CHANGE WE CAN'T BELIEVE IN - AT 7:16 P.M. ET:   'Tis a new day in Washington, with purity and goodness all around, and not a thought about profit or advantage.  Oh yez, oh yez.  From The Washington Times:

Democratic lawmakers who spent much of the Bush administration blasting officials for letting energy lobbyists write national policy have turned to a coalition of business and environmental groups to help draft their own sweeping climate bill.

And one little-noticed provision of the draft bill would give one of the coalition's co-founders a lucrative exemption on a coal-fired project it is building.

Such trivia, such trivia.

The exemption would save Duke Energy -- along with other firms now building new coal power plants -- from having to spend millions of dollars outfitting its Cliffside, N.C., power plant currently under construction with "clean coal" technology.

Just a little fine print, folks.  Just some fine print.  Nothing to see.

May 4, 2009