Avoiding Ghosts of Christmases Yet to Be

摘要

Just as when comprehensive climate change legislation reached the floor of the U.S. Senate in the fall of 2008, the U.S. House of Representative's passage of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill (officially H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act) gave hope to supporters of comprehensive federal legislation.rnThe Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 3036), introduced in May 2008, by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), made it to the floor of the Senate only to fall prey to proponents' inability to rally 60 votes to end opponents' filibuster.