The Post Midterm Environment
11.06.10: Tuesday’s election put into stark relief that energy and the environment have become the new the third rail issues in American politics. Since then, every major environmental group in the country has called its members to arms to keep pressure on Washington for a transition to clean energy.
MNN’s Washington political blogger Andrew Schenkel puts the election in perspective environmentally and explains the brave new world of eco-Hill rhetoric.
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Tags: cap and tax, cap and trade, clean coal, climate change, climate deniers, coal, congress, democrats, domestic energy, energy independence, EPA, joe manchin, lisa jackson, natural gas, nrdc, oil, rand paul, republican, white house
Music: LCD Sound System, Arcade FirePhoto: Roosevelt-Island.net
Resource: Union of Concerned Scientists Post Midterm Agenda
Resource: NRDC's Switchboard on all things politically green




