PDA's Stop Global Warming IOT Pushes Climate Plan B on Capitol Hill

Submitted by Anna on Fri, 05/14/2010 - 13:15

May 12, 2010, Washington, DC

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So, how do you get Congress to really listen to you? Progressive Democrats of America’s (PDA) Stop Global Warming Team explored that question, and they came up with a plan: Send a couple of team members to hit Capitol Hill the week after Earth Day, just as Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman were unveiling their long-awaited compromise climate bill (KGL). PDA’s Stop Global Warming Issue Organizing Team (IOT) coordinators James Handley and Kathy Callan planned to discuss PDA’s direct CO2 pricing proposal to skip the markets, trading and offsets. They would talk about returning revenue to citizens instead of giving allowances to polluters and point out the flaws in the KGL bill. Things turned out a bit differently.

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