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</div><div>last serious try at bill?=<a href="https://grist.org/article/2010-05-12-introducing-the-american-power-act-on-the-strategy-and-substance/">https://grist.org/article/2010-05-12-introducing-the-american-power-act-on-the-strategy-and-substance/</a>Introducing the American Power Act: On strategy and substance<div class="single-article-header" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="article-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal;"><div class="article-metabyline_and_date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px;">By <a href="https://grist.org/author/senator-john-kerry/" title="Posts by John Kerry" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">John Kerry</a> on May 12, 2010</div></div></div><div class="article-body" style="font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Busy day here — started early with some curtain-raising morning television to kick off the discussion a bit about the American Power Act that Joe Lieberman [I-Conn.] and a unique coalition are talking about later today.But sometimes those morning-show interviews are a bit of a reminder of how much detailed discussion we lose when we’re crammed into a two- or three- or five-minute back-and-forth, which is especially tough on an issue like a comprehensive approach to climate and energy.Which brings me to why I wanted to come by Grist — because of the in-depth discussions you’ve already had here again and again on this issue.But — and here’s the but — I don’t want to swing by and just sort of preach to the choir. We’re true believers — we already get the imperative of the threat our addiction to carbon-emitting energy poses. You know the science, you know the reality, and so do I.So, what I do want to talk about is this: We need to take a deep dive together on the Senate strategy, and on the real details of the bill that make it important for the things you and I care about. So, I hope I bring something new to that discussion that we can use as a jumping-off point.First, the Senate dynamic — the politics of this place. I want to be candid about this, and I do so with a record on this issue that I think earned me the spurs to say this. We’ve been at this a long time. Al Gore and I held the Senate’s first climate-change hearings in the Commerce Committee way back in 1988. Since then, precious little progress has been made and ground has been lost internationally, all while the science has grown more compelling. I can barely even count any more the number of international summits I’ve attended, or press conferences we’ve held after losing climate-change votes in the Senate where our message was, “Next year, we can get this done — don’t give up on the United States or the Senate.” Two Congresses ago, we had 38 votes for a bill. Last Congress, we had 54 votes for cloture out of 60 needed — and we said then — me, Joe, Barbara Boxer [D-Calif.] — that this Congress we could get to 60 and pass a bill.So what have we done? A lot of meeting and listening — between me, Joe Lieberman, and Lindsey Graham [R-S.C.], hundreds of meetings one-on-one with our colleagues to find out what they needed to support a bill. And I absolutely believe we’re closer than ever to getting across the finish line — but make no mistake, it remains difficult, even with President Obama in the White House, and even with the House of Representatives having passed their bill by the slimmest of margins last summer. But we’re going full-steam ahead because, in my judgment, this may be the last and certainly the best chance for the Senate to act, especially with the fact that I think the next Senate — given a 2012 presidential campaign added to the dynamic and a lot of new senators — is going to be less likely than this one to find a path to the 60 votes needed for passage. So we’ve got to get it done this year.Hear me out on this one — you know where I’ve been and continue to be on all the major environmental fights since even before I became a senator. As a lieutenant governor, I focused on acid rain and we laid the groundwork for the successful fight on the Clean Air Act in 1990, with the support of the first President Bush and bipartisan support from Congress. In stark contrast to that effort to find a bipartisan way forward, I led the successful filibuster — against the urging of many in our Democratic caucus — to defeat the second President Bush’s plan to drill in and destroy the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I point to these twin examples because I think they’re evidence that I know when to dig in and fight, and I also know when and how to find the path to getting something done across the aisle.And here’s what I can tell you: A comprehensive climate bill written purely for you and me — true believers — can’t pass the Senate no matter how hard or passionately I fight on it. No, it’s got to be an effort that makes my colleagues — and that has to include Republicans so we can get to 60 — comfortable about the jobs we’re going to create and the protection for consumers and the national security benefits — and it has to address those pieces on their terms. The good news: I think we got that balance right.So, the straight scoop on the details, the real down-in-the-weeds details:First and foremost, this bill creates a major — mandatory — pollution-reduction program that sends the needed price signal on carbon, with carbon allowances auctioned in a heavily regulated market that doesn’t allow any speculators access. Only corporations that need the pollution allowances can buy them, period. No bank can swoop in and start speculating. These corporations that buy the allowances can trade them among themselves, but again, no outside entities are allowed, with the minor exception of a few heavily regulated “liquidity providers” who are there to make sure there are always buyers and sellers at any one time. The actions of these providers, however, are tightly controlled, and their profits are extremely limited by the law. There’s no Wild West of speculation possible here, just a strict market only open to those who need it.It will also be a stable market. The American Power Act creates a hard price collar for the sale of carbon allowances. This will cut down on the volatility of the market, especially in the early days, and give investors a clear signal on future prices. We don’t let this affect the environmental integrity or jeopardize the pollution reductions we’re going for, though. Instead, we hold back a strategic reserve of allowances that we release if the market gets too high to bring down the cost without adding new carbon to our pollution targets.And, look, creating this pollution-reduction market is incredibly