Critics challenge ‘green’ fuel claims - The Boston Globe

Yet supporters say burning trees is important because, in the end, they don’t add any heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere that contribute to global warming. Biomass power plants do emit these gases, supporters say, but the same amount is reabsorbed by new trees planted to replace the burned ones - essentially recycling the pollutants over and over again. Fossil fuels, like coal, are extracted from deep in the earth and add extra gases to the atmosphere. Decades of burning fossil fuels has emitted so many heat-trapping gases, there is no natural way to absorb them all.

Nancy Pelosi on being unpopular: 'I don't care' - Glenn Thrush - POLITICO.com

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the most despised political figures in the country.

And, frankly, she doesn’t give a damn.

“No, I don’t care,” Pelosi told POLITICO last Thursday, laughing heartily as she walked beneath the Capitol dome and plunged into a crowd of tourists.

Last week’s Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO poll brought grim news for Pelosi, revealing that only a quarter of Americans trust the San Francisco Democrat — putting her in the basement with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).
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Republicans have tried unsuccessfully to leverage Pelosi’s problems against Democratic candidates for the past three cycles. But they believe the speaker has given them an opening in 2010 by moving so quickly on the cap-and-trade bill, which could be a drag on Democrats in about a dozen battleground districts.

The NRCC has spent the better part of the month hammering away at freshman members such as Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.), arguing that the vote will lead to the loss of jobs and a huge increase in utility rates.

“Her obsession over the cap-and-trade legislation has created a backlash among the rank and file, who are reluctant to cast another bad vote, and as a result, she appears to have put the president’s agenda in jeopardy,” added Spain, the NRCC’s spokesman.