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On Wednesday, dirty energy lobbyists took a big step towards achieving a long-cherished goal: shredding the Clean Air Act. Leaks from a closed-door meeting between these industries and Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsay Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) suggest some serious challenges for the future of our fight against climate change. One can make the argument that the progress displayed by the leak of a draft Senate roadmap on Wednesday is at least somewhat encouraging since it shows evidence  

These are just a few of the examples of policies brought to light by the media in recent months that leave many Americans feeling like second-class citizens without the rights that their peers and colleagues take for granted. While every member of the LGBT community is affected by the outcome of these initiatives, most of us felt assured that today's youth would be safe -- at least for now -- from the repercussions of our nation's homophobic policies. This year, however, as our nation enters a new decade,  

"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday about the reconciliation package. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill." So Speaker Pelosi will "deem" the $875 billion Senate healthcare reform bill to have already passed the House, a process the Post 's editorial page says "threatens to turn into something unseemly."  

The top Republican contenders for governor of Wisconsin still hold modest leads over the likely Democratic nominee, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker leading Barrett 48% to 42%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.  

Some news about the climate change legislation being developed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) emerged from meetings they had with industry representatives. According to several sources in the meeting room, the bill will call for greenhouse gas curbs across multiple economic sectors, with a target of reducing emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050. Power plant emissions would be regulated in 2012, with other major industri  

On the heels of Senator John Kerry promising to produce in the next two weeks an energy and global warming bill that can pass the U.S. Senate, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed, along with 12 other senators recently sent Majority Leader Harry Reid a letter urging him to ensure that the bill does not repeal Clean Air Act protections that require coal-fired power plants to meet modern standards for global warming pollution. "We applaud Senators Whitehouse and Reed for fighting for a bill that will  

"The cap-and-trade bills in the House and Senate are dead." Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) reflected the reality that Congress now faces as it negotiates a comprehensive climate and energy package that might get voted on before this November's congressional elections. One alternative to cap-and-trade has been a cap-and-dividend bill sponsored by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).

It will be a very different mix of a bill from where we were at the end of the House effort   -John Kerry

 

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew into Moscow on Thursday for talks aimed at clinching a new START nuclear missile treaty, amid worries that American and Russian lawmakers could torpedo the deal amid a rift over missile defence systems in Europe. Clinton held talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after flying in from a stopover in Ireland, and was due to hold a joint news conference with him on Thursday evening, before meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday. During her visit, Cl

[would] not ratify [the treaty] if it does not take into account the link between strategic offensive weapons and missile defence   -Boris Gryzlov

 

Reuters Smokestacks, a handy way of illustrating climate-change legislation, loom ominously in the twilight. President Obama has been quietly lining up the chess pieces in the coming push for climate-change legislation, enlisting former President Bill Clinton to shore up support among moderate Democrats for the upcoming struggle. This, as Obama's signature issue, health care, remains very much up in the air .