Lobbyists lining up for shot at climate bill
The search for consensus on climate change legislation continues next week in the Senate, but it seems every day brings fresh reminders of how difficult that effort could be.
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has sought to entice wavering senators by stressing the legislation is as much about the economy as the environment. On Tuesday, her panel will examine how the clean-energy technologies’ supporters say the legislation will improve local and state economies that have been withered by the recession.
Previously, Boxer and the EPW Committee, which will write the climate bill, have looked at ways farmers and ranchers will benefit and ways the economy at large could remain competitive with other countries without carbon restraints if the United States moves forward on its own.