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- Panel Oks Climate-Change Bill Without Gop ; Pre-Summit Legislation Now Goes to Extensive Negotiation
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday passed a sweeping climate-change bill, with none of the panel's seven Republicans participating in the 11-1 vote. But the legislation, co-authored by committee Chairman Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, and fellow Democrat Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, will not go directly to the Senate floor. It will instead become a starting point for extensive negotiations among lawmakers led by Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
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Earlier this year, Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the leader of an effort to write a U.S. climate change bill, argued that domestic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would help President Obama pry similar cuts from China and other major developing nations. The failure by Mr. Obama to win binding reductions at the U.N. climate conference that ended Friday in Copenhagen means he and Mr. Kerry must persuade a skeptical Senate to pass that same bill without a global treaty. The prospects appear as daunting as ever.
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OLYMPIA - A House committee chairman put his own stamp on a Senate climate change bill Friday, keeping the measure alive but also keeping open the possibility that a new carbon dioxide- emitting coal-fired plant could be built in Kalama or elsewhere in Washington. Without committee action by a Friday deadline, the Senate bill, prime-sponsored by Sen. Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver, would have been dead for this session. The bill passed the Senate on March 10 on a 35-13 vote. The two chambers have three weeks to work out their differences.
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BOXER-KERRY BILL The bill will be modeled largely on legislation passed by the House of Representatives in June that aims to cut carbon emissions by 17 percent by 2020 and more than 80 percent by 2050 compared to 2005 levels, reported ClimateWire and other publications. WASHINGTON - Two top Senate Democrats are set to introduce a climate-change bill this week that would put new limits on carbon emissions, as world leaders prepare for a climate summit in Denmark after agreement last week by the G20 nations on phasing out subsidies for fossil fuels.
