Climate Lobby

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.

A closer examination reveals that the American Clean Energy abd Security Act could create a "super-lobby" of interest groups that will significantly diminish the possibility of achieving future reforms.

They're all part of a crazy quilt of about 140 businesses and organizations that jumped into the climate change debate on Capitol Hill in the first qu...