Afraid of defeat: Al Gore cancels DC trip on behalf of Waxman-Markey « Green Hell Blog

...does Gore figure that the House vote will be so close that he doesn’t want to risk personal embarrassment in the event that Waxman-Markey goes down to defeat?

Waxman-Markey: [Much gnashing of teeth] - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

Michael O’Hare is not so inclined toward optimism. Writing at the Reality Based Community, he says “It’s not easy to exaggerate just how bad this is.”

Waxman-Markey has been savaged on the implicit principle that climate stabilization is good, but only if no-one important has to actually do anything different to accomplish it. Among the people who get a pass are anyone who burns coal, and anyone who grows corn or makes fuel out of it; I was worried months ago that a president from a coal state and a corn state might be a problem, but then he promised flatly that in his administration, science was not going to be yoked to a political ox. Boy, is the bloom off this rose: DADT, climate and energy, transparency… “Better than Bush in some ways” is a mighty big comedown from the PR of a few months ago.

Iowa Independent » Latham moves to kill climate change bill

Iowa Republican Rep. Tom Latham of Ames will introduce an amendment to proposed climate change legislation that would kill the measure if energy prices increase down the road.

The amendment, which Latham said he would introduce Thursday, would force an automatic repeal of the bill designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions if it is determined that electricity prices are increased in the wake of the new policy being implemented.