Climate Bill Set Aside, What's Next for U.S. Energy Policy

07.26.2010 | 21:07:00 pm | Posted by WattHead

I appeared last Friday on 88.9 KCRW Santa Monica and Public Radio International's nationally-syndicated show To the Point to discuss the recent withdrawal by Sen Harry Reid (D-NV) of a compromised Energy bill based on largely on a framework of Cap and Trade. After more than $100 million in lobbying by green groups and allied industry players, and the bill's eventual watering down to a utility-only cap, Majority Leader Reid confessed that there was still no way he or the party would be able to muster the sixty votes necessary for the beleaguered legislation to pass.This is the fourth time i...

 
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