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Nineteen U.S. Senators who understand the need to clear the PR pollution that continues to block overdue climate policy spoke out on the Senate floor Monday in support of the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/download/web-of-denial-resolution" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Senate Web of Denial Resolution</a> calling out the destructive forces of fossil fuel industry-funded <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/search/?q=climate+denial" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">climate denial</a>.<p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(154, 154, 154); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div class="share-tab-img share-buttons share-trigger" style="font-size: small; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">img
<div class="share-media-panel">Championed by Senators Whitehouse, Markey, Schatz, Boxer, Merkley, Warren, Sanders and Franken, the resolution condemns what they are calling the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WebOfDenial&src=typd" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">#WebOfDenial</a>—"interconnected groups—funded by the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/search/?q=koch" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Koch</a> brothers, major fossil fuel companies like <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/search/?q=exxon" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">ExxonMobil</a> and <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/search/?q=peabody" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Peabody Coal</a>, identity-scrubbing groups like Donors Trust and Donors Capital and their allies—developed and executed a massive campaign to deceive the public about <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">climate change</a> to halt climate action and protect their bottom lines."Joined in the House of Representatives by Congressman Ted Lieu (D- CA), these champions for<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">climate</a> action and accountability in the Senate are calling out the use of think tanks and denier-for-hire front groups to create doubt about climate science.According to a press release issued Monday morning, the resolution condemns the "efforts of corporations and groups to mislead the public about the harmful effects of tobacco, lead and climate. The resolution also urges fossil fuel corporations and their allies to cooperate with investigations into their climate-related activities."As <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">DeSmog Blog</a>, <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/maps.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">ExxonSecrets</a>, <a href="http://www.climateinvestigations.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Climate Investigations Center</a> and others have documented repeatedly over the past decade, the oil and coal industries and their friends have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an immoral and potentially fraudulent campaign to deceive the public about the scientific consensus on manmade global warming and the need for urgent action to curtail fossil fuel pollution.Just last week, DeSmog Blog published the latest round of <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Exxon's funding of climate denial groups</a> still peddling doubt, bringing the total <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/08/exxonmobil-new-disclosures-show-oil-giant-still-funding-climate-science-denial-groups" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">known funding from Exxon to nearly $34 million</a> over two decades. Add to that the nearly <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/koch-industries/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">$90 million</a> pumped into the denial machine by the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Koch Family Foundations</a>, as well as the largesse emanating from the dark money ATM, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Donors Trust</a> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/donors-capital-fund" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Donors Capital Fund</a>.Think tanks and front groups involved in climate denial include the American Legislative Exchange Council (<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/search/?q=alec" target="self" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">ALEC</a>), U.S.Chamber of Commerce, Heritage Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Kochs' Americans for Prosperity, the Heartland Institute and many more.Champions in the U.S. Congress are now putting the denial machine on notice with this resolution and a series of speeches that took place last night from 4:45 -6:45 p.m. EDT, and will also take place today from 5 - 7:30 p.m. EDT on the Senate floor.Here are updates to this post from the speeches last night:7:35pm EDT: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spoke last tonight and highlighted many of the points made by his colleagues throughout the day during the #WebOfDenial speeches. Whitehouse praised the peer-reviewed research into climate denial by Robert Brulle, Justin Farrell, Riley Dunlap, Aaron McCright, Constantine Boussalis and Travis Coan.He thanked the many authors of books about climate denial, including Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway and noted that the film version of their book Merchants of Doubt is showing tonight on the Hill.And Sen. Whitehouse called out many groups and outlets that have worked to expose climate denial and industry misinformation, including Greenpeace's ExxonSecrets and PolluterWatch, set up by Kert Davies who has gone on to found the Climate Investigations Center, also named. He thanked the journalists at Inside Climate News and their must-read "The Road Not Taken" series. He thanked David Brock's group American Bridge and Climate Nexus for its work to expose the Wall Street Journal's peddling climate denial on its editorial page (and the Partnership for Responsible Growth for correcting the record in the Wall Street Journal). He thanked ProPublica, the Union of Concerned Scientists and more.He highlighted author Jeff Nesbit and his new book Poisoned Tea, Jane Mayer and her book Dark Money, Steve Coll and his book Private Empire on ExxonMobil as well as his role as Dean at the Columbia School of Journalism.Sen. Whitehouse also heaped much-appreciated praise on us at DeSmogBlog, mentioning our Time Magazine "Best Blogs" accolades as well as highlighting our news coverage and our Disinformation Database. (In turn, we thank the Senator for his leadership on this issue and his colleagues for speaking about the subject of climate denial which we've focused on for the past decade.)In closing, Sen. Whitehouse said:"The scholarship of all these academics, all these organizations and all these authors—the detectives who are exposing the web of denial—have shined a bright light into its dark corners and illuminated its concerted effort to dupe the American public and sabotage climate action in America, all to protect the fossil fuel industry that funds it. It's sickening, but it's big. The denial web is designed to be big and sophisticated enough that when you see its many parts, you're fooled into thinking it's not the same beast. But it is. Like the mythological Hydra, many heads, same beast. …
