So, the “check back” in S.5 isn’t really a check back.

House committee clarifies it’s a (very limited) “throttle down.”

It looked like the Clean Heat Standard bill, S.5, was going down to potential veto defeat in the Senate after massive public backlash over the estimated cost the program would have on home heating fuels. Then the Senate Appropriations Committee amended the bill with what they called a “check back” clause, by which – so they claimed – all the research wo…