Written by Will Fischer, Climate Action St. Louis organizer

Washington, D.C.: When asked this week about climate change legislation, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill responded, “I think it’s still a work in progress. You know, it took 50 years on health care.”

Yesterday, July 20th, on the three-month anniversary of the oil disaster in the Gulf, two Carolinians hung banners at the Daughters of Confederacy building in Charleston's old city to express concern over Senator Lindsey Graham's continued support of offshore drilling for South Carolina. "Drilling off the coast of South Carolina directly threatens the low country lifestyle central to South Carolina heritage and culture.

On Thursday, students in Richmond, Virginia asked Senator Mark Warner to choose: will he stand with us, the people, or with Big Oil polluters? Decked out with wind turbines and oil barrels, the group painted out the two sides perfectly. Both Virginia Senators, Senator Warner and Senator Webb, have taken money from dirty energy sources in the past year and continue to support oil and coal handouts.