Inter Press Service: Nearly 140 new businesses and interest groups have joined in the intense lobbying in Washington on climate change, according to the Centre for Public Integrity (CPI). A new analysis of lobbying disclosure forms filed with the U.S. Senate, ‘The Climate Lobby’s Nonstop Growth,’ shows that a total of 880 companies and interest groups reported that they lobbied on climate change in the first quarter of 2009, a 14 percent increase from the same period last year. CPI started looking …