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Out With Big Coal, In With Big Green
This move has been in the works for a while, but it just became official: Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a dedicated advocate for strong climate change legislation, just took over the key House subcommittee on the energy and environment from Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA), a very nice man also joined at the hip with the coal industry.
This clears the way for Markey to join the new House energy and commerce panel chairman, Henry Waxman, in making a full-court press for carbon emissions caps this year. Sweet.
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Woohoo!! I'd like to see more of this whole "if you don't do your job because you are connected to special interests we'll find someone who will actually do it" trend.
January 8, 2009 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Drill baby drill
January 8, 2009 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is excellent news for Earth!
January 8, 2009 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
The real question is who's in charge of the relevant committee in the Senate and how much videotape of that person playing golf with Satan does Mitch McConnell have to use as blackmail?
They've been predicting the death of coal for at least 80 years, since the first oil geyser blew at Spindletop.
Big Coal always comes back. Big Coal always wins. It's gonna take more than a committee chair switch to kill it now.
January 8, 2009 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boucher needs to go into something more in the techie communications field. He's one of the only ones in the House to understand many of the issues there.
Now, repeat after me: "There's no such thing as clean coal!"
January 9, 2009 8:11 AM | Reply | Permalink