Ryan Lizza, writing in the New Yorker, has published a devastating behind-the-scenes story of how the Senate and White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change. It's a fascinating story of capitulation, recalcitrance, and political malpractice.
I tracked the climate bill in the Senate for about a year, generally speaking in favor of passing a mediocre bill now and strengthening it later. The bill that came closest to passing the Senate was not that mediocre bill. Instead, it appears -- its text was never released in public -- in its near-final form to be an abomination one step above the "Dick Cheney's oil lobbyist's wet dream" Energy Policy Act of 2005.
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