{"id":990,"date":"2010-12-06T08:28:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=990"},"modified":"2010-12-06T08:28:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:28:38","slug":"four-ways-to-kill-a-climate-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Four Ways to Kill a Climate Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net.previewdns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Coal-Dirty-Expensive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-991\" title=\"Coal Dirty &amp; Expensive\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net.previewdns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Coal-Dirty-Expensive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Coal-Dirty-Expensive.jpg 504w, http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Coal-Dirty-Expensive-300x88.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"AREA_hap_image\" src=\"http:\/\/valleywatch.net\/dbimages\/Coal%20Dirty%20&amp;%20Expensive.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>July  26, 2010-By Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family fund in  the New York Times. Had Lyndon Johnson likewise relied on polling, he  would have told the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to talk only about  the expanded industry and jobs that Southerners would realize after  passage of a federal civil rights act. I could imagine Dr. King\u2019s  response.<\/strong><br \/>\nIf President Obama and Congress had announced that no  financial reform legislation would pass unless Goldman Sachs agreed to  the bill, we would conclude our leaders had been standing in the  Washington sun too long. Yet when it came to addressing climate change,  that is precisely the course the president and Congress took. Lacking  support from those most responsible for the problem, they have given up  on passing a major climate bill this year.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that passing  legislation to rebuild our fossil fuel-based economy was always going  to be a momentous challenge. Senators and representatives feel in their  bones (and campaign accounts) the interests of utilities and the coal  and oil industries. Even well-intentioned members of Congress struggle  to balance the competing needs of energy-intensive industries, coal  workers and American families.<\/p>\n<p>But with climate change a stated  priority for President Obama and Congress, how did they fall so short?  By weaving four coordinated threads into a shroud of inaction. This  began long before President Obama took office, but rather than rip up  the old pattern \u2014 as he advocated during the campaign \u2014 the president  quickly took his place at the loom.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Thread No. 1: Climate is out; green jobs are in.<br \/>\n\u2022 Thread No. 2: Devising a bill for historic polluters, not the American people.<br \/>\n\u2022 Thread No. 3: A Rube Goldberg-policy construction.<br \/>\n\u2022 Thread No. 4: The public sits it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/26\/opinion\/26wasserman.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Story as Published<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 26, 2010-By Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family fund in the New York Times. Had Lyndon Johnson likewise relied on polling, he would have told the Rev. 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