Exciting News on the Clear Act: Weekly Policy Update from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network
March 29-April 2 Overview: Despite the U.S. Congress being on recess this past week (and next), interest in and support for the cap and dividend/CLEAR Act approach to climate legislation continues to grow. Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter wrote positively about what he calls cap-and-rebate in his latest column. Mother Jones magazine carried a story on its website blog about The Other Climate Bill. Senator Susan Collins was interviewed by Clean Skies News; during the interview she suggested that the CLEAR Act could be paired with legislation, The American Clean Energy Leadership Act, passed by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last year. On Tuesday, March 30th, in what is probably the first such action in the country, the Santa Rosa, Ca. City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of the CLEAR Act. And at the end of the week, on Good Friday, the Philadelphia Daily News came out with an editorial supporting the CLEAR Act.
Maryland Environmental activists say they were on terrorist list
State police included Chesapeake Climate Action Network members HometownAnapolis.com http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/10_23-29/GOV By PAMELA WOOD and LIAM FARRELL Staff Writers Published October 23, 2008 SILVER SPRING – A handful of professional environmental advocates were placed on a Maryland State Police list of suspected terrorists, activists charged this morning. Three staffers for the Chesapeake Climate Action Network have [...]
