Obama: “Don’t Give Up” on Carbon Cap

President Obama delivered a clear message to Senate Democrats yesterday — just because comprehensive clean energy & climate legislation is hard doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing:

“Don’t give up on that,” Obama said in a televised question-and-answer session with Senate Democrats. “I don’t want us to just say the easy way out is for us to just give a bunch of tax credits to clean energy companies.”

Obama praised the effort by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) to craft a compromise bill that blends emissions limits with new support for nuclear power, low-emissions coal and offshore drilling.

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Americans, America’s wildlife, and our wild places from the worst
effects of global warming.