Welcome to the Web of Denial. And thank you to those who are working to expose it. It is a filthy thing in our democracy."7:10pm EDT: #WebOfDenial is Trending on Twitter.7pm EDT: Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) spoke about the overlap of tobacco industry attacks on science and the "fossil industrial complex" that has similarly attacked climate science to evade accountability. He also discussed the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-foundation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Heritage Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/art-pope" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Art Pope</a>, Cato Institute and the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/astroturf-king-jack-bonners-long-history-deceitful-grassroots-lobbying" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">forged letter scandal</a> orchestrated by Bonner and Associates for the Hawthorn Group and its coal industry client ACCCE. Merkley highlighted the work of Justin Farrell from Yale and the money flows from Donors Trust and the Koch Brothers. "A powerful, moneyed interest has spun a web of deceit. We know that these groups are backed by special interests. All we have to do is follow the money," Merkley said.He mentioned the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">more than $30 million from ExxonMobil</a> and the denial funding from <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/06/bankrupt-coal-miner-peabody-energy-paid-climate-denialist-crag-idso-write-greenhouse-gas-reports" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Peabody Energy revealed in its bankruptcy fillings</a>. Merkley saved special mention for the Koch Brothers: "But as much as the fossil fuel companies have contributed to these efforts over the years, the titles of the mastermind and the kingpins of climate science denial—those titles rest with Charles and David Koch."6:25pm EDT: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/mercatus-center" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Mercatus Center</a>, which he said "should be called the Koch Center" due to its massive Koch funding. He discussed the connections to the tobacco industry's attacks on tobacco science and the overlap with the Koch-funded Mercatus Center.5:55pm EDT: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) spoke about the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/virginia-institute-public-policy" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Virginia Institute for Public Policy</a> and the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/co2-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">CO2 Coalition</a> and the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/cornwall-alliance-stewardship-creation" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation</a> and mentioned DeSmogBlog's research in his #WebOfDenial speech. He also talked about the funding from <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/donors-capital-fund" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Donors Capital Fund</a> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/who-donors-trust" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Donors Trust</a> to denier organizations.5:40pm EDT: Sen. Elizabeth Warren spoke about the <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/science-and-public-policy-institute" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)</a>,<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/willie-soon" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Willie Soon</a> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/christopher-monckton" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Christopher Monckton</a>'s Hitler Youth outrage and claims to have a cure for AIDS and other "completely made up" Monckton-isms.5:25pm EDT: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse spoke about the #WebOfDenial and the $700 billion in global subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, annually. He highlighted the work of Drexel University professor Robert Brulle to expose the climate change counter movement and what the Senators are calling the climate #WebOfDenial.<div class="share-tab-img share-buttons share-trigger" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden;">[cspan img]<div class="share-media-panel">5:15pm EDT: Sen. Tom Udall spoke about the front groups Greening Earth Society and the Information Council on the Environment (ICE) and the web of denial.5:10pm EDT: Sen. Christopher Coons spoke about the historical denial efforts of <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/advancement-sound-science-coalition" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC)</a>5pm EDT: Sen. Cardin spoke about the attacks on climate science by the defunct group <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/annapolis-center-science-based-public-policy" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">Annapolis Center for Science-Based Public Policy</a> which received funding from ExxonMobil and the tobacco industry. He was introduced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who was thanked for leading this effort. Whitehouse delivered his 144th statement on the need for climate action and discussed the influence of the web of denial blocking action.Update 4:30pm EDT: Senator Reid kicked off the action on #WebOfDenial, railing against the Koch Brothers and Exxon for dishing out millions to fund climate denial organizations. Reid named Heartland Institute, Cato Institute and Americans For Prosperity, among others. You can watch the action on C-SPAN2."It's inspiring to see Senators join the movement to hold the likes of Exxon accountable for their decades of deception," Jamie Henn, <a href="http://350.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(78, 147, 66); outline: none;">350.org</a> communications director, said. "Big Oil robbed us of a generation's worth of climate action and to this day are still sowing doubt and misinformation — prioritizing profit at the expense of our climate and communities. The last 14 consecutive months have been the hottest on record, making it ever more pressing for our elected officials to bring this extensive web of climate denial to light."Last week, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse delivered his 143rd speech about climate change and focused on the issue of climate denial and the front groups involved in peddling doubt. Watch here:</div></div></div></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">5/16lcv had cat<a href="http://www.lcv.org/media/blog/latest-from-climate-champs-in.html">http://www.lcv.org/media/blog/latest-from-climate-champs-in.html</a>Champions in Congress have continued to make progress on important environmental policies that combat climate change. Here is a recap of their most recent efforts.      Senators <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LCVoters/photos/10153751834489735/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">Barbara Boxer</a> (CA), Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LCVoters/posts/10153766534604735" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">Edward Markey</a> (MA),<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LCVoters/photos/10153776717579735/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">Kirsten Gillibrand</a> (NY), and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LCVoters/photos/10153751558419735/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">Cory Booker</a> (NJ) stood up to attacks on climate action at recent hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. They called out Big Polluters and their allies in Congress who receive money from corporate polluters and block efforts to protect communities from pollution and tackle climate change. 
