Senate Draft of Climate [Hoax] Legislation Makes Unofficial Debut - NYTimes.com

"It just seems totally out of touch with reality," said Glenn English, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, which represents hundreds of coal-dependent utilities.
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"What we've heard from the majority side is they want a market-based federal national program, but it seems we're going to have that national program ... on top of EPA regulation, which is totally unworkable," said Mike Catanzaro, deputy staff director for the Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans, at a press briefing yesterday.

He said that the pre-emption issue is likely to be "front and center" in any Senate floor debate over climate legislation, although he called the prospect of that debate occurring over the next several months "unlikely."
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Justice Department gets offset fraud sleuths
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On an unrelated matter, the bill adds another government agency into the carbon offset mix: the Justice Department. In what one lobbyist called a "criminalization of offsets," the draft establishes a "carbon offsets integrity unit" under the assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division to conduct investigations and enforce laws related to offsets.

[Because of belief in climate fraud, Nike resigns from Chamber of Commerce board, but not from the Chamber itself]

Nike believes US businesses must advocate for aggressive climate change legislation and that the United States needs to move rapidly into a sustainable economy to remain competitive and ensure continued economic growth.
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Therefore, we have decided to resign our board of directors position. We will continue our membership to advocate for climate change legislation inside the committee structure and believe that we can better influence policy by being part of the conversation. Moving forward we will continue to evaluate our membership.

Are these serial resignations carefully timed in an attempt to maximize influence on the climate hoax bill in the Senate?