Climate Change re-emerges in Senate

Carol Browner, head of the White House staff on Energy and Climate Change, former Bill Clinton EPA Administrator, a known Moderate is hopeful of compromise. She thinks the White house and Kerry's dialogging with Senators over the summer on Climate Change has helped move the issue back to the forefront of the Senate agenda, even as health care dominates.

Most of my lobbyist and political contacts do not think Climate Change will pass in time for the Copenhagen Protocol in December, defining the replacement to the Kyoto Protocol from the 1990's.

New York: GOP Lawmaker a "Hero" in Passage of $5B Green Building and Jobs Bill | SolveClimate.com

Instead of leaving it up to insiders in the power sector to decide how to deploy the immense value of carbon credits "for the benefit of consumers," elected leaders in New York's legislature have designed public policy to leverage the enormous value directly on behalf of their constituents. Other states could follow suit.

The Washington Independent » Boxer Eyes Cost in Prepping for Climate Bill Fight

“Ratepayers aren’t going to be happy when they see their bills going up through the roof,” said Rob Thormeyer, a spokesperson for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the national organization that represents LDCs.

Flashback to 2008: Obama: I’ll make energy prices “skyrocket”

[Obama] Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.