A 1000 or 1300 page Climate Bill not even off the copier is bad government, but at least we have a first step Climate Bill in progress. In the last month I had begun to sour on the Climate bill due to its length and not being able to get adequate assessment of the details and deals included in the bill. I certainly didn’t have the time and wouldn’t read the over 1000 pages of the usual legal language our government speaks. My husband, a not so active climate change action supporter, took me to task saying that all of us have fooled around with climate change action for years and have not done anything. Whatever this bill does, it is better than doing nothing and doesn’t preclude us from doing more as soon as we muster the political will to do more. He got me. (more…)
