Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl” has never felt fresher than in this stirring rendition from our friends at the Natural Resources Defense Council. But that’s sort of damning it with faint praise.

Upton Bill
You know Fred Upton’s Bill will make you ill

I thought he’d never be a smokestack guy
But now he hates clean air I don’t know why

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