Kerry: We’re Sending Climate Bill to EPA for Analysis

[babylonsister]

http://washingtonindependent.com/83286/kerry-were-sending-climate-bill-to-epa-for-analysis

Kerry: We’re Sending Climate Bill to EPA for Analysis
By Aaron Wiener 4/27/10 3:14 PM


Despite Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) recent withdrawal from the climate legislation process, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is telling reporters that the Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin analyzing the economic impact of the climate bill he and Graham helped craft.

“We are sending the bill to be modeled now with Lindsey Graham’s consent,” the Democratic senator told reporters. <...>

The EPA analysis of their bill could take more than a month to complete and legislation could not be queued up for a full Senate debate until the results are disseminated.

That would put the climate bill on the Senate floor in June at the earliest, but more likely in July. But that assumes that political divisions, of which there are many in addition to Graham’s concerns, get resolved.

[wisteria]

1. Good to read the bill is not stagnant. n/t

[karynnj]

2. Thanks -

It is good that this is happening. The various models take weeks to do - so it is good that this, at least, is happening. If the political problems are resolved, little time would be lost.