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Wilderness Society president blogs about clean energy jobs bill

As the House Energy and Commerce Committee prepares to mark up the Waxman-Markey clean energy jobs bill (the American Clean Energy Security Act) later this week, there’s a lot of debate in Washington about this historic legislation. The draft bill, introduced at the end of March, creates major new clean and renewable energy programs, while addressing the threat of global warming by imposing limits on greenhouse gases and making polluting industries pay for the global warming emissions they dump into the atmosphere. Read more

The Staggering Economic Toll of Global Warming

The “American Clean Energy and Security Act” introduced by Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., is generating a flurry of comment. For groups like The Wilderness Society, the introduction of the Waxman-Markey bill is welcome news — a signal that Congress is finally willing to tackle the potentially catastrophic challenge of global warming. For others, the bill represents a threat to the fossil-fuel-fired status quo. Read more