Coming off the week of the successful 72 Hours for Clean American Power campaign, we continue our work to protect the Clean Air Act and get the Senate going on climate legislation. 1Sky ally Greenpeace floated a banner to show polluter-lawmaker relationships while Senator Inhofe flies the flag of Dirty Coal. India officially joined the Copenhagen Accord... conditionally. That, Green Patriot Posters, and a climate champ Senator tells scientist to learn from Sylvester Stallone below.

For the last forty years, every spring has meant counting down the days until Earth Day. This holiday has meant many things for different people over the years. Multiple issues have been highlighted; millions of people have helped clean up streams and parks; countless bands have played at benefits for the Earth. At times, even our friends in the oil industry have tried to steal Earth Day away from us by spending money to try to convince you that they are the true environmental stewards.

This was the week of 72 Hours for Clean American Power. You probably heard about the massive call campaign from us, but lots of groups were a part of this effort, and several posted reports back from supporters who called. We also read more this week about green job efforts both ongoing and in the works. Finally, a friend of the climate change movement came out with a great video showing the growth of the movement in 2009. more »

Cross-posted from the Huffington Post

We are hearing lots of conflicting statements on the status of a comprehensive climate bill. Depending on who you read or listen to, it's either still a viable, passable solution in the Senate or it's dead in the water. It's easy to see why some people might have written off a comprehensive climate bill: the quagmire of the U.N. talks at Copenhagen and the delays in the Senate to combine legislation since September could lead one to believe that legislators really aren't concerned with a bill this year. more »

With preparations underway for a massive, multi-organization calling initiative (72 Hours for Clean American Power), all eyes are on the Senate. This week the Senate-climate news online came in the good, the bad, and the… legislative. What we learned is that the climate bill's chances are not gone, but it seems that the Hummer is. more »

This was a good week for climate change thought leadership online. The head of Green for All wrote about what the 60s civil rights movement can teach us, Thomas Friedman wrote on new ways of talking about climate science, and Pew released a new video about how the military has a stake in stopping climate change. Read on for some of the week's best. more »

The conventional wisdom inside some corners of the snowed-in Beltway for months has been that a vote in favor of cap and trade -- or any sort of comprehensive climate bill that sets a price on carbon -- is a quick ticket to political oblivion for anyone not in a safely Democratic seat. Thankfully, there’s a new poll out today (.pdf -- first reported on over at Swing State Project) that can hopefully show such wisdom to be as in touch with reality as industry-supported talking points on the practicality of "clean" coal technology.

Much of the news this week was dominated by the monster snowstorm that blanketed much of the East Coast. While it gave some people the chance to play in snow like they've never seen, others saw it as a chance to make ridiculous statements about it disproving climate change. Fortunately Bill Nye, Jon Stewart, and others set the record straight. That and Greenpeace's new dating site for Big Polluter lobbyists were the highlights of the week.

If you live in the DC metro area (and assuming we don't suffer yet another Snowmageddon next week), here's a great climate-related event you can attend. The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is hosting a free public event on Tuesday, February 16 at 7pm to share international perspectives on the outcomes of the December 2009 meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen, a.k.a. COP-15.