important to do. We absolutely have to send a price signal to move to a new energy economy. Every business leader I talk to confirms this — nothing else will get the job done. Without it, we won’t get the certainty we need in our economy that drives the innovation and investment in the clean energy economy. And without that, we won’t be able to get a real international agreement, with teeth, to confront the crisis of climate change.Now, we can’t leave American workers exposed, waiting forever for others to join us in the effort to price pollution, because that would force them to compete against countries that have no greenhouse-gas emissions limits. That would just shift pollution abroad rather than reduce it, and in the process, it would cost us jobs. So we’ve included a robust, WTO-consistent border-adjustment mechanism in the bill. It’s pretty simple: Imports from countries that aren’t doing what we’re doing will need to pay a fee at the border or we will give our producers the resources they would need to keep from having their production shifted overseas to avoid the cost of polluting. This will prevent the “carbon leakage” of companies moving production offshore, and it allows American manufacturers to compete on a level playing field with those overseas. And I guarantee that on a level playing field, nobody beats the American worker.We also want Americans to share in the benefits of this legislation, so the American Power Act — inspired in part by the <a href="https://grist.org/article/2009-12-14-defending-the-cantwell-collins-clear-act" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">great work of Sens. Maria Cantwell [D-Wash.] and Susan Collins [R-Maine]</a> — sends the bulk of the proceeds from the sale of the pollution allowances back to the American people directly in the form of rebates. None of it stays with or grows government. Those rebates rise over time until it all goes straight back to Americans.That’s the heart of the bill. I realize there’s been a lot of discussion about some other aspects of it, so here are some of the other parts of the bill:<ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 1.1rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; list-style-position: outside;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Clean Air Act: This part of the bill has generated a lot of commentary and reporting recently, and some of it has just missed the mark. Here’s the deal: This bill does not take the EPA out of the mix on regulating carbon. In fact, it strengthens the Clean Air Act by expanding the authority of the EPA and making that authority permanent. First, the entire pollution-reduction program is under the authority of the EPA.  The bill specifically requires the EPA to regulate large sources of carbon pollution, but it does not allow it to issue what in many cases would be duplicative regulation of the same sources.  Essentially, what the bill says is that EPA should use the program specifically designed for making the deep reductions in carbon pollution called for in the bill.  The bill preserves key Clean Air Act tools for sources not in the program, and it calls on EPA to continue setting tough emission standards to reduce global-warming pollution from cars and trucks.  It also continues EPA’s ability to set performance standards for old, dirty power plants to make sure they clean up. </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Offshore drilling: We’re in the middle of a catastrophe in the Gulf, and it’s important that we fully understand the implications as we move forward. This bill starts that process by tightening current federal law and implementing two major reforms. First, any state can veto drilling less than 75 miles off its border. Second, any new rig will have to be studied for the environmental impact of any potential spill, and any state that is found to be at risk can veto that drilling.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">State laws: The long-standing efforts of states like California to implement innovative programs around vehicle emissions and other programs will not be affected. The bill does make clear that carbon is a national problem, and that the national policy on carbon needs to be the law of the land. But outside of that specific area, states are still free to pursue the policies that they wish. I’ve talked with [Massachusetts] Gov. Deval Patrick about this — Massachusetts has been one of the states ahead of the curve and our bill rewards them — but like with acid rain, these governors know we ultimately need a national solution.</li></ul>So — one more time – would I design every piece of this legislation exactly as it is if I only had to get my vote? Of course not. But that’s not the way democracy works. The Senate — and our caucus — is a very diverse coalition, from coastal states to Midwestern states to states with large coal reserves. Sixty votes is a tough coalition to put together.But our planet can’t wait for the perfect bill. We need to get a really good bill now, one that reduces carbon pollution and puts us on a path to a clean energy future. And if we do this, I know we can get a tough international agreement to deal with this global problem. Those are the two things I remind myself of every day when it comes to this bill. You’ve got to keep your eye on the prize. Bottom line: We’re at a crossroads. On one path is clean energy, a more stable climate, and a more prosperous economy with America back in control of our own energy, generating good clean-energy jobs. On the other is the status quo, which is unsustainable. Keep that in mind when you look at this bill and engage in the debate.</div>=<a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2010/10/12/8569/anatomy-of-a-senate-climate-bill-death/">https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2010/10/12/8569/anatomy-of-a-senate-climate-bill-death/</a>no lnx grafxAnatomy of a Senate Climate Bill DeathBy Daniel J. Weiss Posted on October 12, 2010, 9:00 amThe Conoco Oil Refinery in Rodeo, CA, is seen. The deep recession, unified and uncompromising opposition in the Senate, and big spending by oil, coal, and other energy interests all had big roles in preventing climate legislation from moving through the Senate this year.]This report contains multiple corrections.
President Barack Obama took office with four major domestic agenda items: a plan to prevent the recession from growing worse and launch recovery; health care reform; financial reform to avoid future meltdowns; and clean energy and global warming legislation to create jobs, reduce oil use, and cut pollution. The president succeeded with the first three items. But clean energy legislation died in the Senate after passing the House.
