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by Kent Garber
Polls show new interest from voters in tackling carbon pollution
It's hard to remember, but before
The
The story didn't change much this spring. Three senators -- one Democrat (John Kerry), one independent (Joe Lieberman), and one Republican (Lindsey Graham) -- put together an energy and climate plan after months of closed-door meetings, but Graham pulled his support once Senate Democrats began talking about taking up immigration.
The hope had been to come up with something that might quiet some of the rhetoric from both sides and have a shot at passing the
It wasn't until the massive Gulf oil spill, at the end of April, that President Obama began pushing publicly once again for an energy and climate bill.
The public, it seems, is with him: Several recent polls have shown that, in the aftermath of the spill, a strong majority of Americans
support action to tackle carbon pollution and to spur more renewable energy. But so far,
All the same, it's unlikely that energy issues will rank as high in voters' minds this year as they did in 2008, when gas prices were
soaring above
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