Despite efforts by members and the chairman of the Senate Education Committee to convince their House counterparts to go along with approving new state science standards without deleting five sections referring to climate change, the senators reported today that the House wouldn’t sign on. "Those rejections by the House are standing,” Senate Education Chairman Dean Mortimer, R-Idaho Falls, told the Senate panel this afternoon. “And so with that in mind, I think that it’s important that we maintain the 370 out of the 375 standards.” So Mortimer moved to match the House panel’s action – approve the new standards with the exception of the five on climate change/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.