The House had a test vote this morning and the climate bill narrowly got through there.
Presumably the goal is to get more votes for the bipartisan climate bill that Sen.
Carol, does this -- how does this affect your efforts to get a climate bill advanced?
In the USA, President Barack Obama abandoned last year plans for a federal climate bill during his current term.
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"Everyone knows that Exelon will support almost any climate bill and everyone knows that Southern and American Electric Power won't, " Rowe says.
The argument that a climate bill with the kind of modest targets now being considered would hurt the economy is clearly absurd.
The Senate will not pass a comprehensive climate bill any time soon.
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His advisers seem to have concluded that a climate bill was a non-starter given the parlous state of the economy, and concentrated on health care instead.
We are closer to an energy and climate bill becoming law than has ever -- we've ever gotten with the passage of it through the House of Representatives.
One Democrat, one Republican and one independent (senators John, Lindsey and Joe) have been busily writing a new energy and climate bill taking in ideas from both sides of the partisan aisle.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, has scrapped its efforts to push a climate bill through Congress, and is now mulling plans for the EPA to regulate CO2 emissions via the Clean Air Act.
And even if Washington never gets around to an energy or climate bill, state renewable portfolio standards and tightening federal emissions regulations are going to keep demand for renewables from falling too far.
But of course to really get this right, to really free ourselves from the grip of foreign oil, to really preserve our planet for generations to come, we need a comprehensive energy climate bill.
Surely this country could reduce CO2 emissions a little more than 7% in 10 years and meet the modest target set out in the Senate climate bill, which appears likely to be introduced next week.
The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate -- a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans -- that would achieve the same goal.
On the climate bill, is it -- I think some environmentalists are under the impression that the administration is now asking for a vote before August, and limiting any kind of cap or pricing to the electric utilities -- is that accurate?
The renewed clamoring to rush through Congress a European-style climate bill before the international climate talks convene in Denmark in December has at least temporarily shoved aside debate over whether alternative carbon control strategies, such as a carbon tax, might be a better choice both economically and environmentally.
If the American Senate were to pass a climate bill that put a significant cost on carbon, and thus provided cuts of the same size as those expected under the cap-and-trade bill which passed the House of Representatives last year, America would be widely seen as having raised the stakes with a commitment to a reduction of just under 2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
In late June, a White House-backed climate change bill passed 219-212 in the House, with virtually no Republican support.
And, of course, it wants to see any climate change bill Congress might consider be favorable to natural gas.
But does that mean until a new president signs a climate change bill?
In late June, he met with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House to discuss passing an energy and climate change bill this year.
On Tuesday the government will launch its Climate Change Bill, which puts the government's long-term goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050 into statute.
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So hot, you might say that the House is creating a special new committee to highlight the problem and senators are introducing one climate change bill after another.
Can he get the Senate to pass a slimmed-down climate change bill so he can work in a conference committee to get more of his energy priorities done?
But the administration opposes mandatory emissions targets, and there is probably not enough time to get a meaningful climate change bill to the president's desk by the end of the year.
The Kerry-Lieberman climate and energy bill, details of which will be announced today, has little chance of passing.
Over 40 of them broke ranks in the House over the climate-change bill.
Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.
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