FEINSTEIN CLIMATE BILL SEEKS MIDPOINT AMONG OTHER SENATE PROPOSALS

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has floated draft climate change legislation that appears to seek out a political middle ground between the climate bill proposed by Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), and a less stringent draft proposal by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM). At the same time, Feinstein appears to be trying to gain support from the agriculture sector by providing broad opportunities to earn greenhouse gas emissions credits for numerous agricultural practices that store carbon in soil or...