Potential carbon-capping law a 'life-changer for all of us' - CharlotteObserver.com

“This shift is going to be a life-changer for all of us,” said Lee Lushbaugh, fossil power chief for Bechtel Power Corp., which designs and builds power plants.

POLITICO Interview: Gov. Tim Pawlenty  [Again, no mention of global warming]

POLITICO: What are the issues I’m going to hear you talking about in the next month, two months, three months?

PAWLENTY: You’re going to hear me talking first of all about the bread and butter issues that we’ve been talking about here, specifically: jobs, the economy, taxes, spending, health care and education reform.

US unions, green groups unleash climate change campaign - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A coalition of US environmental groups and major labor unions on Wednesday unveiled a national campaign to refute charges that legislation to battle climate change would cost US jobs in a recession.

"The fact of the matter is, you're either going to have both, or you'll have neither," Leo Gerard, the head of the United Steelworkers union, told reporters on a conference call to announce the 50-stop, 22-state push.

"This is about creating good family-supporting jobs as we do the right thing for the planet," said Gerard, who predicted that legislation to fight global warming would create hundreds of thousands of jobs "if we do it right."
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"And if you make real things that will reduce our carbon footprint, and create good family-supporting jobs in America, that ought to be the direction this country is going in. I've have enough of Wall Street throwing up on my shoes because they pigged out at the candy store," he said.