The newly passed House climate-change bill has not had an easy run, from it’s inception it’s been attacked and modified, and it was with a narrow victory of seven votes that it managed to pass on June 26. Yet the most challenging times may still lay ahead for a bill that environmentalists have both praised as a necessary step in revamping American’s approach to global warming and criticized for being too weak. When the bill reaches the Senate (possibly as early as September or October) it will likely need 60 votes to be passed and it’s there that it may be jointly rejected by Senate members for being too aggressive and by environmentalist groups for being too lax. Click here to read more

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