Rearranging One Deck Chair on the Sinking Clean Heat Standard

Committee ignores equity concerns, potential for unintended economic consequences.

With just a few days to go before crossover (the day the Senate has to pass its bills over to the House for consideration and vice versa), the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee finally took up discussion of the glaring defects – or, well, maybe one of them -- in Act 18, the Clean Heat Standard, which they passed last year over the Governor’s v…