Top advocacy and lobbying stories from this week's National Journal: (subscription)

• "Dueling Economic Outlooks On Cap-And-Trade:" Climate-change legislation will either create big headaches for the U.S. economy or give it a boost. That's the message of warring coalitions from the business and environmental worlds as Congress wrestles with the issue. Energy Citizens, a new grassroots coalition largely underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute, says it will cost jobs. The Blue Green Alliance -- a coalition of six unions, including the powerful Service Employees International Union, the Sierra Club, and the Natural Resources Defense Council - says it will create jobs.
• "Tax Reform Alarms Tech Sector:" Technology companies, among President Obama's strongest supporters in 2008, are preparing to battle the administration on tax reform policy.
• "Health Insurance Reform Or Payback?": Health insurance lobbyists are battling congressional Democrats calls to eliminate the industry's antitrust exemption, and the White House appears to be backing away from helping Democrats with their efforts.
• "K Street Is Humming": Nine months into the year, K Street is humming and the number of registered lobbyists actively lobbying has risen 6 percent, according to lobbying disclosure documents filed with the Senate Office Of Public Records.
• "Big Fish In Abramoff Scandal About To Swim Away":October marks a significant deadline in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal as the government likely runs out of time to indict anyone not yet charged on conspiracy in the long-running investigation -- including a former lawmaker who at one time was considered a key target in the public corruption probe.
• "On The Move": Lauren Faber has joined the Lighthouse Consulting Group as a senior director. She leaves the British Embassy, where she was senior policy adviser for climate change and energy.