This should be interesting:

We’re launching a new and interesting project over at the WhoRunsGov mothership — a vigorous effort to shed light on which special interests and key players are shaping and driving the behind-the-scenes debate on climate change.

It’s called Who Runs Climate Change? And you can check it out right here.

The driving idea is that an enormous amount of the haggling, obstructing, log-jam-breaking, and all-around negotiating about climate change legislation — about the future of the planet — takes place out of sight, in the dark bowels of the legislative process. And it’s largely driven by powerful interests, forces, and key players you’ve never heard of.

That’s where you come in. In partnership with NewsTrust, which rates news stories based on usefulness, our new project hopes to enlist your help in finding, and rating, the most informative articles shedding light on who controls the levers of the climate change debate: Lobbyists, consultants, business groups, environmental advocates, legislative staffers, etc.

Then you’d enter new and relevant info about these players in their WhoRunsGov profiles.

The project runs from November 16th through November 22. We’ll highlight our top contributions and announce the most interesting Who’s Who results and findings on Wednesday, December 2.

Instructions on how to join up and chip in are right here. We hope you participate — and hope you find it useful.