http://communities.thomsonreuters.com/Carbon/410436

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1576

A letter from ten U.S. Senators to President Obama.

http://brown.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ClimateChange_Manuf.pdf

Below is a link to a recent Wall Street Journal article on climate change science. From their perspective, significantly more scientists are becoming skeptical of climate change.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597505076157449.html

The House Ag Committee has won a major argument on who is to administer the offset program in the new energy bill.

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/06/24/24climatewire-farm-groups-prevail-as-house-climate-bill-pu-24287.html

This is an interesting article that hints at the international problems that arise in developing countries when industrialized countries begin to purchase carbon offset credits from forests -an international version of carpetbaggers combined with little regulation and financial management in the developing countries. 

Think of what this implies to a U.S. energy bill that allows for international REDD offsets.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL171901

From the New York Times:

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/oil-industry-blasts-house-climate-bill/?hp

My Illinois farmer friend, John Phipps, has been spending a lot of time worrying about cap and trade legislation. He recently blogged about this survey concerning the public’s understanding of the issue.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/environment/congress_pushes_cap_and_trade_but_just_24_know_what_it_is

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

An interesting article by Peter Huber of the Manhattan Institute on carbon, the developing world, and land use change.

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_2_carbon.html