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No plans for Labor Day? The coal industry has you covered.
At no cost to the public, the heavyweights of the industry are putting on the Friends of America Rally, a one-day country music extravaganza in Southern West Virginia featuring the talents of Hank Williams Jr. and John Rich, among others.
Just good, wholesome, blue-jeans-and-Copenhagen fun, right? [...]

After a full day of heated debate, the House of Representatives has just passed the landmark Waxman-Markey energy and climate bill, by a vote of 219-212.
The vote was largely along party lines, with 44 Democrats crossing the aisle to vote against it and 8 Republicans supporting passage.
The bill, officially known as the American Clean Energy [...]

Since House Democrats this afternoon released their finalized version of legislation aiming to mitigate America’s role in global climate change, the response from environmentalists has been, well, not very encouraging. Here’s the statement just issued by Greenpeace:
Despite the best efforts of [Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif)], this bill has been seriously undermined [...]

Surprise! Conservatives don’t like the House Democrats’ energy and climate draft bill. From The Corner:
648 Pages of Ruin
There’s a lot of ruin in a nation, which is why it is taking Henry Waxman (D., Us Magazine) and Edward Markey 648 pages to finish America off. That’s the length of their draft of a Global Warming [...]

The two leading House Democrats on environmental policy are expected to unveil a major energy and climate bill today with more ambitious goals than recent competing proposals, according to The New York Times.
The Times has caught wind of some of the details of the bill, drafted by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) [...]

It’s very hard to have a debate with someone when your underlying assumptions are radically different. Inevitably, things will get pretty heated.
That’s what happened at a House Energy and Environment Subcommittee hearing this morning on “The Role of Offsets in Climate Legislation.” Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) attempted to engage six expert witnesses in a nuanced [...]

The Hill reports today that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.) won’t scrap the special panel she created last year to tackle climate change.