The Environmental Appeals Board effectively killed the expansion of the coal industry yesterday in a landmark ruling requiring the "best-available control technology" for CO2 emissions. I'm on my way out the door, but this is big and very welcome news. More commentary at Climate Progress, Think Progress, Daily Kos, and HuffPo.

Everybody's raving about Brian Schweitzer, who managed to get the crowd fired up about energy and about Obama after Warner put them to sleep. (Everybody! Benen, Marshall, Kos, Giordano.)

One of the still-underappreciated stories of this election, I think, is the national hunger for a honest conversation about energy and the environment, something we've been entirely denied by coal-industry-sponsored debates in the primaries and Exxon-sponsored convention coverage in the general.



In the cheap seats, stand up!