Excerpt below from Rockefeller's remarks to the WV "Energy Summit" (actually coal summit) yesterday.

This is very scary news - fox overseeing henhouse - since Jay has become one of the most active and vocal coal proponents (didn't want to use the w word here...).

"And I think there may be an announcement – maybe even as soon as this week -- that I will be elected by my colleagues to chair the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. That committee deals explicitly with climate change and with the technology and research needed to achieve energy security."
 
Complete text at
http://rockefeller.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=305559&
 
Jim Sconyers
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Remember: Mother Nature bats last.