K-L

Besides being bipartisan, it reduces emissions, gives most of the permit auction revenues back to consumers, invests the rest in clean technologies, and lacks the free allocations, subsidies, and offsets to coal, oil, and nuclear contained in K-L.

Mike Sandler: K-L Climate Bill Victimized By "Stall, Water-Down and Ditch" Mike Sandler 2010

Indefensibly, K-L promotes offshore oil drilling, while also providing some limitations on the promotion.

Mike Sandler: A Climate Bill to Punish BP and Benefit America Mike Sandler 2010

The CLEAR Act is gaining support every day, but it still may take an unpredictable "Black swan" event to shift public opinion and that Beltway groupthink away from K-L.

Mike Sandler: K-L Climate Bill Victimized By "Stall, Water-Down and Ditch" 2010

The Kerry-Lieberman (K-L) climate bill is known as The American Power Act, but a more appropriate name might be The American Power (Brokers) Act.

Mike Sandler: A Climate Bill to Punish BP and Benefit America Mike Sandler 2010

Besides being bipartisan, it reduces emissions, gives most of the permit auction revenues back to consumers, invests the rest in clean technologies, and lacks the free allocations, subsidies, and offsets to coal, oil, and nuclear contained in K-L.

Mike Sandler: K-L Climate Bill Victimized By "Stall, Water-Down and Ditch" 2010

Beltway insiders who considered K-L to be the only "real" climate bill proudly cited the support of Graham and Lieberman.

Mike Sandler: K-L Climate Bill Victimized By "Stall, Water-Down and Ditch" 2010

Indefensibly, K-L promotes offshore oil drilling, while also providing some limitations on the promotion.

Mike Sandler: A Climate Bill to Punish BP and Benefit America 2010

The Kerry-Lieberman (K-L) climate bill is known as The American Power Act, but a more appropriate name might be The American Power (Brokers) Act. It is loaded with giveaways to utilities and "clean coal" orchestrated by "the smooth-talking King of Coal" Jim Rogers of Duke Energy and others.

Mike Sandler: A Climate Bill to Punish BP and Benefit America 2010

But because it is not loaded down with 987 pages of special interest handouts, it is dismissed by Beltway insiders as a runner-up to K-L.

Mike Sandler: A Climate Bill to Punish BP and Benefit America 2010

Considering that K-L lacks any known Republican support, is it still the only "real" climate bill?

Mike Sandler: K-L Climate Bill Victimized By "Stall, Water-Down and Ditch" 2010