While it's a sad fact that corporate and industry interests regularly write the basis for much of our Federal legislation, there has been some impressive political maneuvering from the coal and utility industry around the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act. In many ways, the ACES bill reads like a wish list for the coal

Today is a historic day for the climate change
movement. A UK Crown Court jury effectively ruled that taking direct
action, breaking the law, and even property damage are all justified in
the course of stopping catastrophic climate change.

The quote
from one of the charged activist sums it up well:

“When 12 normal people say it is
legitimate for a direct action group to shut down a coal-fired power
station because of the harm it does to our planet then where does that
leave government energy policy?”

Sometimes, we all get a little caught up in talking and arguing about politics.