Pika are one of many species threatened by climate change. Photo by William C. Gladish.

In the early summer heat of 2009, the House of Representatives passed a historic, comprehensive, climate and energy bill called the American Climate and Energy Security Act. Now, more than year later, as a record heat wave is cooking Washington DC, the Senate will (hopefully) pick up where the House left off last summer and begin debate on its own comprehensive climate and energy bill. Read more

Staff and interns at Senate Climate Bill launch with Senator Merkley (D-OR).

There’s a joke here in town that D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people; meaning that the celebrities we see out on the town are not beautiful movie stars, but rather average looking politicians and appointees. Well, it felt like a red carpet event this morning in the shadow of the Capitol dome as a team of Wilderness Society staff and interns gathered with over a hundred other supporters for the release of the Senate’s clean energy and climate bill. Read more