Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has proclaimed climate legislation dead for the rest of this year (although some are suspicious about a potential lame duck session in November or December), and environmental pressure groups are blowing off steam over their political failures. But why complain? They’ve got the command-and-control system of (fossil fuel) energy regulation they wanted, thanks to the EPA’s endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act that enables it to regulate greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and others) from vehicles, utilities and industry. Sure, it’s being challenged in administrative appeals and courts, but the statist system has been approved and assembly is underway. Those invisible emissions will be policed. Nevertheless the Greens lament, as exemplified by activist Bill McKibben last week in a commentary picked up by CBSNews.com: … In late July, the U.S. Senate decided to do exactly nothing about climate change. They didn’t do less than they could have — they did