The October 6, 2010 New Yorker has a “behind the curtain” dissection of the rise and fall of climate legislation in the Senate. It provides an interesting insider view of the always messy legislative process.
Reporter Ryan Lizza details some senators’ admirable willingness to stretch beyond their comfort zones on some energy issues to cement an agreement that would establish declining limits on carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants while allowing more offshore oil drilling and subsidies for nuclear power. He also notes the critical miscommunications and different approaches by senators and the Obama administration that reduced prospects for success.
Lizza gives short shrift, however, to the real reasons Senate passage of climate legislation was impossible in 2010: the deep recession, unified and uncompromising opposition in the Senate, and big spending by oil, coal, and other energy interests. Let’s take a close look at these factors.
The Great Recession took its tollMany economists described this latest recession as the worst since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Economists Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi note in the July 2010 report “How the Great Recession was Brought to an End:”
Eighteen months ago, the global financial system was on the brink of collapse and the U.S. was suffering its worst economic downturn since the 1930s. Real GDP was falling at about a 6% annual rate, and monthly job losses averaged close to 750,000. Today, the financial system is operating much more normally, real GDP is advancing at a nearly 3% pace, and job growth has resumed, albeit at an insufficient pace. [Emphasis added]
The economic decline sped up just as President Barack Obama took office. Unemployment jumped from 6.2 percent on Labor Day 2008 to 8.2 percent by President Obama’s State of the Union on February 24, 2009. Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman noted in March 2009, “At first, the current recession didn’t hit industrial production all that hard. But the pace accelerated dramatically last fall. At this point we’re sort of experiencing half a Great Depression. That’s pretty bad.”
After unemployment peaked at 10.1 percent in October 2009 the jobs picture has not gotten significantly better. The Bureau of Labor Statistics just announced September 2010 unemployment rate held steady at 9.6 percent. AP reported that “The jobless rate has now topped 9.5 percent for 14 straight months, the longest stretch since the 1930s.”
These and other effects of the recession significantly added to many Americans’ long-term economic uncertainty or fear. And this economic environment made politicians much more susceptible to Big Oil, dirty coal, and other special interests’ “tired dance, where folks inside this beltway get paid a lot of money to say things that aren’t true about public health initiatives,” as noted by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. This includes skewed studies funded by the oil industry that predicted that global warming pollution reductions would devastate the economy.
The terrible economy and growing unemployment made it much more difficult to pass clean energy and global warming legislation. In fact, an analysis of the unemployment rate when fundamental environmental protection laws were enacted since Earth Day 1970 found that the annual unemployment rate was 7 percent or lower most of the year of enactment. [1] (see chart)
unemployment levels when environmental laws passedThe first Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (hazardous waste disposal) were all enacted when unemployment was 6 percent or lower. Unemployment is 50 percent higher now. Only six major environmental laws were enacted with annual unemployment over 7 percent, and none with unemployment greater than 7.7 percent. Unemployment averaged 9.3 percent in 2009 and 9.7 through September 2010.
In other words, the worst unemployment in nearly 30 years made the up-hill climb to pass a global warming bill even steeper. And certainly the special interests’ opposed to action on global warming played on Americans’ concern about unemployment to frighten senators into opposing global warming action.
For instance, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association urged strong opposition to the APA:
The draconian carbon reduction targets and timetables in this bill would trigger destructive change in America’s economic climate. This would add billions of dollars in energy costs for American families and businesses, destroy the jobs of millions of American workers, and make our nation more dependent on foreign energy sources…If senators want to increase the loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States and postpone the resurgence of the American economy, then they should vote for this bill.
The American Petroleum Institute bought a series of television, radio, and print ads threatening job killing energy taxes. Its homepage headline reads, “More jobs not more taxes.”
The heavily funded U.S. Chamber of Commerce has also poured money into defeating climate and clean energy action for the last several years. More recently, the Big Coal backed Faces of Coal front group staged rallies in protest of EPA’s proposed global warming pollution regulations with signs reading “Coal Keeps the Lights on,” and “Coal Miners ‘Dig’ Their Jobs.”
Whatever it is, we’re against it!As if high unemployment weren’t enough, Senate advocates of clean energy and global warming pollution reduction legislation had to contend with Senate rules that allow unlimited debate.
This required bill sponsors to persuade a 60-vote “supermajority” to end debate and pass their bill. With several Democrats unalterably opposed to action to reduce global warming the sponsors needed support from at least four or five Republican senators.
Lizza describes that this was difficult to achieve because opposition to global warming pollution reductions had grown in GOP ranks. What’s more, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) convinced his senators that their route to the majority was a solid wall of opposition to whatever President Obama wanted to do for the nation.
Lizza reported that:
The Republican Party had grown increasingly hostile to the science of global warming and to cap-and-trade, associating the latter with a tax on energy and more government regulation. Sponsoring the bill wasn’t going to help McCain defeat an opponent to his right.
