Urdu and French. And I don't speak either."

As Moderate Democrats kill health care reform so goes Climate Change

As moderate Democrats kills health care reform, so goes Climate Change. Moderate Democrats have sided with Republicans in the House looking to hoot down health care reform. The White house unveiled a plan yesterday that contained no mention of costs. Unfortunately, it looks like the stimulus bill sapped all interest in other major government initiatives.
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...Another outcome awaited is the lawsuit between Indec, a New York state utility with high cost energy supply contracts that will go out of business with the RGGI program. Indec says that only the Congress and the EPA has the right to regulate carbon emissions and that a regional program violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution by unfairly taxing one region of the country while other areas are not discriminated against. Indec will win but the time the RGGI is shut down, the national program will be up and running.