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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Consensus Nearing on Climate Legislation
Bloomberg - Democratic negotiators are reported to be close to an agreement on climate-change legislation and the measure may come to a vote on June 26.
“It is quite possible and maybe even probable we will go” to the floor with the measure at the end of this week “and complete the energy legislation,” Steny Hoyer, House Majority Leader and Maryland Democrat, told reporters in Washington today.
The American Clean Energy and Security Act would establish a market system for trading U.S. pollution permits as a way to control greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.
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Labels: climate change, global warming, u.s. energy policy
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