By not automatically resisting everything connected to Obama, these senators risked angering Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader and architect of the strategy to oppose every part of Obama’s agenda, and the Tea Party movement, which seemed to be gaining power every day.
Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (before he dropped out), the champions of climate legislation, could never break this wall of opposition or neutrality even among Republican senators who had previously sponsored or voted for global warming legislation.
This includes Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who sponsored multiple global warming pollution reduction bills and advocated significant reductions during his 2008 presidential campaign. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) also co-sponsored global warming bills in previous Congresses. Nearly four years ago Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) said: “It seems to me just prudent that we recognize we have climate increase and temperature change. We have CO2 loading and we need to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.”Yet none of these senators publicly supported action or engaged in serious negotiations with key climate legislation crafters Sens. Kerry, Lieberman, or Graham in 2010.
This Republican lockstep opposition to the energy bill and other Democratic priorities is reflected in Senate floor voting patterns. Congressional Quarterly developed a “Party Unity” score based on the proportion of votes that “pitted a majority of one party against a majority of the other.” Such votes reflect that each party’s position was different, and a majority of the senators voted with their party.
The proportion of these party-unity votes have increased significantly over the last 20 years. (see chart) In the 101st Congress, serving from 1989-90, less than half the Senate votes were party-unity votes. Before 2009, the highest proportion of Senate party-unity votes occurred in the 104th Congress, from 1995-96. This was the so-called “Contract with America” Congress with the first Republican majority in both houses since 1953.
party unity voting trends by congressional term cart]Republican leaders in 2009, however, adopted a strategy of opposing President Obama on every major legislative effort to deny him victories that would enhance his popularity. Seventy-two percent of Senate votes, therefore, were party unity votes. This grew to 79 percent in 2010, which means nearly four of five votes were along party lines.
The 111th Congress also saw an increase in the proportion of Republican senators voting with their party majority. Eighty-five percent of Republicans voted with their party in 2009, while that increased to 90 percent in 2010. By comparison, there were only 3 of 10 previous Congresses when Republicans were more unified.
Congressional Quarterly describes the increased Senate polarization in 2010.
Almost four out of five roll call votes in the Senate have pitted a majority of Democrats against a majority of Republicans—the highest percentage of so-called party-unity votes seen since Congressional Quarterly began tabulating them in 1953.
Most telling, however, is the support accorded President Obama on the 51 Senate roll calls this year… where he took a position. On average, Democrats supported him 95 percent of the time, up from 92 percent in 2009. And Republicans backed away from their 50 percent average presidential support score last year to vote with Obama just 42 percent of the time so far this election year.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), a conservative Democrat and no ally of global warming legislation, noted that the Senate Republican caucus had become more unified in opposition to Democrats. She said: “This Republican Party’s not the one it used to be. There were moderates that would reach out with those of us that were moderate on the other side, but that’s not the direction they’re going in.”
The best bill money could stopThe House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act on June 26, 2009. This bill was supported by some major companies and trade associations, including the Edison Electric Institute and the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Fear of a consensus energy bill that had some industry support galvanized most big oil and coal companies to invest heavily in their efforts to oppose a Senate bill. Companies in these and other industries thus spent records amounts of money on lobbying, campaign donations, and other pressure tactics to defeat clean energy legislation in the Senate. And this spending does not include millions of dollars spent on message advertising, “astro turf” rallies (fake grass roots), and other pressure tactics that do not require public spending reports.
Opensecrets.org found that electric utilities and oil and gas companies spent more than $500 million in lobbying from January 2009 to June 2010, primarily to weaken or defeat energy legislation. A Center for American Progress Action Fund analysis found that oil companies were six of the top seven spenders on lobbying and campaign contributions during this period, with ExxonMobil number one.
Big Oil’s campaign contributions are heavily tilted toward Republicans, who received 70 percent of the contributions that went to the two parties. Opensecrets.org reports that as
… debate raged in Congress about offshore drilling, energy independence, ‘cap-and-trade’ legislation and a shift away from fossil-fuel energy sources … congressional candidates and federal political committees nationwide have raked in more than $17 million from the oil and gas industry so far during the 2010 election cycle—a number on pace to easily exceed that of the most recent midterm election four years ago.
The recipients of the funds have remained relatively consistent over the years, with Republicans accumulating a majority of the industry’s campaign contributions.
The coal industry, too, gave nearly 70 percent of its campaign cash to Republicans.
The bigger pictureThe New Yorker pulled back the curtain on the admirable but frustratingly unsuccessful efforts of Sens. Kerry, Lieberman, Graham, and others to achieve Senate passage of comprehensive clean energy and global warming legislation. But Lizza pinning the blame on the White House or senators misses the larger factors behind this huge disappointment.
Al Gore spelled it out succinctly during an interview with Lizza after the legislation was dead for the year. He agreed that the economy, a unified wall of opposition in the Senate, and special interest spending were at the heart of this outcome.
