This post is long -- but it's one of my most heartfelt, so I hope you'll bear with me.As I write this, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has begun deliberation on the Clean Energy Act, the major omnibus climate and energy bill that Committee Chair Barbara Boxer has been working on for months. The committee almost didn't meet, because Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, the ranking minority member, chose to boycott the markup and claimed that this should prevent work from....

