Enviro poll: Battleground-state voters want EPA calling the shots on climate - The Hill's E2-Wire

“What this poll demonstrates is that the public trusts the EPA to do its job to protect public health and limit dangerous pollution and does not want Congress to stand in the way of necessary safeguards,” said League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski in statement. “Americans want scientists at the EPA, not politicians in Congress, to determine air pollution limits."

Energy Tax Prevention Act: The Only End to Cap and Trade - HUMAN EVENTS

The evidence is in: The Obama Environmental Protection Agency’s cap-and-trade agenda is destroying jobs and decreasing domestic energy supplies. That agenda is slowing our economic recovery. It will mean higher gas and electricity bills for consumers.

Congress can stop this attack on jobs and affordable energy by passing the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The bill would stop EPA’s cap-and-trade regulations, which are designed to make the energy we use more expensive.

Chris Mooney | Get Ready for More Congressional Doubt-Mongering on Climate

This sort of thing has been going on in the US Congress for a long time—for over a decade. So in a sense, one more doubt-mongering hearing doesn’t move the cultural confusion needle much.

The real problem, for me, is that our culture’s outrage meter seems similarly calibrated.