It is difficult to understand how, with huge Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, with a Democratic president who says he is committed to reversing climate change and a majority of the American public saying they’re concerned about the environment, the legislation that is winding its way through Congress has become a shell of what it should be.
Or, maybe it’s not that difficult at all.
As with the health care fight, there has been plenty of money flowing through this debate.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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