Regulation and the Environment

摘要

Suddenly-courtesy of a liberal senator from Massachusetts and a conservative Republican from South Carolina-what is being dubbed a potential "game changer" has surfaced, giving the US Senate a "real shot" at passing a climate bill prior to December's UN conference in Copenhagen. "It's hard to overstate the significance of this," Dan Lashoff, director of the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Center, said in a blog. Manik Roy, vice president, federal government outreach, at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change said in his blog that it is "the strongest ray of bipartisan hope we've seen on the climate issue this year."