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During these challenging economic times, we simply cannot afford to make it harder for people to get to work. Yet, transit systems across the country are facing service cuts and fare increases (CNN reports) because of underperforming funding sources.

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The New York Times reported today that the oil, coal, and auto companies (through their lobbying coalition, the Global Climate Coalition) worked to keep the findings of their own scientific team that man-made global warming was happening and a real threat under wraps for the past 15 years. According to documents of the Global Climate Coalition’s scientists in 1995: “The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied”. This morning in the House Energy & Commerce Committee hearings on climate change legislation Al Gore referred to this cover-up as a scam on the American people making the fossil fuel industry “the Bernie Madoff of climate change” and illustrating that these industries’ #1 priority is making profits, even if it ignores their own research.

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People are pretty smart. At Fresh Energy, we work on clean energy issues all across the Midwest. From the Dakotas to Michigan and down to Illinois and Iowa. And we get to talk to lots and lots of people. Airline pilots, engineers, truck drivers, teachers, and self-described homemakers (men and women).

After speaking to quite a few folks over the last few months, it's become apparent that green is dead. Macarena dead. Jumped the shark dead.

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