(global warming news) Both Sides Gird for Bruising Senate Debate Over EPA Amendment - New York Times

But the simple fact that the Senate could be forced into a challenging vote over climate change so soon into the new year means a full-blown whip operation is under way among environmentalists and their allies on Capitol Hill. Prospects for that bill are in flux amid growing doubt that there are 60 Senate votes to pass such a sweeping new environmental initiative at the same time lawmakers work on other controversial Obama administration priorities, all the while campaigning for midterm elections in November. Senate sponsors are pledging to work hard over the next few months to produce a compromise energy and climate package capable of winning 60 votes, but the choreography of being tested too soon on the EPA climate rules has many worried it could complicate their delicate task of building bipartisan coalitions. Indeed, Murkowski aides have already starting reaching out to several of the moderate and conservative Senate Democrats who are seen as pivotal votes for the broader push to pass a climate and energy bill.

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