Moreover, Senator Murkowski (R-AK) is now pushing an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill that would be a leap backwards. Her amendment would effectively prevent the EPA from addressing global warming pollution from our most egregious polluters or accurately measuring the potential climate impacts of biofuels. Murkowski’s amendment ignores worldwide scientific consensus that carbon dioxide - no matter what its source - is a pollutant that threatens public health and welfare, block Clean Air Act protections, and delay the move to clean, American-made energy. Worst of all, the Murkowski amendment would be a thorn in our nation’s side as we attempt to forge a global approach to climate change because adoption would send a loud signal around the world that the United States is not serious about reducing its global warming pollution. 

If I may compare the upcoming UN Talks in Copenhagen to the Elementary school cafeteria (which is surprisingly fitting), while other leading nation’s will be hanging out and unpacking really cool lunch boxes full of tasty green foods to show off to their friends, the US could end up sitting in the corner alone with a stale cheese sandwich… that may or may not have cheese.

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Jim Rogers, Duke Energy’s CEO, told FAST COMPANY he’s a fan of putting solar panels on his customers’ homes and businesses — he just thinks Duke should own them. “I believe at the end of the day, we’ll be able to do it cheaper and better than everybody else.” But Urlaub says, “We know that’s not true,” pointing out that Duke recently submitted a public bid for a utility-owned 20-megawatt rooftop-solar program and came in higher than several independent, nonutility solar companies.”