More than 200 current and former members of Congress <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/274893-over-200-current-former-lawmakers-back-obama-in-climate-case" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">filed an amicus brief</a> to demonstrate their support of the EPA’s landmark Clean Power Plan. They <a href="http://www.lcv.org/media/press-releases/LCV-Statement-on-Amicus-Brief-from-Members-of-Congress-in-Support-of-Clean-Power-Plan.html" target="blank" title="LCV Statement on Amicus Brief from Members of Congress in Support of Clean Power Plan" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">joined</a>a growing coalition of public health experts, faith leaders, cities, states, former EPA Administrators and others to argue that this regulation remains consistent with the Clean Air Act.  Senator Harry Reid (NV) wrote <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/nevada-s-future-depends-upon-renewable-energy" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">an op-ed</a> calling for continued investment in tax incentives for renewable energy and their importance to the state of Nevada. 
Senator Michael Bennet (CO), a strong <a href="https://www.bennet.senate.gov/?p=release&id=3658" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">supporter </a>of wind energy incentives, welcomed the <a href="http://www.awea.org/index.aspx" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)</a> 2015 market report showing that the “U.S. wind energy now supports 88,000 well-paying American jobs, a 20 percent increase over 2014.” Senator Ben Cardin (MD) and Representative John Delaney (MD-6) led 145 members of Congress on a <a href="http://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/cardin-delaney-lead-145-colleagues-in-letter-to-president-obama-on-signing-of-paris-climate-agreement" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">letter</a> to President Obama in strong support of global action on climate change and the U.S. signing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement. LCV Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Tiernan Sittenfeld joinedSenators Barbara Boxer (CA), Martin Heinrich (NM), Ed Markey (MA), Brian Schatz (HI), Next Gen and Clean Water Action to <a href="https://medium.com/@LCVoters/weneednine-abb1379e9de8#.yy0xpgw3u" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">rally</a> support for the Senate Republican leadership to do its job and hold a hearing and a vote on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. The courts play a significant role in our right to breath clean air, drink healthy water, and provide future generations with a healthy planet. Representatives Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Doris Matsui (CA-6), and Paul Tonko(NY-20), co-chairs of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), wrote an <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/opinon-what-we-are-celebrating-earth-day" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">op-ed</a> on Earth Day to celebrate the climate victories made by the US government, including the Paris Climate Agreement, Clean Power Plan, methane regulations, rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and extension of clean energy tax credits. Representative Mike Quigley’s (IL-5) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LCVoters/posts/10153780968969735" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">speech </a>on the house floor highlighted the benefits of investing in clean energy to the environment and the economy. House Democrats, including Representatives Raul Grijalva (AZ-3), Dan Kildee(MI-5), Ted Lieu (CA-33), Kathy Castor (FL-14), Stacey Plaskett (VI), Jared Huffman (CA-2), and Xavier Becerra (CA-34), released a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biFt1kLySs0" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">video </a>on Earth Day calling for Republicans to take action on climate change, clean water, and clean air. 
Representative Jared Polis (CO-2) proposed a <a href="http://polis.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398096" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">bill </a>to invest in small scale solar energy development, which would lead to not only reduced carbon pollution but also long term job growth.  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) has continued to give his weekly “Time to Wake Up” speeches on the Senate floor to urge Senators to take action on climate change. One of his most recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upbkfkVdrQc" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">speeches </a>focused on the impact climate change will have on our ocean habitats and coral reefs. Another <a href="http://bit.ly/1SwgQEI" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">speech </a>called out big polluters for saying one thing on climate change and then doing another. Charles Koch, for example, is now admitting climate change is real and made worse by humans, but is continues to spend large amounts of money to block all action. Senator Brian Schatz (HI) led on an <a href="http://www.schatz.senate.gov/press-releases/senate-passes-bipartisan-energy-bill-includes-schatzs-energy-research-funding-amendment-" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">amendment</a> which received bipartisan support for increasing funding for clean energy research by nearly $150 million over five years. Senator Al Franken’s (MN) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LCVoters/posts/10153760720024735" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">remarks </a>in a Senate Energy Committee hearing reminded his colleagues that climate change is a serious crisis backed by science, and that if we don’t cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, future generations will not be able to enjoy a healthy planet. Senator Barbara Boxer (CA) wrote an <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-barbara-boxer/americans-want-to-fight-c_b_9797628.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">op-ed</a> discussing her new bill, the Climate Change Adapt America Bond Act, to help fight climate change through issuing bonds. The bill is based on the World War II war bonds program and would give the Treasury Department the authority to issue up to $200 million each year in Climate Change Bonds which Americans can buy. She wrote another <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article69150007.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">op-ed</a> with Representative Doris Matsui (CA-6) supporting larger investments throughout the country in clean energy to strengthen the economy and combat climate change.We greatly appreciate the hard work <div>=</div><div> Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and joined by Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Edward Markey (D-MA) </div><div>
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</div><div>http://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/senators-issue-report-on-us-chamber-of-commerce-lobbying</div><div> =</div><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/02/03/senators-introduce-merchants-doubt-amendment-energy-bill-call-fossil-fuel-industry-end-denial-and-deception">http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/02/03/senators-introduce-merchants-doubt-amendment-energy-bill-call-fossil-fuel-industry-end-denial-and-deception</a>
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Democratic U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Ed Markey (MA) and Brian Schatz (HI)

