Article by Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin
Gallagher, Megan Ceronsky and Tomás
Carbonell
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Commentary
Legislators introduced a number of climate-related bills in
the past week. However, the climate change legislative season
really begins on March 31. On that day, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA)
– Chairman of the Energy & Environment Subcommittee
of the House Energy & Commerce Committee – will
release his draft cap-and-trade bill. Chairman Markey and full
committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) have been laying groundwork
for release of the draft through meetings with their relatively
more centrist brethren on the Committee. The outreach process
already has yielded a letter to President Obama co-signed by
Waxman, Markey, and past Chairmen John Dingell (D-MI) and Rick
Boucher (D-VA). The letter encourages the President to enact
legislation this year; but the
