The US Senate has thus far been unremarkable with its response and immediate actions to the Gulf oil spill. Friedman tells us that diminishing America's addiciton to oil and providing insurance against climate change by reducing US carbon emissions have not been very popular topics in the US Senate. Now, the test will be whether the US Senate will provide federal funding to restore America's critical ecosytems.
"The Senate’s failure to act is a result of many factors, but one is that the climate-energy policy debate got disconnected from average people."
More from Thomas Friedman's NY Times article here.
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