Reuters: U.S. federal climate legislation may still pass this year even though a Republican who opposes the bill won a seat in the Senate this week, a carbon markets executive said on Thursday. “Our view is that it’s not dead,” Abyd Karmali, managing director and global head of carbon emissions at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, told Reuters in an interview. A climate bill passed the House last year, but the legislation has been bogged down in the Senate and its future is uncertain after …