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Are 'Carbon Cowboys' Running Amok With Cap and Trade Speculation?

Stacy Feldman, SolveClimate. February 8, 2010.

Global carbon trading has become a speculative market, where people trade only for the purpose of profiting.

GOP Senators on Environment Committee Hit All-Time Low, Third-Graders Have More Maturity

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. November 4, 2009.

Why the Party of No is now being called the Party of No Show.

Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Still Stinks Despite Cologne

Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies. October 5, 2009.

The bottom line is that it won't make a significant impact on our increasingly unstable climate. And that's a tragedy.

Oil Industry Warns: "If Climate Bill Passes, US Refining Will Fall." Duh.

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.

Energy Bill Scrapes by House -- Will it Survive the Senate?

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.

Pass the Waxman-Markey Bill, Or Else

Beau Friedlander, Air America. June 26, 2009.

While the bill is weak medicine for a very sick planet, it’s a whole lot better than taking the poor orb behind the Milky Way and shooting it.