Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Dems Go Medium on Climate, Part 2: Spill Bill Passes E&NR

by RLMiller

Good news, not-so-good news on climate/energy news today. The Bingaman "spill bill" reforming leasing practices at the Agency Formerly Known as Big MMesS, S.3516, draft previously analyzed, has passed the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee on a unanimous vote.  However, there's no certain path to transforming that victory into a climate bill.  It seems that when the Democrats decided last week to go big by attaching climate legislation to the spill bill, they forgot to agree on a particular climate bill to attach to the spill bill.  Whoops.



continued at Daily Kos....