Wednesday, February 25, 2009

ENVIRONMENT: Following Obama’s Speech, Parsing Key Players for Global Warming Legislation

http://www.publicintegrity.org/blog/entry/1185/

In last night's speech, President Obama called on attendees to send him "legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution." As a new Center report explains, that means the mushrooming number of climate change lobbyists will be talking to a lot of old friends and former bosses.

Many of those lobbyists used to work on Capitol Hill, and some were themselves members of Congress. They represent scores of different climate interests, including some mentioned by Obama — like the electric grid and "technologies like wind power and solar power, advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more efficient cars and trucks."