Weekly Climate Change Policy Update - June 28, 2010

Article by Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin Gallagher, Megan Ceronsky, Tomás Carbonell, Harold Bulger and Van Smith

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Commentary

At a "revival"-like meeting of the caucus, Senate Democrats talked about a legislative strategy of linking climate provisions to presumably popular oil spill provisions, thereby creating a more difficult-to-oppose package . . . The gathering also discussed the idea of assigning a group of 10 or so Senators the role of deciding what goes into the package . . . The upcoming Tuesday morning meeting in the White House between the President and a bipartisan group of Senators may yield further details on a path forward . . . There is continued talk about a utility-sector-only cap-and-trade program . . . An initiative to suspend California's A.B. 32 program obtained sufficient signatures to go on to the November ballot . . . The