This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.

Our own Steve Cochran was on C-Span's Washington Journal this morning with David Kreutzer of the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank), debating the Climate Security Act under consideration by the Senate this week. The hour-long call-in show got pretty animated at times. You can watch it on C-Span's Web site.

This post is by Tony Kreindler, media director for the National Climate Campaign at Environmental Defense Fund.

The coming vote on the Climate Security Act is our best chance to pass climate legislation this year – something the science, the politics, and the economics say we need NOW. If you're still not sure we need rapid action to cut greenhouse gases, read this. Now is the time to act.

Even if we fall short of enacting a new law in 2008, this vote is a critical opportunity for Senators to stand up and go on record as supporting urgent action on climate change. Anything else will take away from the momentum to act. The bottom line is this: People who oppose this bill are giving comfort to the oil companies.

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This post is by Elizabeth Thompson, legislative director at Environmental Defense Fund.

This afternoon, the Senate approved a procedural motion that forces the Senate to take up the Climate Security Act. But the Senate is the Senate, and people who are set on ignoring the urgent need to act are using Senate procedures to slow down progress.

The speeches continue. We anticipate that the debate about the bill itself will start Wednesday or Thursday.

This post is by Tony Kreindler, media director for the National Climate Campaign at Environmental Defense Fund.

After all the build-up – the opinion writing, the ad campaigns, the committee work, and the economic analysis – we're in the home stretch. The full Senate is ready to consider acting on global warming.

Today, the Senate is scheduled to kick things off with a motion to proceed on the Climate Security Act. Here's how we expect the next couple of weeks to unfold.

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