introduced an amendment into the energy bill yesterday intended to

express Congress’s disapproval of the use of industry-funded think tanks

and misinformation tactics aimed at sowing doubt about climate

change science.

The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/2016-02-02%20Merchants%20of%20Doubt%20Energy%20Bill%20Amendment%20%28%233200%29.pdf">amendment</a>

evokes the history of notorious anti-science efforts by the tobacco and

lead industries to avoid accountability for the damage caused by their

products, focusing similar ire on the fossil fuel industry’s

decades-long climate cover-up.

Although it doesn’t name specific companies, the amendment is surely

inspired by recent revelations about ExxonMobil’s early and advanced

knowledge of the role of fossil fuels in driving climate change — which

was followed by the company’s subsequent, unconscionable climate science

denial efforts.

Just as tobacco and lead companies sowed doubt about the dangers of

their products through the use of front groups and third-party experts,

so did ExxonMobil — through its funding of a sophisticated network of

denialists — work to deceive the public about climate science and the

need for political action to end the fossil fuel era.

The most recent and damning #ExxonKnew revelations were published late in 2015 in investigative articles by both <a target="blank" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/content/Exxon-The-Road-Not-Taken">InsideClimate News</a> and the <a target="blank" href="http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-research/">Los Angeles Times</a> in collaboration with the Columbia School of Journalism.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joined the amendment as a co-sponsor once it was introduced.

“It is the sense of the Senate that

according to peer-reviewed scientific research and investigative

reporting, fossil fuel companies have long known about the harmful

climate effects of their products,” the amendment reads.

“[A]nd contrary to the scientific findings

of the fossil fuel companies and of others about the danger fossil fuels

pose to the climate, fossil fuel companies used a sophisticated and

deceitful campaign that included funding think tanks to deny, counter,

and obstruct peer-reviewed research; and used that misinformation

campaign to mislead the public and cast doubt in order to protect their

financial interest.”

