# Wrap-up: A Busy Earth Week on Capitol Hill 

*Published:* 2009-04-24
*Author:* Keith Gaby

As Tony [wrote earlier](https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2009/04/22/man-of-steel-comes-to-washington/), the House subcommittee working on climate legislation celebrated Earth Week with a packed schedule of testimony.

One of the more interesting participants was [Mayor John Fetterman](http://thecapsolution.org), from tiny Braddock, Pa., who has become a national champion in the fight to cap carbon pollution. He did a great job explaining that for communities like his, a cap on carbon will be an economic lifeline ([see the video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUAdo6vnf6s)). He was joined on the panel by Nat Keohane, EDF’s chief economist.

Here are some wrap-ups:

- Over at PowerShift, Danny Marx [live-blogged the day of testimony](http://www.powershift09.org/node/1034).
- The hearings were noticed back in Pennsylvania, too. Read [what the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09112/964502-113.stm) about the ads Mayor Fetterman did with EDF and his trip to Washington.
- And taking the broad view, Jimmy Seidita posted on Huffington Post that there’s only one must-do to save the planet: [support the Obama administration’s efforts to limit carbon emissions.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jimmy-seidita/strike25-easy-thingsstrik_b_189846.html)

We’ll hear more testimony today, including appearances by former GOP Senator John Warner and Al Gore, and next week the subcommittee starts the tough work of marking up the bill.