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Well, the dust is still settling from the massive failure in the Senate to produce a meaningful energy bill -- fingers are being pointed, everyone's angry, and there's a

Okay, so I've been up in arms about the official demise of the climate bill in the Senate. I took pains to document who was responsible for killing it.

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The news that reverberated around the web yesterday was hardly unexpected -- the climate bill, which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid finally announced was officially dead, was on its way out for a long time.

Boats that used to bring in fish and shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico are now dredging oil and carrying boom - like this one.

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Those who've long waited for climate and clean energy legislation to make its way out of the Senate are nervously watching the days tick away before the November elections -- wherein the prospect of lost Democratic seats will make it much harder to seriously reform US energy policy and address climate change.

China may be having some trouble coming to grips with its status as a nation that no longer truly qualifies as 'developing' -- its per capita emissions are higher than France's now -- but it looks like

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It's kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago -- a recent poll found that something like only 13% of Americans felt it helped them.

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It looks like Senate Democrats are indeed going to make one last push for energy reform before the November election circus takes the main stage.

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Dear Pablo: We had a home energy audit and the auditor suggested that we switch our space and water heating from natural gas to electric to become more sustainable.

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With all of the jostling around the plans for energy reform, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on: With the competing pieces of legislation, the Kerry-Lieberman bill on the wane, and mixed signals from the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, energy reform has been in flux so long that the details can seem like a wash.