Climate bill politics are heating up

After months of promoting President Obama's climate plan as a vehicle to create millions of clean-energy jobs, supporters of the legislation are increasingly pushing another strategy -- its benefits for national security. It's a deliberate, anxiety-themed effort to press a handful of fence-sitting moderates to support a bill that will probably be the administration's next great legislative push after healthcare. A coalition backing the energy and climate bill pending before the Senate has enlisted war veterans to pressure senators in person. In television advertisements, the coalition calls dependence on foreign oil a threat to national security and fuel for terrorists. Other new ads feature pictures of angry Middle Eastern crowds and impoverished "climate refugees," many apparently African...LATimes