(CBSNews.com) — Washington’s special climate envoy conceded Monday the U.S. may not have a climate and energy bill in place when the next major global warming conference is held in Mexico late this year, but insisted the legislation is not crucial to those talks. Efforts to pass the long-stalled bill hit another setback this month when its only Republican sponsor, Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, withdrew his support. “I hope to get it this year. If we don’t get it this year, we’ll keep pressing to get it next year,” Todd Stern, President Obama’s climate envoy, told reporters during a visit to Mexico.
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