VIDEO: Climate blogs and news roundup: Congressional leaders feel the love

Many of you worked hard to contact your Representative to ask them to vote the Clean Energy legislation out of the Energy and Commerce Committee and you deserve a thank you.

Some of the Members who voted with the environmental community got a thank you in the form of ads back in their district. Here is a sample of a few ads from three Representatives who voted for the clean energy bill at the Energy and Commerce committee.

VoteVet's Thank You - Zack Space and Clean Energy

VoteVet's Thank You - Mary Bono Mack and Clean Energy (Remember, Rep. Bono Mack is the one Republican who voted for the bill, making it a bi-partisan effort.)

The Wall Street Journal’s blog had a good read on China Challenge: How Can U.S., China Tackle Climate Change?

There’s a new parlor game in Washington these days: Trying to figure out how the U.S. and China can work together to tackle climate change.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hosted the latest round today, as resident China optimist John Kerry called in a slate of heavyweights to explain just how important it is to get China on board and just how difficult that is going to be.

The testimony—from the Carnegie Institute’s Bill Chandler, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Elizabeth Economy, and Brookings’ Kenneth Lieberthal—was chock full of praise for all the green things China is doing these days. There’s lots of it—from big plans for wind farms to dynamiting dinky and dirty old coal-fired power plants."

Here is some good news from Wisconsin: WITI TV (Milwaukee), 6/2/09, “Wisconsin Can Save Money by Replacing Fossil Fuels with Renewable Energy,” SUMMARY: A report released Tuesday says Wisconsin can save money by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy source, such as wind power.

And finally, The Washington Post’s award winning columnist Eugene Robinson hit the nail on the head with his column on the dirty coal money buried in the clean energy jobs legislation. He said, what’s it doing there? (although he says it better, so read here: in "Coal's Pipedream?"