The big news out of Washington on matters environmental has been a unanimous decision by Senate Democrats to craft an impenetrable package: a legislative strategy "more akin to the financial regulatory legislation than of health care, with Democrats bringing to the floor an impenetrable package that Republicans could not roadblock." Specifically, they "plan to anchor the climate and energy effort to widely popular legislation that would overhaul offshore drilling regulations in the wake of the Gulf spill, and then dare Republicans to vote against it."
The "widely popular" legislation, already fast-tracked for action, is S.3516, the Outer Continental Shelf Reform Act of 2010 drafted by Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM). Analysis of that bill below the fold.
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