Today 31 environmental groups including the Sierra Club, the NRDC and the League of Conservation Voters sent a strongly worded letter to the Senate to get the climate bill moving again.
The only holdout organizations were Greenpeace and Bill McKibben’s 350.org, not because they don’t want climate legislation. On the contrary. They want perfect policy. Both are holding out for something that will never happen.
Ponies will not descend from the heavens magically bearing Republican Senators who don’t filibuster every bill. The most powerful industry on the planet will not be magically robbed of its power to prevent policy enactment.
Although they don’t mean to, their intransigence only helps the opposition. (more…)