Will the energy bill make it?

Submitted by Michael on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 15:38

In an unusual fit of negativity, I opined recently that "they" would probably screw up the Waxman/Markey energy bill, and it appears to be struggling, either because I was right or because I contributed some bad juju to it.

Joe Romm, over at Climate Progress, says that not only does Harry Reid continue to throw water on the hopes for an energy bill in the Senate this year, "the bigger question now is — can the House even pass its big energy and climate bill before the August break"? Quoting Greenwire, he goes on to say "there is not much evidence Waxman-Markey has got the votes to make it out of the *sub*committee yet."

Romm says the counterbalancing news is that energy remains an Obama priority, and that as he presses for action, he will get it. My full reading of his post doesn't reach the same conclusion, but I hope he's right.

Speaking at Commonwealth Club

I will be speaking on the topic of food addiction at the Commonwealth Club of California, the oldest public affairs forum in the country, on Feb. 28. I'll be joining a fabulous panel of researchers and clinicians: Nicole Avena of Princeton and the University of Florida, Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute, Vera Tarman of Renascent Center of Toronto, abd Elissa Epel and Andrea Garber, both of the University of California at San Francisco. I am very excited to be part of the roster, not to mention to be appearing at such a great institution. Ticket information here; if you come, please stay afterward to say hello.

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