A Big Thaw for Climate Change

Cap-and-Trade Moving Ahead

• By Steven T. Dennis
• Roll Call Staff
• May 14, 2009, Midnight

After Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) unseated Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) atop the Energy and Commerce Committee last year, conservative Democrats worried that Waxman and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would try to ram through a politically toxic climate change bill.