In closing, the amendment lends support to the ongoing state Attorneys General investigations in both <a target="blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/11/05/ny-attorney-general-investigation-subpoena-exxonmobil-peabody-coal-climate-denial">New York</a> and <a target="blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/20/3741034/california-investigates-exxon-knew/">California</a>

into what ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel interests knew, and when,

about climate change risks and why the industry chose instead to attack

the science to prolong its profits.

The amendment states the Senate “disapproves of activities by certain

corporations and organizations funded by those corporations to

deliberately undermine peer-reviewed scientific research about the

dangers of their products and cast doubt on science in order to protect

their financial interests…and urges fossil fuel companies to cooperate

with active or future investigations into their climate-change related

activities and what the companies knew and when they knew it.”

The Senate will continue deliberations on the full <a target="blank" href="http://www.eenews.net/bills/114/Senate/181115174955.pdf" style="line-height: 17.6px;">energy bill</a> this week. Unfortunately, it is rife with fossil fuel industry giveaways, including <a target="blank" href="https://www.bennet.senate.gov/?p=release&id=3568">expedited permitting for liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals</a>, subsidies for coal technology and more.

So it’s nice to see an amendment designed to shame, and hopefully

stop, industry misinformation campaigns that have delayed much-needed

action to usher the end of the fossil fuel era.

