U.S. Republicans plot death of EPA climate rules | Energy & Oil | Reuters

"I think we're going to have a very amiable and frankly enjoyable time addressing these things," said a confident Republican Senator James Inhofe, a leading critic of steps to address global warming, which he has dismissed as a hoax.
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He noted that several Democratic senators from coal-producing and coal-consuming states are up for re-election in two years and they might cooperate with Republicans working to kill the EPA regulations.

"Those Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012, they can't continue to walk the plank with Obama," Inhofe said.

The wind industry fights back | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Still, the anti-wind editorial claims other inefficiencies, and uses a study by Christopher C. Horner to argue that, “the stimulus bill's subsidies for renewable energy cost taxpayers about $475,000 for every job generated. That's at least four times what it costs a non-subsidized private firm to create a job, a lousy return on investment even for government.” This point should be discussed and analyzed from a fair and actually balanced perspective. But quoting Horner may not be the way to have that discussion. Horner is, among other things, a best-selling author whose books include, “Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud and Deception to Keep You Misinformed” and “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism.”

Pants lead way in new climate change initiative

"Our slogan which is ‘Await the great climate catastrophe in our pants and socks. Or still better let's go all out to avert it'.