Last Saturday, Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama took the stage at Live Earth in one more attempt to realign himself with climate activists after his (failed) dirty work in the Senate to provide funding for coal-to-liquid technologies created quite a stir in the climate community.

An article in The Hill shows that after USCEC’s petition exposed Obama’s Coal-to-Liquid amendment, the Senator quickly readjusted his stance:

In a statement released before the Senate energy debate, Obama announced that he would only support the development of coal-to-liquid fuels if they emitted less global warming-linked carbon than conventional fuels.

Obama also voted against an amendment sponsored by Bunning that would have mandated the use of coal-to-liquid fuels.

Just a reminder of the great power in political action!!