Article by Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin
Gallagher, Megan Ceronsky, Tomás Carbonell, Harold Bulger
and Van Smith
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Commentary
In last Tuesday's meeting with a bipartisan collection
of Senators, President Obama pushed for legislation with a carbon
price, but did not endorse any particular bill or design . . .
Republican Senators Alexander and Murkowski (previous supporters of
legislation with a carbon price) stood firmly against an emissions
cap. Senator Snowe, on the other hand, called for a
utility-sector-only cap-and-trade program . . . Senator Bingaman
announced he had a draft for such a bill under construction
– but expressed doubt about its chances for success this
year. Will we see a Bingaman-Snowe bill? . . . EPA will reconsider
how GHG emissions from biomass are treated for purposes of the
"tailored" Prevention of Significant
