This is interesting. According to Greenwire, “The early draft of the Boxer-Kerry bill heeds environmentalists’ requests by removing a section of the House bill that would have restricted EPA’s ability to enact climate change regulations.”

Huh. I recall Sen. Boxer saying, at an Earth Day panel and in other contexts, that industry would be much better off to have a bill from Congress than to have EPA write CO2 regulations. That was her way of saying, nice place you got here . . . now, we can do things the hard way, or the really hard way. Now it looks like she wants both.

So it is that another California-Massachusetts axis has reinserted that which dropped out of the House bill — EPA’s license to go after you all, what senior House Democrat John Dingell (MI) call the “glorious mess”.

Most important, however, is how this puts the lie to the very similar claim being pushed, e.g., by the Edison Electric Institute on resistant member utilities: Better roll on a deal on the Hill (the deal cut by EEI in the House, which you will notice has not survived in the Senate bill, which simply re-opened the bidding for companies and sectors to sell their support).

“Certainty” remains a myth. Peace ain’t for sale. Fight, and fight to win. Or you lose.