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| Democrat opens fire, literally, on Obama's climate change agenda | Suzanne Goldenberg Democrats facing a tough fight in mid-terms are distancing themselves from Obama. Now one says he will stand and fightA number of Democrats trying to hang on to their careers in these congressional elections are distancing themselves from Barack Obama, but only one, so far, is suggesting he would take a gun to the president's energy policies. In a new campaign aid, Joe Manchin, the Democratic governor of West Virginia who is now running for a seat in the Senate, picks up a rifle and fires a bullet into a target labelled "cape and trade bill".Manchin is pictured loading bullets into the gun while striding across an autumn landscape before letting off the shot. He says: "I sued the EPA and I'll take dead aim at the cap and trade." Any chance of Congress passing a cap and trade bill died long ago. But Manchin's ad is not entirely political theatrics.With climate legislation defeated, Republicans and other opponents of action on global warming are trying to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its powers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Manchin as governor sued the EPA last week to stop the government from enforcing regulations that would restrict mountaintop mining removal. As the name suggests, the highly destructive method involves blasting the tops off mountains, and dumping the debris in valleys. Roughly 2,000 miles of West Virginia's streams have been contaminated this way.Manchin has been facing an onslaught from Republicans who accuse him of siding with Obama and Democrats in Congress against West Virginia's coal industry. Other Democrats in Manchin's predicament are adopting a similar strategy. Joe Donnelly, an Indiana Congressman who is in a tough fight for re-election in Elkhart, an area that soured on Obama because of high unemployment, is running television ads that refers to climate change legislation as "Nancy Pelosi's energy tax".Donnelly voted against last year's climate bill in the house.US midterm elections 2010Climate change scepticismBarack ObamaClimate changeUnited StatesObama administrationDemocratsSuzanne Goldenbergguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Video | Younge America: US midterm elections preview Gary Younge previews his new series on the US midterm elections, in which he drives from Colorado to Nevada in search of Obama's grassroots army and the Tea PartyGary YoungeLaurence Topham guardian.co.uk |
Merkel Walks a Tightrope on German Immigration Pandering to right-wing anti-immigrant sentiment helps her struggling party win votes, but her country's economy needs immigration feedproxy.google.com |
Skirmishes Break Out as Guinea Delays Poll Security forces in Guinea's capital fired live rounds to try to stop fighting and looting, residents said, and violence erupted in several other towns after an election set for this weekend was indefinitely delayed. online.wsj.com |
Joshua Tree National Park Kicks-off Restoration Projects in Preparation for 75th Anniversary - Video STAMFORD, Conn., Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In partnership with the National Parks Conservation Association, Arrowhead® Brand Mountain Spring Water held the first jointly supported, volunteer-based restoration project at the iconic Joshua Tree National Park to help revitalize and restore the park, leading up to its 75th Anniversary. Breaking ground on Saturday, October 23, Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water representatives teamed-up with park officials and community volunteers to restore two highly travelled areas of the park – the Hidden Valley Trailhead and trails leading out to the popular r feedproxy.google.com |