With every passing day, Congress outdoes its own abysmal environmental record.
Even as federal policymakers consider a transportation bill that
would open up sensitive areas for offshore drilling, encourage use of
dirty oil shale, force a decision on the Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline,
and derail public investments in public transportation, they couldn’t
even compromise on a simple short-term tax credit for wind energy.
Wind businesses were calling an extension of the credit an
“emergency” due to looming mass layoffs in the industry. But as history
has proven time and time again, if it’s clean and renewable, it doesn’t
force any urgency in Congress.