I asked Al Gore why he thought climate legislation had failed. He cited several reasons, including Republican partisanship, which had prevented moderates from becoming part of the coalition in favor of the bill. The Great Recession made the effort even more difficult, he added. “The forces wedded to the old patterns still have enough influence that they were able to use the fear of the economic downturn as a way of slowing the progress toward this big transition that we have to make.
There were gale force economic, political, and special interest winds blowing against global warming legislation in 2010 that were beyond the influence of its champions. The question should not be “Why did they fail?” but “How did they get so far?”
Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress. Special thanks to Susan Lyon, Ben Kaldunski, and Laurel Hunt.
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</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">omg</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">nonaggression pact </a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">july 13, 2010</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">oil-industry group hires new leader for media team</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">by anne c. mulkern of greenwire</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">as it works to reshape the oil industry's image, american petroleum institute's media shop has nabbed a former spokesman for the u.s. chamber of commerce.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">eric wohlschlegel started work yesterday as api's director of media relations. running the team that talks to reporters, wohlschlegel said he is focused on communicating the oil and natural gas industry's importance. it is the latest move as trade group ceo jack gerard reorganizes api's work force.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">"we're basically under new leadership at api," wohlschlegel said. "this is sort of getting all hands on deck towards that goal.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">"it's obvious that he's assembling a new team and sort of focusing his assets with a very clear goal of advocacy and communications on behalf of the industry," wohlschlegel said of gerard's plan.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">wohlschlegel said his strategy is to "communicate to the general public how critical the oil and gas industry is to our economy and to jobs in america."</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">wohlschlegel's recruitment marks api's latest hire from the u.s. chamber, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in washington, d.c., and one with strong ties to the oil and natural gas industry. api in april recruited linda rozett, who previously worked as communications director for the friends of fred thompson organization and as senior vice president of communications for the chamber (greenwire, april 16). rozett is in charge of all communications.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">earlier this year, api nabbed deryck spooner, who ran the nature conservancy's push to spur legislative action on climate change (greenwire, feb. 2). spooner now heads api's grass-roots activism arm. he previously ran campaigns for labor group afl-cio and abortion rights organization naral pro-choice america.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">api in december cut 15 percent of its work force, but gerard said at the time that he planned to bring on new hires to fill gaps. gerard said that the organization had "not been as effective as we could be in educating public officials or the public about the critical role of oil and gas in our economy. ... you will see us evolve into a more nimble, more aggressive" organization. "we're going to be aggressive in our outreach to educate the public" (e&enews pm, dec. 11, 2009).</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">before working at the chamber, wohlschlegel worked at a small public relations firm, was the deputy press secretary at the house energy and commerce committee under then-chairman tom bliley (r-va.), and worked for the national petroleum refiners association.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">api clearly is seeking out "big guns," as it works to reshape its message, said tyson slocum, director of the energy project at public citizen.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">"it seems that api is going on a new recruiting spree; they are clearly assembling an impressive team to go on the offensive," slocum said.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">key victories on hill</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">the work force restructuring is helping api achieve big wins in congress, slocum said. the oil and natural gas industry last month "handily beat back," slocum said, a measure that would have repealed $35 billion worth of tax breaks for oil and gas producers over the next decade. the amendment (pdf) would have cut oil and gas tax breaks related to amortization, depletion of oil wells and domestic production income(e&e daily, june 16).</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">while the petroleum industry is under pressure because of the gulf of mexico oil spill, slocum said, "they're still able to muster an awfully lot of support" within congress.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">api and the oil industry over the past year changed its approach toward the push for climate legislation in congress, slocum said. the industry largely opposed the house bill that passed in june 2009. that bill, h.r. 2454, (pdf) capped carbon emissions and set up a program for buying and selling pollution permits. while it gave away a large number of free allowances to utilities and industries that rely on energy, it allocated almost none to oil refiners. the oil industry condemned that policy, calling it a redistribution of wealth.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">the oil industry then struck a deal with lead senate democrats as sens. john kerry (d-mass.) and joe lieberman (i-conn.) crafted their climate bill, said slocum, who said that he was part of an april conference call where kerry talked about that arrangement. the industry agreed not to condemn the legislation and kerry's "american power act (pdf)" set up a special emissions trading program for the oil industry.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">"that was part of the nonaggression pact that was essentially signed," slocum said.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
