Australia sidelines team working on ETS, shrouding scheme in doubt

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has quietly transferred the team working on his emissions trading scheme (ETS) to another project, indicating he may have decided not to bring the programme before the Senate for yet another vote next month.

Rudd’s ruling Labor Party has amassed a team of more than 150 people and an annual budget of A$57m ($52.8m) dedicated to the ETS. But with the Senate having already rejected the scheme twice, and Rudd hesitant to call a snap general election, the decision has been made to redirect the “phantom team” to other projects.

US lawmaker says odds against Senate passage of climate [hoax] bill

Chances remain low that the Senate will pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation this year despite a more bipartisan approach in recent months to build political consensus to support it, US Senator Mark Pryor [D-Arkansas] tells Recharge.
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“The politics are better, but it’s still more likely that an energy bill will pass without the climate component,” he says.

Transcript of Rudy Giuliani & Wolf Blitzer Interview on CNN

Giuliani:  [Charlie Crist] supports Cap-and-Trade, which I think -- we could go into that. I mean that's going to -- you know, 20 more buildings in Washington and another 50,000 federal workers trying to figure out what the caps are going to be on every one of our industries and homes and buildings and...