Bloomberg News: Global warming rules might "help ensure that the Democrats lose the Senate in 2014"

Changing the Conversation on Climate Change - Bloomberg

As in 2009, the main challenge will be in the Senate. Although a regulatory approach wouldn’t require positive congressional action -- or the 60 votes necessary to stop a filibuster -- it could be rescinded by a majority vote. Emissions rules might lose such a vote even in the present Democratic-controlled Senate. And if they survived -- especially if they survived thanks to a presidential veto -- they might only help ensure that the Democrats lose the Senate in 2014.
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(Rohit T. Aggarwala leads the environmental program at Bloomberg Philanthropies and is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. The opinions expressed are his own.)