"It seems that environmentalists are struggling in a fight they have spent years setting up. They are making slow progress adapting a movement built for other goals -- building alarm over climate change, encouraging people to "green" their lives -- into a political hammer, pushing a complex proposal the last mile through a skeptical Senate.

Even now, these groups differ on whether to scare the public with predictions of heat waves or woo it with promises of green jobs. And they are facing an opposition with tycoon money and a gift for political stagecraft."

David A. Fahrenthold reports for the Washington Post August 31, 2009. [2]

See Also:

"Senators Spend Recess Fine-Tuning Messages on Cap and Trade" (ClimateWire) [3]