David Morris, AlterNet. October 2, 2009. Happily, a new climate bill drafted by Sen. Maria Cantwell may change both the nature of the debate and its outcome.
Rachel Smolker, AlterNet. September 30, 2009. A new movement is demanding more from the president, Congress and even most major environmental groups in order to pass truly meaningful climate legislation.
Brian Merchant, TreeHugger. August 25, 2009. A report today in Bloomberg that reveals -- gasp -- that the climate bill will do exactly what it's supposed to do.
Kate Sheppard, Grist.org. August 4, 2009. A firm hired by a coal lobbying group is believed to be responsible for forged letters pretending to be from the NAACP and a local Latino group.
Teryn Norris, AlterNet. July 8, 2009. If we don't act now to strengthen the bill, it could create a "super lobby" that will diminish the possibility of achieving future reforms.
Faiz Shakir, The Progress Report. June 29, 2009. The focus is now on trying to make sure the bill clears the Senate and is not weakened by special interests.
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. June 24, 2009. Let's take a look at why Waxman-Markey has the support of big polluters such as Shell Oil and Duke Energy, and not many environmental groups.
Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, Ryan Powers, Nate Carlile, June 24, 2009. As Congress inches closer to ushering in a clean energy economy that protects our planet, the far right is ramping up efforts to block it.
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. May 22, 2009. Now the next challenge: how to stop this bill from being weakened as it winds itself through the House and the Senate.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. May 19, 2009. The Waxman-Markey bill, our best effort to fend off climate catastrophe, is in the hands of Congress, and prospects aren't good.
