Lugar: Constituent letters in July ran 8,000-56 against climate legislation

Hoosier Senators Feeling Heat, May Be Hard Sell on Climate - NYTimes.com

[Lugar] said too many compromises were made on the House side, leaving little certainty that the measure would do anything to control warming temperatures. Meanwhile, the senator received 8,000 letters in July from his constituents slamming climate legislation. In the same time frame, some 56 supporters contacted his office.

"That's not a scientific poll, but that's the sentiment in my state, and that's a fairly large number of people on a subject that isn't even on the Senate floor yet," Lugar said. The Senate is not expected to release its version of climate legislation until September.
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A farmer himself, Lugar planted black walnut trees on his property and had the action listed in 2006 as carbon credits on the Chicago Climate Exchange, a voluntary program for trading greenhouse gases. The exchange could benefit handsomely from the Waxman-Markey plan.