  We investigate transport through an exotic ``charge'' qubit composed of two
strongly capacitively coupled quantum dots (QDs), each being independently
connected to a side gate which in general exhibits a fluctuating electrostatic
field ({\em i.e.}, Nyquist/Johnson noise). Two quantum phases are found: the
``Kondo'' phase where an orbital-Kondo entanglement emerges and a ``local
moment'' phase in which the noise destroys the Kondo effect leaving the orbital
spin unscreened and resulting in a clear suppression of the conductance. In the
Kondo realm, the transfer of charge across the setting is accompanied by
zero-point charge fluctuations in the two dissipative environments and then the
I-V characteristics are governed by what we call ``dissipative cotunneling''.
