Friday, December 18, 2009 8:50 AM
Need-To-Know Memo, Dec. 18
By Emily Vaughan, NationalJournal.com
1) President Obama arrived in Copenhagen today to meet with world leaders and speak about the need for swift action on climate change (New York Times). For more coverage of the Copenhagen conference, check out our Copenhagen Insider blog. Complete text of his remarks is available here.
2) A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows support is waning for Obama's handling of climate change. It also highlighted growing doubt among the public about the certainty of climate change science (Washington Post).
3) Business leaders in coal-dependent West Virginia expressed shock at Sen. Robert Byrd's statement signaling his support for climate change legislation and opposition to mountaintop removal mining (Politico).
4) Low natural gas prices and the recession are weighing heavily on the budgets of energy-producing states, which "have been losing jobs at a faster pace than the rest of the U.S., a trend some economists say is unlikely to reverse quickly" (Wall Street Journal).
5) "Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley and American Soybean Association officials said Thursday that the Senate's failure to extend the biodiesel tax credit beyond Dec. 31 means that biodiesel plants will shut down and begin laying off workers early in 2010" (CongressDailyAM -- subscription).
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