Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:30 AM

Green Group Warns House On Climate Bill

From this morning's Earlybird:

• "The League of Conservation Voters (LCV), an environmental group that is an active player in political campaigns, said it would not endorse any member of the House who opposed the climate bill scheduled to be voted on this week," The Hill reports. "The bill would create a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent over the next four decades."

• "President Barack Obama's executive order banning lobbyists from joining any areas of the executive branch that they might have lobbied in the past two years appears to have sparked several public interest group terminations under the Lobbying Disclosure Act," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "But not all nonprofit advocates are shy about registering to lobby."

• "Lee Geisse bound the stack of letters supporting the House climate change bill in baler twine, a symbolic, back-home gesture to reassure Ohio Democratic Rep. John Boccieri the measure wouldn't hurt his rural constituents," The Hill reports. "Geisse was one of around 50 union officials on Capitol Hill this week to persuade members from agriculture and industrial states who are wary the climate bill will increase energy costs and drive jobs overseas."

• "This development bears watching, as the left wing of the Democratic Party keeps going after top lawmakers within its own realm," the New York Times reports. "MoveOn has begun urging its sizable membership to hound Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, criticizing her for cautionary remarks she made on CNN on Sunday about overhauling the health care system."