Bingaman: No Comprehensive Climate Bill in Next Two Years

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who unveiled this week a stand-alone bill that would require a certain percentage of the country’s energy to come from renewable sources, said today that comprehensive climate legislation won’t be able to pass the Senate in the next two years. “I don’t see a comprehensive bill going anywhere in the next two years,” Bingaman said, according to Reuters.

At least one Republican and long-time climate skeptic, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is already delighting in Bingaman’s comments. Inhofe’s press office blasted the story to reporters today.