'Serious' climate talks hinge on U.S. bill: lawmaker | Reuters

One of the challenges facing the climate bill is the crowded legislative agenda. U.S. President Barack Obama has also made health care reform a top priority -- leaving Congress to take on a thorny and emotional issue that Americans have been debating for decades.

"These are the top two priorities of the President and the Congress and so they're going to be moving along simultaneously this fall within the legislative process," Markey told reporters after his speech. "Each of them will require, to some extent, success on the other. It's important for us to move forward on these together because the opponents of them are using both bills as reasons why President Obama is taking us in the wrong direction and we have to make the counter-argument that it's why he's taking us in the right direction."

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The Ugly Numbers for Global Warming Legislation

Once again, class: Everyone wants to ensure our kids grow up in a clean environment. Some just want to bankrupt us while doing it, and some of us would prefer a more logical route.

Herbert may keep four-day workweek - Salt Lake Tribune

This summer, state workers also got serious about reducing personal energy use on the job -- by unplugging phone chargers and microwaves at night, and turning off computers and printers at the end of the work day, for example.