Needless to say, it's been a depressing year for environmentally conscious folk -- with the BP spill, the hottest global temps on record, and the death of any hopes for climate legislation in the US, it's been bleak, bleak, bleak. But at least someone's winning: The industries profiting from selling us coal and oil! Yes, the failure of the climate bill in the Senate was no fluke -- a new report tallies up the amount that coal, oil, utilities, and heavy industries forked over in lobbying the government to maintain the status quo. Over the last year and a half, it came out to around $500 million. Now, guess how much renewable energy lobbyists spent?
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