"Gotta feed the grease monkey on your back" {Earthship Wednesday}

by eKos

Welcome to the eKos Earthship, your one-stop-shop for green diaries and series.

Tonight's editor: LaughingPlanet

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While the most useless branch of gov't in history Senate is on hiatus, the gusher in the gulf continues to be more persistent, destructive, and  annoying than the gopher in the golf. Perhaps a similar "solution" will be enacted someday.

Also, more green tea leaves will be read about the current status of s3516, the climate bill being formed in the Senate.

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URGENT: Climate Debate begins in earnest today! (ACTION diary)

by LaughingPlanet

This news is also breaking...

Today, the President held a private meeting with key people in the current energy/climate debate in the Senate.

Muted Outcome from White House Energy Meeting

The statement reflects no wavering by Obama on his insistence that "the best way for us to transition to a clean energy economy is with a bill that makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America’s businesses by putting a price on pollution."

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Here’s the White House statement:

The meeting the President hosted with a bipartisan group of Senators was a constructive exchange about the need to pass energy and climate legislation this year that lasted more than an hour-and-a-half. The President made clear his view that a full transition to clean energy will require more than just the government action we’ve taken so far. It will require a national effort from all of us to change the way we produce and use energy.

continued at Daily Kos....