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Cap and Trade Vote Results Come with Few Surprises [map]

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Friday evening’s House vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act was much closer than party lines would have predicted. If you want to learn a bit more about the trends, the surprises and the otherwise noteworthy votes, The New York Times published a handy little interactive map that I highly recommend playing around with.

A cursory glance at the map shows the oft-noted trend of Democrats in energy-producing districts voting against taxes and regulations on the fossil fuel industry (i.e Western Colorado, the Dakotas, Southern Louisiana, etc.). While 44 such Democrats jumped ship to vote no, only 8 Republicans supported the bill.

Map Credit: New York Times

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This post was written by: Timothy B. Hurst

Tim Hurst is the founder/editor of ecopolitology and executive editor of LiveOAK Media. Tim mostly covers energy and environmental politics, renewable energy and green business; but seems to write more about music festivals in the summer for some reason. When not reading, writing, thinking, or talking about environmental politics to anyone who will listen, Tim likes to ski, hike with his aging labrador, and toil in his Colorado vegetable garden. He's on twitter at @ecopolitologist.

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