Taking a cue from angry town hall meetings on the Obama Administration's health care restructuring, the oil industry is helping to organize http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/greenpeaceusa_blog/2009/08/13/don_t_l... ">anti-climate legislation rallies around the nation. The American Petroleum Institute, along with other organizations opposed to the Waxman-Markey bill, is funding rallies across 20 states over the August recess.

A draft executive order from President Obama on federal energy use will ask US agencies to cut greenhouse gas emissions 20% from 2010 levels by 2020.