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After 2011…
It’s not good news that Barak Obama turned climate legislation over to Congress to produce, slotting it behind health care on his list of antecedences. Since he’d just spent some time in the Senate, Barak Obama should have been able to predict what would happen. The already none-too-strong Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer bills have been laden with ever more gifts to ever more special interests and ever more loopholes to undermine their targets. And now the Senate legislation has apparently been handed to Lieberman-Graham for some more tweaking, an exercise that seems unlikely to end well.
Dan Farber has written and taught on environmental and constitutional law as well as about contracts, jurisprudence and legislation. Currently at Berkeley Law, he has al…
Dan Farber has written and taught on environmental and constitutional law as well as about contracts, jurisprudence and legislation. Currently at Berkeley Law, he has al…
After 2011…
It’s not good news that Barak Obama turned climate legislation over to Congress to produce, slotting it behind health care on his list of antecedences. Since he’d just spent some time in the Senate, Barak Obama should have been able to predict what would happen. The already none-too-strong Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer bills have been laden with ever more gifts to ever more special interests and ever more loopholes to undermine their targets. And now the Senate legislation has apparently been handed to Lieberman-Graham for some more tweaking, an exercise that seems unlikely to end well.