Democrats to stuff 20 bills into post-election lame-duck session - TheHill.com

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is intent on passing a renewable electricity standard.

E2 Morning Roundup: New poll shows public believes in global warming but economy remains dominant concern

But when compared with the economy, jobs and foreign affairs, the environment was rated the most important problem facing the U.S. by only four percent, with energy issues at one percent. The economy was the number one issue at 47 percent, followed by unemployment and jobs at 35 percent and foreign affairs at 10 percent. 
 
Both environment and energy issues also fall far short in head-to-head matchups against job creation, healthcare and education when pollsters ask what’s the more important problem.


USA Pavilion Reaches Carbon Equilibrium at Shanghai Expo

A total of 8,250 tons of carbon offset credits were purchased from three selected Gold Standard-certified projects in China to offset the Pavilion's carbon footprint.

As the first national pavilion committed to be carbon neutral during the entire six months, the USA Pavilion fulfills a pledge to be a green pavilion, a commitment U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made on May 22 during her visit to the Expo.

Hot Air » Exclusive: EPW report shows new EPA rules will cost more than 800,000 jobs

Actually, it’s not just the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s minority contingent that fears the loss of nearly a million jobs from new EPA rules on greenhouse gases and other emissions issues. It’s also groups like the United Steel Workers, Unions for Jobs and the Environment, and experts like King’s College Professor Ragnar Lofstedt. Hot Air got an exclusive look at a report that the EPW minority staff will release later this morning detailing the economic damage that an activist EPA will do to the American economy, and which will come at perhaps the worst possible time, both economically and politically.

Mark Tapscott: Loads of campaign cash make Big Green a Democratic powerhouse UPDATED! | Washington Examiner

Officials of a dozen top Big Green environmental groups contributed more than $14.5 million to congressional and presidential candidates in 2008 and through the second quarter of 2010 with 96 percent of the total going to Democrats, according to an Examiner analysis of federal campaign data.