Obama's former Climate Czar Carol Browner, on why cap and trade didn't pass the Senate: "They ran out of time"

Uncommon Interview: Carol Browner – The Chicago Maroon

Carol Browner: One of the primary reasons they never even got to a debate is that they ran out of time. They ran out of time because there was eight weeks that Max Baucus and [Chuck] Grassley spent trying to get an agreement on health care. Ted Kennedy died; I mean, a lot of things happened.
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CM: Why do you think that climate change is an issue that has not really caught on with the American populace? There doesn’t seem to be that big of a push to do something about it.

CB: There are many reasons. One, there has been a significant campaign by the polluters against action, and they’ve spent huge amounts of money to dissuade the public from believing that everything from climate change is real to [whether] we should do anything.  [Hey Carol:  How, specifically, was that alleged money allegedly spent?  And in the picture accompanying this article, why is there a planet-killing bottle of water about a foot from your elbow?]  That’s the primary reason, I think.