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  Anti-coal campaign gets some good news, but battle is far from won 7

  Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago

  We'll still be protesting on Monday in D.C., but it looks like the protest may be half victory party too!

  Late Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter off to the Capitol Architect -- the guy in charge of buildings and grounds, as well as the century-old, mainly-coal-fired power plant that Congress owns and which is located just a few blocks from the fancy dome and the National Mall. The two leaders told him to stop shoveling coal into the power plant's boiler and finish the switch to natural gas.

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  This piece, not surprisingly given its author, is exactly right on. The cap is what we need; all else is commentary.

  
  As to Ken Johnson's excellent question, the answer to that is something less than an atmospheric concentration of 350 ppm. Which would explain 350.org. Check it out

  On Climate policy question #1 is simple: "Are we in?" posted 7 months ago 4 Responses

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  350

  Interesting post as always.

  One slight correction. Jim Hansen's announcement that 350 is the new number has not been met with an entirely deafening silence. Those of us who ran the domestic StepItUp effort last year have now started a global campaign, 350.org, which will officially launch next month but has already organized actions in a dozen states and a dozen countries, and been widely discussed in major articles in the LA Times and Washington Post. If I was better at linking, I'd send you to the piece that originated last week at tomdispatch.com, and was carried widely around the blogosphere, including in Grist. In any event, you can check out the website at 350.org, and more to the point you can help join in the battle. Not easy to do, a global movement, but at least we're trying (and in 14 languages!).On The Climate Policy Paradigm has reached its endgame posted 1 year, 5 months ago 21 Responses