Thursday is sponsored by the Senate expected a resolution by Senator Lisa Murkowski (voting strength R-AL), that EPA should wait a year before the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under Clean Air Act.
Some see this vote as an indication of great support to the leader of the majority in the Senate, Harry Reid for the passage of the CAP and trade legislation this year. Last year, the House passed legislation that would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and establish an emissions trading scheme.
I do not think he was elected to cap and trade, and I know that Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), told reporters Tuesday.
Grassley is one of 41 co-sponsored the resolution supporting Murkowski regret supporting conservative Republicans, including Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas.
Agriculture uses a lot of energy, so that the maximum carbon, farmers and rural communities severely affected, said Grassley.
Grassley argued that Congress never intended the Act respecting the air quality of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide or methane. EPA is under a Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the law says.
Laura Sands Agricultural Carbon Market Working Group, said that even if the Senate approves the resolution Murkowski, it is unlikely that Parliament will adopt its own rules, and even less likely that President Obama will sign it.
I do not think it would be a legislative proposal that has broad support, said Sands Agriculture.com Tuesday. Your group that includes farmers who are active in several groups is because the case was the CAP and trade legislation, much better for agriculture, because farmers could benefit by being able to sell credits carbon dioxide, but if the EPA is the only beneficiaries of carbon controls could not.
The Ag-carboxyl group is not promoting the resolution Murkowski, however, and continues to focus on the law change.
If we want to create energy independence should be adopted a package of energy-climate, said Sands.
Reid is the head of the Senate, in a letter last week saying he wanted a vote on a kind of energy bill (but will not remain silent climate regulation) this summer, partly as a way to keep oil companies financially responsible for environmental damage, such as the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Current limits of the law firms, and oil of 75 million dollars.
Murkowski faces a lower resolution than most legal obstacles in the Senate, is not subject to blockage and a majority of 60 votes. The opportunity could not get the 51 votes needed some groups holding cap and trade legislation, I hope.
Because of the potential cost of EPA regulations and the cap and trade legislation, the Farm Bureau supports the resolution and reject Murkowski cap and trade , he said.
Thatcher said he believes that the oil spill in the Gulf region is public support for legislation on climate change has increased.
I think it’s all spin. I do not think there is more support than it was 50 days, he said.
Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union, is less certain.
I think golf has many people scratching their heads, said members of Congress. It creates more uncertainty about how the Senate vote on Thursday and act on climate change legislation before the November elections.
NFU has no place Resolution Murkowski, but in a climate bill, although agriculture in favor of emissions trading.
We prefer that the legislation for Congress to address climate and move on, he said.
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