{"id":714,"date":"2009-04-24T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/04\/24\/wrap-up-a-busy-earth-week-on-capitol-hill\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:48:26","slug":"wrap-up-a-busy-earth-week-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/04\/24\/wrap-up-a-busy-earth-week-on-capitol-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap-up: A Busy Earth Week on Capitol Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Tony <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/04\/22\/man-of-steel-comes-to-washington\/\">wrote earlier<\/a>, the House subcommittee working on climate legislation celebrated Earth Week with a packed schedule of testimony.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting participants was <a href=\"http:\/\/thecapsolution.org\">Mayor John Fetterman<\/a>, 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 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GUAdo6vnf6s\">see the video<\/a>). He was joined on the panel by Nat Keohane, EDF&#8217;s chief economist.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some wrap-ups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at PowerShift, Danny Marx <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powershift09.org\/node\/1034\">live-blogged the day of testimony<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The hearings were noticed back in Pennsylvania, too. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/09112\/964502-113.stm\">what the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote<\/a> about the ads Mayor Fetterman did with EDF and his trip to Washington.<\/li>\n<li>And taking the broad view, Jimmy Seidita posted on Huffington Post that there&#8217;s only one must-do to save the planet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jimmy-seidita\/strike25-easy-thingsstrik_b_189846.html\">support the Obama administration&#8217;s efforts to limit carbon emissions.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tony wrote earlier, the House subcommittee working on climate legislation celebrated Earth Week with a packed schedule of testimony. 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