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</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">for more news on energy and the environment, visit www.greenwire.com.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">greenwire is published by environment & energy publishing. read more »</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">nonaggression pact </a><div><div class="timestamp" style="margin-top: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">July 13, 2010</a></div><div class="kicker" style="font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 15px;"><h1 style="margin-top: 3px;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">OIL-INDUSTRY GROUP HIRES NEW LEADER FOR MEDIA TEAM</nyt_headline></a></h1><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hjvHJ0LubgcJ:https://grist.org/article/kerry-lieberman-climate-bill-the-details/full/%2B%26cd%3D16%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjW6YuBpcLkAhUERK0KHRo9C2IQIDAPegQIBxAF" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><nyt_byline version="1.0" type=" " /></a><div class="byline">BY ANNE C. MULKERN OF GREENWIRE</div><nyt_text><div id="articleBody">AS IT WORKS TO RESHAPE THE OIL INDUSTRY'S IMAGE, AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE'S MEDIA SHOP HAS NABBED A FORMER SPOKESMAN FOR THE U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.ERIC WOHLSCHLEGEL STARTED WORK YESTERDAY AS API'S DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS. RUNNING THE TEAM THAT TALKS TO REPORTERS, WOHLSCHLEGEL SAID HE IS FOCUSED ON COMMUNICATING THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY'S IMPORTANCE. IT IS THE LATEST MOVE AS TRADE GROUP CEO JACK GERARD REORGANIZES API'S WORK FORCE."WE'RE BASICALLY UNDER NEW LEADERSHIP AT API," WOHLSCHLEGEL SAID. "THIS IS SORT OF GETTING ALL HANDS ON DECK TOWARDS THAT GOAL."IT'S OBVIOUS THAT HE'S ASSEMBLING A NEW TEAM AND SORT OF FOCUSING HIS ASSETS WITH A VERY CLEAR GOAL OF ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATIONS ON BEHALF OF THE INDUSTRY," WOHLSCHLEGEL SAID OF GERARD'S PLAN.WOHLSCHLEGEL SAID HIS STRATEGY IS TO "COMMUNICATE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC HOW CRITICAL THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY IS TO OUR ECONOMY AND TO JOBS IN AMERICA."WOHLSCHLEGEL'S RECRUITMENT MARKS API'S LATEST HIRE FROM THE U.S. CHAMBER, ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL LOBBYING GROUPS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND ONE WITH STRONG TIES TO THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY. API IN APRIL RECRUITED LINDA ROZETT, WHO PREVIOUSLY WORKED AS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR THE FRIENDS OF FRED THOMPSON ORGANIZATION AND AS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE CHAMBER (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2010/04/16/4">GREENWIRE</a>, APRIL 16). ROZETT IS IN CHARGE OF ALL COMMUNICATIONS.EARLIER THIS YEAR, API NABBED DERYCK SPOONER, WHO RAN THE NATURE CONSERVANCY'S PUSH TO SPUR LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2010/02/26/3">GREENWIRE</a>, FEB. 2). SPOONER NOW HEADS API'S GRASS-ROOTS ACTIVISM ARM. HE PREVIOUSLY RAN CAMPAIGNS FOR LABOR GROUP AFL-CIO AND ABORTION RIGHTS ORGANIZATION NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA.API IN DECEMBER CUT 15 PERCENT OF ITS WORK FORCE, BUT GERARD SAID AT THE TIME THAT HE PLANNED TO BRING ON NEW HIRES TO FILL GAPS. GERARD SAID THAT THE ORGANIZATION HAD "NOT BEEN AS EFFECTIVE AS WE COULD BE IN EDUCATING PUBLIC OFFICIALS OR THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE CRITICAL ROLE OF OIL AND GAS IN OUR ECONOMY. ... YOU WILL SEE US EVOLVE INTO A MORE NIMBLE, MORE AGGRESSIVE" ORGANIZATION. "WE'RE GOING TO BE AGGRESSIVE IN OUR OUTREACH TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC" (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/eenewspm/2009/12/11/2">E&ENEWS PM</a>, DEC. 11, 2009).BEFORE WORKING AT THE CHAMBER, WOHLSCHLEGEL WORKED AT A SMALL PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM, WAS THE DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY AT THE HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE UNDER THEN-CHAIRMAN TOM BLILEY (R-VA.), AND WORKED FOR THE NATIONAL PETROLEUM REFINERS ASSOCIATION.API CLEARLY IS SEEKING OUT "BIG GUNS," AS IT WORKS TO RESHAPE ITS MESSAGE, SAID TYSON SLOCUM, DIRECTOR OF THE ENERGY PROJECT AT PUBLIC CITIZEN."IT SEEMS THAT API IS GOING ON A NEW RECRUITING SPREE; THEY ARE CLEARLY ASSEMBLING AN IMPRESSIVE TEAM TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE," SLOCUM SAID.KEY VICTORIES ON HILLTHE WORK FORCE RESTRUCTURING IS HELPING API ACHIEVE BIG WINS IN CONGRESS, SLOCUM SAID. THE OIL AND NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY LAST MONTH "HANDILY BEAT BACK," SLOCUM SAID, A MEASURE THAT WOULD HAVE REPEALED $35 BILLION WORTH OF TAX BREAKS FOR OIL AND GAS PRODUCERS OVER THE NEXT DECADE. THE <a href="http://sanders.senate.gov/graphics/OTT10284.pdf">AMENDMENT</a> (PDF) WOULD HAVE CUT OIL AND GAS TAX BREAKS RELATED TO AMORTIZATION, DEPLETION OF OIL WELLS AND DOMESTIC PRODUCTION INCOME(<a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/EEDaily/2010/06/16/4">E&E