Environmentalists will spend $11 million on a campaign to ensure that Senators "vote the right way."

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Four liberal groups are planning an $11 million campaign beginning next week on ads designed to pressure Senators on the need for comprehensive energy reform. The money, which is coming from the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, Service Employees International Union and VoteVets.org, will be spent primarily on television ads targeting a half-dozen Senators for their recent vote on a proposal that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. (The measure failed 53-47.) "We will hold key Senators accountable who vote the right way and who vote the wrong way on comprehensive energy and climate reform," promised LCV president Gene Karpinsky. The ads are rightly regarded as a warning shot for wayward Senators ahead of what many in the environmental community expect will be a debate on the floor over the idea of comprehensive reform sometime next month. Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com