“We intend to consider comprehensive clean energy-climate legislation that will cap global warming pollution and create jobs,” said Regan Lachapelle, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), on Wednesday.
The Hill seems to be doing some of the most even-handed political reporting on the bipartisan climate, clean air, clean energy jobs bill (see, for instance, The Hill: “Dozens of Democrats want to move a climate change bill, including centrists such as Sen. Arlen Specter”). Yesterday’s story opened:
There’s plenty of speculation that shepherding an emissions-capping bill through the Senate in 2010 is so daunting that Democrats will scale back their aims, and instead take up a package of only energy measures while shelving the climate bill for another time.
But for now at least, the Senate’s top Democrat says that’s not the plan.
It will be one of the biggest — and most important — political battles of our time (see “The central question for 2010: Will anti-science ideologues be able to kill the bipartisan climate and clean energy jobs bill?“)
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It’s good to hear this.
I do not know at all if this is true, but it strikes me that as a general rule the process oriented horse-race focused political reports don’t seem at all interested in climate change. Do they spend so much time in a kind of bubble world of offices, hotels, and airports that they are in some way unaware of the climate around them?
With every “climate killer”* lined up against this bill, it will be a nasty, brutish fight.
* From Rolling Stone; includes billionaires Warren Buffett, and of course, Rupert Murdoch.
They ‘intend to consider’ – such a low standard. Something the last 5 congresses have done.
What is going to happen in the Massachusetts special election for Senate, to replace the late Sen. Kennedy? There are worries about this campaign.