Earth Equity News

Recent Elections Represent a New Low for Climate Policy. By Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 11/22/10 issue. “To be sure, even before the midterm elections, the prospects for meaningful action on climate change in Washington were dim... The [House] Waxman-Markey bill, which would have imposed a nationwide cap on emissions…. was convoluted in all the usual, special-interest-driven ways, and not nearly ambitious enough to produce the emissions cuts that are needed… The Senate dithered, President Obama was silent…Still, the recent election represents a new low… House Republicans and their Tea Party allies reject even the idea of concern. Not content merely to ignore the science, they have decided to go after the scientists.”