Lobbyists spent more than $2 billion trying to influence climate legislation in the US Congress between 2000 and 2016, according to a study by Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle published today in the journal Climatic Change. ITAI VARDY reports for DESMOG UK
Neither greens nor fossil-fuel addicts are happy with it, and there could be better ways of forcing the US to reduce its emissions. So should we just scrap the Waxman-Markey climate bill?