Calif. board delays decision on whether to impose carbon fee on industry, pledges July action - Carbon Offsets Daily

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — California regulators on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to implement the nation’s first statewide carbon fee on utilities, oil refineries and other polluting industries.

The Melting Pot Project: The Least Popular Bill in America

So, let's get this straight. Environmentalists don't want the bill. Businesses certainly don't want it. Families and individuals shouldn't, because it's apparently not going to solve any climate problems and will cost them a pretty penny to accomplish all of that non-solving. So who in the country does want this legislative epic fail to make it through the Senate as well? Probably no more than 219 people, the same who voted for Waxman-Markey after being bought off with more pork than you can find at a Texas barbeque.

Commentary » Blog Archive » High Theater: Cap-and-Trade Sneaks By

What a scene. But alas it finally ended and the vote ensued. We knew where this was likely to wind up –after all the White House was engaged in some first-rate arm-twisting. Many Democrats who vowed to stand up the to White House received a phone call and melted like butter.

Republicans, encouraged by a stem-winder from Eric Cantor, voted overwhelmingly but not unanimously against the bill, declaring it to be madness to vote for a huge tax, job-killing bill in a recession. Democrats lost a stunning forty-four votes from their side — members who simply didn’t want to face the music back home. (The Democrats had to go so far as to fetch Patrick Kennedy, who had been out for rehab, and John Lewis, who had heart surgery, and delay the resignation of Ellen Tauscher, who is heading to the State Department.)