Not that we needed any more proof that the Climate Change legislation was going to be a sham, but it appears that the compromise reached by Democrats will give a pass to the very industries that it is supposed to target.Mike Lillis of the Washington Independent has the details:Details of the compromise are still emerging, but already the chief sponsors of the measure - Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) - have been forced to lower carbon-reduction targets, cut renewable fuel standards and dole out billions of dollars in benefits to the nation's largest polluting industries. Many environmentalists say the compromise comes at the too-high cost of undermining the bill's very purpose, which is to slash emissions dramatically enough to prevent a warming planet from heating further. Some are asking Democrats either to bolster the environmental protections or to scrap the proposal altogether."We are not prepared to ‘give away the farm' just so that...(Read Full Post)