If David Bookbinder, the Sierra Club’s top lawyer, believed the Waxman-Markey bill making its way through Congress was going to become law, he would be losing a lot of sleep. ‘But let me tell you, I’ve been sleeping 10 hours a night since I got here,’ Bookbinder quipped Thursday at the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court Conference in Monterey. He and four lawyers discussed a slew of possible law enforcement aspects of climate change legislation at the annual gathering of federal judges and court officials from the Western United States. ‘This is the most complex piece of legislation in the history of our country, which may make it the most complex piece of legislation in human history,’ Bookbinder said. The Waxman-Markey bill, a cap-and-trade plan to reduce global warming and to promote energy efficiency and renewability, is also known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act. It passed the House of Representatives in June and will likely come before the U.S. Senate after its August recess. If the bill dies in the Senate, Bookbinder said, it will be the third cap-and-trade bill to meet its end there. But if Waxman-Markey or a similar […]