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"If you don't pass this legislation, then ... the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area," the official said. "And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it's going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty."

Amazing, the EPA attempting to dictate to Congress what legislation it "has" to pass. The EPA cannot do this on its own without additional Congressional authorization. The EPA cannot do this by fiat, and still has to jump through the long-established regulatory process hoops in order to try to accomplish this. At some point, it will be stymied. If they try to do it anyway, there will be federal lawsuits out their wazoo and the Congress will simply fail to fund the agency in the wake of public outcry. I have a feeling that someone in the BO administration knows this is an over-reach, and is allowing it on purpose, in order to be able to "negotiate" something else entirely.