by RLMiller
President Obama and Senate leaders have committed to pass a bill in response to the Gulf disaster. But will it be a climate-and-energy bill, or a stand-alone energy bill with a possible (but hard-to-pass) climate amendment? Suddenly, the American Power Act (Kerry-Lieberman "climate bill") is being abandoned in favor of the toothless American Clean Energy Leadership Act that passed the Energy & Natural Resources Committee nearly a year ago. This morning, aides to Senator Harry Reid (N-NV) state that he's planning to move an energy-only bill to the Senate floor, letting the climate bill be considered as an easily defeatable amendment. The Financial Times sums up Reid's plan: climate legislation could be buried for a generation. Action alert! below the fold.
continued at Daily Kos....
