New greenhouse leader

Chris Dodd's new plan--which adopts the terms of the Sanders-Boxer cap-and-trade plan and slaps a carbon tax on top of it--is the boldest plan yet introduced by a member of the government or presidential candidate (or, in the case of Dodd, both). I wonder if he'll introduce a bill into the Senate based on this plan, or if it's just a campaign platform. Either way, I suppose it will expand the acceptable terms of the issue a bit. And in that way it's helpful. 

Note that his is a 15-point plan. This fact alone--that he didn't arbitrarily make it a 10-point plan for the sake of advancing or bowing before the hegemony of the decimal system--is pretty much evidence of its seriousness.