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The U.S. House of Representatives approves landmark (bipartisan!) climate bill, 219 - 212. Waxman-Markey would complete America's transition to a clean energy economy, which started with the stimulus bill.

Posted on June 26, 2009

UPDATE: My Salon piece, One brief shining moment for clean energy is up. We do need to savor moments like these, since, as I note in that article, given modern conservative ideology, which is 100% anti-conservation, the country can only contemplate serious environmental legislation when we have the unique constellation of a Democratic president and [large] Democratic majorities in both houses, an occurrence far rarer than a total eclipse of the sun. Every journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step including stopping human-caused global warming at safe levels, as...

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