DAILY</a>, JUNE 16).WHILE THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY IS UNDER PRESSURE BECAUSE OF THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL, SLOCUM SAID, "THEY'RE STILL ABLE TO MUSTER AN AWFULLY LOT OF SUPPORT" WITHIN CONGRESS.API AND THE OIL INDUSTRY OVER THE PAST YEAR CHANGED ITS APPROACH TOWARD THE PUSH FOR CLIMATE LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS, SLOCUM SAID. THE INDUSTRY LARGELY OPPOSED THE HOUSE BILL THAT PASSED IN JUNE 2009. THAT BILL, <a href="http://www.eenews.net/features/bills/111/House/060709182643.pdf">H.R. 2454,</a> (PDF) CAPPED CARBON EMISSIONS AND SET UP A PROGRAM FOR BUYING AND SELLING POLLUTION PERMITS. WHILE IT GAVE AWAY A LARGE NUMBER OF FREE ALLOWANCES TO UTILITIES AND INDUSTRIES THAT RELY ON ENERGY, IT ALLOCATED ALMOST NONE TOOIL REFINERS. THE OIL INDUSTRY CONDEMNED THAT POLICY, CALLING IT A REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH.THE OIL INDUSTRY THEN STRUCK A DEAL WITH LEAD SENATE DEMOCRATS AS SENS. JOHN KERRY (D-MASS.) AND JOE LIEBERMAN (I-CONN.) CRAFTED THEIR CLIMATE BILL, SAID SLOCUM, WHO SAID THAT HE WAS PART OF AN APRIL CONFERENCE CALL WHERE KERRY TALKED ABOUT THAT ARRANGEMENT. THE INDUSTRY AGREED NOT TO CONDEMN THE LEGISLATION AND KERRY'S "<a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/25/16580/features/documents/2010/05/19/document_daily_01.pdf">AMERICAN POWER ACT</a> (PDF)" SET UP A SPECIAL EMISSIONS TRADING PROGRAM FOR THE OIL INDUSTRY."THAT WAS PART OF THE NONAGGRESSION PACT THAT WAS ESSENTIALLY SIGNED," SLOCUM SAID.COPYRIGHT 2010 E&E PUBLISHING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<nyt_author_id><div id="authorId" style="clear: both;">FOR MORE NEWS ON ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, VISIT <a href="http://www.greenwire.com/" style="">WWW.GREENWIRE.COM</a>.
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NYer<div style="overflow: hidden; border: medium none;">On April 20, 2010, Senators John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman, along with three aides, visited Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, at the White House. The legislators had spent seven months writing a comprehensive bill that promised to transform the nation’s approach to energy and climate change, and they were planning a press conference in six days to unveil their work. Kerry, of Massachusetts, Graham, of South Carolina, and Lieberman, of Connecticut, had become known on Capitol Hill as the Three Amigos, for the Steve Martin comedy in which three unemployed actors stumble their way into defending a Mexican village from an armed gang. All had powerful personal motivations to make the initiative work. Kerry, who has been a senator for twenty-five years and has a long record of launching major investigations, had never written a landmark law. Lieberman, an Independent who had endorsed John McCain for President, had deeply irritated his liberal colleagues by helping the Republicans weaken Obama’s health-care bill. Graham, a Republican, had a reputation as a Senate maverick—but not one who actually got things done. This bill offered the chance for all three men to transform their reputations. The senators had cobbled together an unusual coalition of environmentalists and industries to support a bill that would shift the economy away from carbon consumption and toward environmentally sound sources of energy. They had the support both of the major green groups and of the biggest polluters. No previous climate-change legislation had come so far. Now they needed the full support of the White House.The senators sat around the conference table in the corner of Emanuel’s office. In addition to the chief of staff, they were joined by David Axelrod, the President’s political adviser, and Carol Browner, the assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change. Lieberman introduced his aide, Danielle Rosengarten, to Emanuel.“Rosengarten working for Lieberman,” Emanuel said. “Shocker!”Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman knew that Obama’s advisers disagreed about climate-change legislation. Browner was passionate about the issue, but she didn’t have much influence. Axelrod, though influential, was not particularly committed. Emanuel prized victory above all, and he made it clear that, if there weren’t sixty votes to pass the bill in the Senate, the White House would not expend much effort on the matter. The Democrats had fifty-nine members in their caucus, but several would oppose the bill.“You’ve had all these conversations, you’ve been talking with industry,” Emanuel said. “How many Republicans did you bring on?” Kerry, the de-facto leader of the triumvirate, assured him that there were five Republicans prepared to vote for the bill. One of them, Lindsey Graham, was sitting at the table. Kerry listed four more: Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Scott Brown, and George LeMieux. With five Republicans, getting sixty votes would be relatively easy. The Obama White House and the Three Amigos would be known for having passed a bill that would fundamentally change the American economy and slow the emission of gases that are causing the inexorable, and potentially catastrophic, warming of the planet. The Senate coalition that introduced the bill started to form in early 2009, when Lieberman instructed Rosengarten to work with the office of John McCain, Lieberman’s longtime partner on the issue. As the newest member of Lieberman’s staff, she was in charge of his climate portfolio, and Lieberman made a simple and oft-repeated demand: “Get me in the room.”Lieberman had worked on climate change since the nineteen-eighties, and in recent years he had introduced three global-warming bills. He also had long been interested in a pollution-control mechanism called cap-and-trade. The government would set an over-all limit on emissions and auction off permission slips that