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<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">
Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), <a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=Bernie+Sanders" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Bernie Sanders</a> (D-Vt.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced landmark <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">climate</a> legislation today to end new federal <a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">fossil fuel</a>leasing on public lands and oceans, and cancel existing offshore federal oil and gas leases in the<a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=arctic" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Arctic</a>.<div class="rve" data-content-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500" data-twitter-extracted-i1447527668076235415="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To avoid a temperature increase of 5-10° in the next century 80% of the world’s fossil fuels must stay in the ground <a href="https://t.co/iYPqdXXknF" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">pic.twitter.com/iYPqdXXknF</a>— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/661954862893113344" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">November 4, 2015</a></blockquote></div>By ending new federal fossil fuel leases, the Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground Act of 2015 would remove up to 450 billion tons from the global pool of potential greenhouse gas pollution—an amount vastly greater than any reasonable U.S. share of the global carbon budget to avoid 2 degrees Celsius degrees of warming.“If we’re going to solve the global climate crisis, we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground, and this brave legislation puts us on the right path,” said Randi Spivak, public lands director at the<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(67, 146, 65); transition: color 0.2s linear; background: transparent;">Center for Biological Diversity</a>. “Developing our last publicly owned fossil fuels would cripple our ability to avert worst-case climate impacts.”..http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/04/climate-bill-end-fossil-fuel-leases/<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><a href="http://www.globalpossibilities.org/why-climate-hawks-are-on-the-left-like-it-or-not/">http://www.globalpossibilities.org/why-climate-hawks-are-on-the-left-like-it-or-not/</a>
<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">
<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">
<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">There is a new coalition in Congress; a bunch of nut job Democrats calling themselves the Safe Climate Coalition. The group held a press conference last week to call for addressing global warming. Rep. Donna Edwards, D-MD, said if Congress doesn't address climate change it will destroy her state possibly sinking the coast. Rep. Jared Huffman D-CA said that the ancient forests and vineyards in his district would disappear along with ruining the infrastructure of his communities and destroying the health of our oceans and coastal fisheries. Rep. Earl Blumenauer D-OR said there would not be any skiing in Vermont and the maple trees in that state would disappear. - See more at: http://mikerowse.com/?cat=4&paged=18#sthash.41LTEtDB.dpuf<a href="https://www.facebook.com/safeclimate">https://www.facebook.com/safeclimate</a><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;">=<div class="article-body" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><div id="intro" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">It's so tempting to call the overwhelming majority of the 17 Republican members of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee dunces, doofuses, know-nothings, nincompoops, ignoramuses or cuckoo birds when it comes to climate change. If you watched even a brief part of Wednesday's <a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/moniz-mccarthy-fight-off-climate-change-deniers-at-house-hearing/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">hearing</a> on the subject with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testifying, you can see that this GOP crew most certainly qualifies for any and all those descriptors.Indeed, 14 of them are outright climate change deniers. Total scientific illiterates. Or at least pretending to be by carrying water for the fossil fuel companies that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over two decades injecting disinformation into public discourse about climate change and smearing scientists whose research showed that it is happening and that it ishuman-caused. That was why several members of the audience <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/environmental-activists-wear-tinfoil-hats-to-republican-hear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">donned tinfoil hats</a> to mock those committee members when they asked questions. The 14:<a href="http://whitfield.house.gov/press-release/whitfield-blasts-use-false-science-copenhagen" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Chairman: Ed Whitfield</a> (Kentucky); <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/12/rep_scalise_voices_fresh_doubt.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Vice Chairman: Steve Scalise</a> (Louisiana); <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/12/ralph-hall-speaks-out-climate-change" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Ralph Hall</a>(Texas); <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg66704/html/CHRG-112hhrg66704.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Michael C. Burgess, M.D.</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/3680018" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Pete Olson</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/10/rep-joe-barton-biblical-great-flood-shows-climate-change-isnt-man-made/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Joe Barton</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7h08RDYA5E" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">John Shimkus</a> (Illinois); <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/xl-pipeline-pros-and-cons-11446071" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Lee Terry</a> (Nebraska); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/12/16/390886/republican-house-profits-over-public-health/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Bill Cassidy</a> (Louisiana); <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2010/10/20/1st-district-update-more-west-virginia-politicians-ignore-the-mounting-science-about-global-warming/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">David McKinley</a> (West Virginia); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/09/21/206758/house-races-climate-change-global-warming/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Cory Gardner</a> (Colorado); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/03/15/174947/koch-committee-climate-denial/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Mike Pompeo</a> (Kansas); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1MUMKQlLtM" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Morgan Griffith</a> (Virginia); and<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/08/142997/upton-climate-denier/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Fred Upton</a> (Michigan).Three other Republican members on the subcommittee, Joseph R. Pitts of Pennsylvania, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Bob Latta of Ohio have not directly denied that human-made climate change is happening. But on related issues they vote just like the outright deniers.These aren't the only deniers on the subcommittee. There's also John Barrow of Georgia, one of the few remaining Blue Dog Democrats in Congress.It was a sickening parade of know-nothingism and shilling at the hearing. Moniz and McCarthy must have repeatedly wanted to slam their heads on the table where they sat. And have a good stiff drink or three when the hearing was over. Ryan Koronowski at ThinkProgress<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/19/2641081/moniz-mccarthy-climate-hearing/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">provided a rundown</a> on the "Five Craziest Arguments" expressed by the subcommittee's deniers. One of the nincompoopiest came from Rep. McKinley. He actually asserted there has been no temperature increase in the past 40 years. A claim any fifth-grader could <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land_ocean/13/1900-2013?trend=true&trend_base=10&firsttrendyear=1880&lasttrendyear=2012" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">shoot down</a>. He also said the benefits of climate change will outweigh any harm.Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/19/climate_politics_congressman_parrots_climate_change_denial_errors.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">wrote</a> a succinct smackdown that began with "Let me be clear:What he said here is complete nonsense."Please read below the fold for more analysis.