Cap and trade appears headed toward Wednesday D-Day

Cap and trade is set for a committee meeting Monday morning that could be prelude to passage in the full Senate — or chaos at the Capitol. The Joint Ways and Means Committee will take up Senate Bill 1530 at a 9 a.m. hearing, with Sen. Betsy Johnson presiding. Johnson is a rare Democrat who opposes the market-based greenhouse gas reduction program, but the committee, with a 13-8 Democratic advantage, is expected to pass the bill and send it to the full Senate. The bill’s chief author, Sen.…