individual polluters could then buy and sell. By late January, 2009, the details of the Lieberman-McCain bill had been almost entirely worked out, and Lieberman began showing it to other Senate offices in anticipation of a February press conference. The goal was to be the centrist alternative to a separate effort, initiated by Barbara Boxer, a liberal from California and the chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee. But the negotiations stalled as the bill moved forward. In Arizona, a right-wing radio host and former congressman, J. D. Hayworth, announced that he was considering challenging McCain in the primary. McCain had never faced a serious primary opponent for his Senate seat, and now he was going to have to defend his position on global warming to hard-core conservative voters. The Republican Party had grown increasingly hostile to the science of global warming and to cap-and-trade, associating the latter with a tax on energy and more government regulation. Sponsoring the bill wasn’t going to help McCain defeat an opponent to his right.By the end of February, McCain was starting to back away from his commitment to Lieberman. At first, he insisted that he and Lieberman announce a set of climate-change “principles” instead of a bill. Then, three days before a scheduled press conference to announce those principles, the two senators had a heated conversation on the Senate floor. Lieberman turned and walked away. “That’s it,” he told an aide. “He can’t do it this year.” In Barack Obama’s primary-campaign victory speech, in St. Paul, Minnesota, he said that his election would be a historical turning point on two pressing issues: health care and climate change. “We will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick,” he said. “When the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” During the campaign, he often argued that climate change was an essential part of a national energy strategy. “Energy we have to deal with today,” Obama said in a debate with McCain. “Health care is priority No. 2.”

Read more <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza#ixzz17MeFiDRm">h</a><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza#ixzz17MeFiDRm">ttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza#ixzz17MeFiDRm</a><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza#ixzz17MeFiDRm"> </a></div></div><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza#ixzz17MeFiDRm"> </a> --- 9/30/09 grist <a href="http://kerry.senate.gov/cleanenergyjobsandamericanpower/intro.cfm">The new Boxer-Kerry Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act gives progressives a second chance to influence climate legislation</a>, if we learn the right lessons from both the legislative process for the House climate bill and the ongoing health care debate.Many progressives have varying degrees of frustration with both processes, but the fact is the progressive grassroots has had more impact in the health care debate than the climate debate.  == 29 Jul 2010: AnalysisIn Wreckage of Climate Bill,Some Clues for Moving ForwardAmple blame exists for the demise of climate legislation in the U.S.Senate, from President Obama’s lack of political courage, to theenvironmental community’s overly ambitious strategy, to Republicanintransigence. A way forward exists, however, to build on the rubble ofthe Senate’s failure to cap carbon emissions.by eric pooley http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2299 very good 4. The Green Group. At a meeting in February 2007, the Green Group, anunofficial association of the leaders of the big U.S. environmentalnon-profits, told Harry Reid they supported a single legislative goal:An economy-wide cap. Their strategy was to assemble the broadestpossible coalition to push the broadest possible bill. Given themagnitude of the crisis and the need to reduce emissions quickly, thismade sense. Politically, though, it proved disastrous, because it led tobills of such cost, scope, and complexity that they scared the pants offtimid legislators. The Green Group held out for an economy-wide bill even after it becameclear, in late 2009, that it was unachievable in the Senate. Onlyrecently didenvironmental leaders try to negotiate a compromise cap on electricpower plants, which account for 40 percent of U.S. emissions. Passing autility cap would have been a great first step, but the talks gotstarted too late. The Green Group wanted too much and ended up withnothing. 5. The Power Barons. When the eleventh-hour search for a compromisebegan, the utilities got too greedy. If they had to go it alone, theyargued, they deserved virtually all of the carbon allowances in theprogram for free. This left too few for other crucial purposes, such ascushioning manufacturers from higher electricity prices. Worse, inexchange for supporting a carbon cap, some utilities demanded relieffrom Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations governingconventional pollutants such as mercury. Like the greens, they asked fortoo much and got nothing. (The greens, however, were overreaching onbehalf of the planet, not their own coffers.) Some utility bosses wererelieved to see the bill die. Those feelings may prove short-lived asthe battle to reduce emissions moves to the EPA and the courts. Some advocates, such as Lee Wasserman of the Rockefeller Family Fund,regard the decision to negotiate with the power barons as the height offolly. Washington, they argue, should simply dictate the terms ofsurrender to the polluters. Such a stance ignores an important fact: Itisn’t possible to remake the U.S. energy system without negotiating withthe power barons. Punishing generators means punishing households thatpay electricity bills. That doesn’t mean, however, that the politiciansshould give the barons everything they want. But there was only oneplayer with the clout to cut a fair deal with them, and he was missingin action.</div>