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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Saturday said he does not have enough support now to move a renewable electricity production mandate promoting sources like solar and geothermal that are important businesses in his state.
 
“I don’t think I have 60 votes to get that done,” Reid said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas.
 
Reid’s assessment is a further disappointment to green groups still stinging from his decision to shelve a broader climate and energy strategy that would install a first-time carbon-pricing plan for power plants and that also is short of the needed filibuster-proof margin.

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