Remembering Robert Byrd: Long-serving coal state Senator had shifted toward climate science and action - He called effort to block EPA action a vote "to dismiss scientific facts" about climate change

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) died Monday.  America lost a great public servant and a likely 'yes' vote for climate action.  A TP piece about his career, "Byrd's Life Of Learning," is below.

Amazingly, one of the things that Byrd learned during his life is that coal consumption has serious environmental consequences, including human-caused global warming, which demand legislative action — see Sen. Byrd stunner (12/3/09): "Coal Must Embrace The Future: The truth is that some form of climate...