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Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - Obama's science advisors says, "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is power

President Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's Nick...

Holdren: "The Administration remains committed to getting comprehensive energy and climate legislation through the Congress this year." - "The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is powerful and I think it should be pe

President Barack Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, said this yesterday that the "most important single thing that we need to get done in this country" to address energy and climate change issues is to pass legislation "that puts a significant price on greenhouse gas emissions." Without that, he added, the U.S. will not be doing enough to reduce emissions "and we will not have the credibility we need ultimately to forge the sort of international agreement that is required."  WWF's N...

Kill Spill, Pass Bill! - As BP stems flow (for now), Obama asserts, "This disaster should serve as a wake-up call that it's time to move forward on" climate bill.

The 37th day since the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig saw several very dark clouds in the BP oil disaster, as well as a silver lining.

BP undertook a "top kill" maneuver to staunch the river of oil coming from the damaged well.   This effort involved shooting drilling muds into the drilling apparatus on the ocean floor to block the oil from escape:

In the top kill maneuver, a 30,000-horsepower engine aboard a ship injected heavy drill liquids through two narrow flow lines into the...