Obama Attempt to Push Climate Bill with Oil Spill Outrage Appears to Fail | Oil Price.com

Even those supportive of climate legislation saw little connection between the oil spill crisis and emission controls.

“It’s unrelated,” said Sen. Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska, in remarks reported by Bloomberg. “Obviously the emissions that we are talking about are primarily coal-fired electricity generation from Nebraska. That doesn’t have much to do with the Gulf.”