</div><div id="body" class="article-body" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; overflow: hidden;">Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California also took a poke at McKinley during, noting, "Mr. Chairman, I think this illustrates why we need a committee where we bring in the scientists. I just thought that the statements that the gentlemen from West Virginia read to us were incredibly inaccurate and contrary to everything else everybody in the scientific community has to say, including Mr. Moniz [...] We need scientists to come in here and talk about science."Waxman is one of six Democrats of the 14 on the subcommittee who represent a wholly other point of view than the denier majority. The six are part of the 28-member <a href="http://waxman.house.gov/issues/safe-climate-caucus" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Safe Climate Caucus</a>. They've committed to speak every day on the House floor "to end the conspiracy of silence in the House of Representatives about the dangers of climate change. What unites us is our understanding that climate change is the moral issue of our time. We believe we have an obligation to use our voices to raise awareness of the dangers we are creating for our children and grandchildren if we do not act now." Besides Waxman, they six are:<a href="http://waxman.house.gov/issues/safe-climate-caucus">http://waxman.house.gov/issues/safe-climate-caucus</a>Ranking Member Bobby L. Rush of Illinois; Jerry McNerney, Lois Capps and Doris O. Matsui of California; and Paul Tonko of New York. Hurrah for them.But other than Barrow, what's the excuse of the other Democrats for not being a member of the Safe Climate Caucus? Indeed, what is the excuse of any Democratic representative for not being part of it?Yes, yes, nothing substantial addressing climate change can get passed in the House as long as the Republicans are in charge. But only 14 percent of House Democrats have shown that they really want to take action. Why aren't they on board, publicly, taking a stand every week, hammering on the deniers? What are they waiting for?Denying that human-caused climate change is happening is bad. It's myopic. It's reckless. Those in Congress who really believe their denial prove they are too stupid to be there. Those who don't believe it but spout the nonsense anyway because it makes their campaign contributors happy are too corrupt to be there.But those who accept the scientific evidence and still don't speak up, who still don't join their colleagues who are spotlighting the crisis because they've got other priorities are no better than the deniers.Because delay is denial.</div></div><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(112, 109, 90); font-weight: normal; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ORIGINALLY POSTED TO <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Meteor%20Blades/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">METEOR BLADES</a> ON THU SEP 19, 2013 AT 12:51 PM PDT.</h4><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(112, 109, 90); font-weight: normal; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ALSO REPUBLISHED BY <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Climate%20Change%20SOS/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">CLIMATE CHANGE SOS</a>, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/DK%20GreenRoots/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">DK GREENROOTS</a>, <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Science%20Matters/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">SCIENCE MATTERS</a>,<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Climate%20Hawks/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">CLIMATE HAWKS</a>, AND <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/blog/main/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none;">DAILY KOS</a>.</h4><div>
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</div><div><div id="section_body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="list-item featured-list-item detail-page" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; clear: both; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">About the Safe Climate CaucusThe Safe Climate Caucus is comprised of 33 members of the House who have made a commitment to talk every single day on the House floor about the urgent need to address climate change.  The Safe Climate Caucus banded together to end the conspiracy of silence in the House of Representatives about the dangers of climate change.  What unites us is our understanding that climate change is the moral issue of our time.  We believe we have an obligation to use our voices to raise awareness of the dangers we are creating for our children and grandchildren if we do not act now.Members of the Safe Climate Caucus:<table style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 608px; border: medium none;" border="0" width="600"><tbody style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;" width="221"><a href="http://waxman.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Henry A. Waxman</a>, Chair</td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;" width="369"><a href="http://hankjohnson.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Hank Johnson</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://blumenauer.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Earl Blumenauer</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://lee.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Barbara Lee</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://capps.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Lois Capps</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://lujan.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Ben Ray Lujan</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://cleaver.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Emanuel Cleaver</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://schiff.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Adam Schiff</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://cohen.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Steve Cohen</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://matsui.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Doris Matsui</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://donnaedwards.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Donna Edwards</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://mcnerney.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Jerry McNerney</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://ellison.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Keith Ellison</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://moran.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Jim Moran</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://gabbard.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://rush.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Bobby L. Rush</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://garamendi.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. John Garamendi</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://tonko.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Paul Tonko</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://grijalva.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Raul Grijalva</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://vanhollen.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Rep. Chris Van Hollen</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://holt.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Rush Holt</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://www.welch.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Peter Welch</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://huffman.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Jared Huffman</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://www.defazio.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Peter DeFazio</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://maloney.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Carolyn Maloney</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://lowenthal.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Alan Lowenthal</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://cartwright.house.gov/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Matt Cartwright</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://chu.house.gov/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Judy Chu</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://pocan.house.gov/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Mark Pocan</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://doggett.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Lloyd Doggett</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://teddeutch.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Ted Deutch</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://scottpeters.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Scott Peters</a></td></tr><tr style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"><a href="http://patrickmurphy.house.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. Patrick Murphy</a></td><td style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; border: medium none; border-collapse: separate;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div><div id="related-news" class="related-list" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(157, 5, 6); font-style: italic;">More on Safe Climate Caucus</h2><div class="view view-press-releases view-id-press_releases view-display-id-block_3 view-dom-id-6c9192f65ad7f33707b960b3bc3cac9b" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="view-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="list-item" style="margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 30px 0px 0px; clear: both;"><div class="date-tag" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold;">Dec 12, 2013 Video</div><h4 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://waxman.house.gov/video/safe-climate/rep-deutch-calls-national-leadership-climate-change-florida" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(105, 138, 178);">Rep. 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