No, liberals did not ‘overreach’ on climate | Grist

Meanwhile, fossil-fuel companies mounted an enormous lobbying and propaganda campaign against the bill. Oil and gas companies outspent green advocacy groups by over seven to one; if you add Big Coal in there it's probably more like 10 to one. Exxon alone spent $27.4 million in 2009 to lobby against the bill, more than the entire environmental lobby combined.

Twitter / Peter Daou

Debate raging again over @Markos's American Taliban. Right's climate denial alone could wreak more havoc than anything Taliban can muster.

Feinstein: Interior spending bill off calendar over EPA climate rules - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) — who oversees the Appropriations panel’s subcommittee overseeing Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency spending — said debate on the appropriations bill in the committee is indefinitely postponed, in part over concerns about efforts to delay EPA climate regulations.

National Weather Highlight for 9 / 15 / 10: September chill: Flint, MI ties record low - Raleigh Weather | Examiner.com

Autumn conditions have dug into Michigan: the low temperature on the morning of Wednesday 9 / 15 was a record-tying 38 at Flint, MI.

Climate legislation is dead. So why is the greentech sector booming? - By Eric Lukas | The Oil and the Glory

Why are investors still sinking money into renewables despite the funding gridlock in Washington? Because they understand that, regardless of the apparent death of cap-and-trade on Capitol Hill, some other form of clean-energy requirement is likely.