Congress is taking up the Waxman-Markey energy-greenhouse-cap-trade bill as we speak. Some related linkage:

• It's been easy for supporters of greenhouse gas reductions to offer a united front when all they had to do was complain about the Bush administration. Now that they've moved on to actually having to make laws, agreement is proving a bit more difficult. 
• Michael Tobis ponders the deeper questions associated with the role of the news media in the current national/international discussion of climate change and greenhouse gas reductions: "The press isn't giving us the vocabulary to think about our circumstances."
• Kate Sheppard tries to count the votes. Also live tweets the action.