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Contrary to Klugman's analysis, big corporate energy producers were among the first to line up to feed at the carbon-tax trough. But even their complicity couldn't make this global warming bus run. So much for alternative fuels driving change, eh?

Obama's climate 'Plan B' in hot water - POLITICO.com

Key coal-state Democrats and nearly all Republicans are also unified in their bid to slow down the EPA via legislation — and they’re determined to force a series of votes on the issue before the next big suite of rules start kicking in next January.

“You attack it at all fronts,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a leading advocate for stopping the EPA, told POLITICO. “You go the judicial route. You go the legislative route. I think this is important to make sure we are looking at all avenues.”
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“I don’t know if its backyard barbeque grills [Will Weber grills still be allowed near NOAA thermometers?] or hitting small business,” said Robert Stavins, a Harvard University economist who has been working on climate rules for several decades. ”But there will be some regulation that looks silly that just becomes a poster child for the right. And it could lead to less, rather than more, national enthusiasm on climate policy. And people on the right recognize that.”