The need to deal with health care, financial regulations, and a skyrocketing deficit could postpone a full
debate on climate legislation until the summer, when almost everyone figures it would be too late.
While insiders expect Congress to be dormant
on climate legislation for the two years leading up to the presidential election, nobody knows exactly what will transpire.
A bipartisan energy policy group called today for
action on climate legislation and laid out principles for such a measure, including views that collide with the leading House climate and energy measure.
GOP Willfully Distorts Research on Climate Legislation
The new rankings used a methodology developed by the US - based Union of Concerned Scientists to measure corporate
positions on climate legislation against criteria such as transparency, company performance and lobby interventions.
«Yes I do [think George Bush has been a good
leader on climate legislation] because I think he has tried to let the science evolve, tried to encourage the technology, tried to incorporate a global dialog around this issue.»
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In the present congressional term, Rogers said, «there is a low probability that anything happens»
on climate legislation or even on the Clean Energy Standard (CES) proposed by the Obama Administration, and he added, that «might well be true of the next TWO sessions.»