Reactions to Today's Hearings

Today, a number of panelists with expertise on different aspects of the climate change issue--energy economics, national security, impacts of climate change, and electricity--testified on the Kerry-Boxer bill before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Reuters describes the first group in this way: "Leaders at companies that develop low-carbon energy told a Senate panel that climate legislation would create millions of new jobs, but lawmakers from fossil-fuel dependent states said the bill would hit employment in the traditional energy economy." (The full article can be accessed here.) Greenwire goes into more detail about the gloom and doom forecast by the petroleum industry, here.

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