"We cannot be so busy that we cannot address comprehensive energy and climate legislation, " he said.
And the lack of climate legislation meant there was no price on carbon, which would have favoured nuclear power.
President Obama called for a bipartisan energy and climate legislation to create incentives that will make clean energy profitable.
That's why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation, and why this legislation has drawn support from across the ideological spectrum.
But the realities of governing meant the president had essentially to choose between healthcare reform and his climate legislation - he went with healthcare.
The Senate is considering clean-energy and climate legislation that would put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and cut carbon emissions.
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The Obama Administration has failed to pass any meaningful climate legislation.
But Republicans still have the power to block climate legislation in the Senate, especially with some Democrats from coal and industrial states also ambivalent about cap-and-trade.
In the debate over climate legislation in 2009 and 2010, it was conventional wisdom that a price on carbon was the sine qua non of effective climate policy.
Sometime soon ( perhaps), Senators Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman are expected to unveil new Senate climate legislation, featuring yet another set of regulations for greenhouse gases, this time with various methods for different sectors and energy uses.
To get my support on any climate change legislation, it must include a comprehensive preemption provision that goes well beyond language included in previous climate bills.
Barbara Boxer to introduce comprehensive climate change legislation, which will include a carbon tax.
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The Senate is in the process of moving forward on clean energy and climate change legislation.
"We mustn't hurry, " says Schneider National's president and chief executive, Chris Lofgren, of the climate change legislation.
And that will ultimately determine just how palatable climate change legislation really is.
What is the timetable you all are thinking of for climate change legislation?
The House, meanwhile, is working on its own climate change legislation and is likely to hold hearings later this month on a different approach: a carbon tax.
But climate change legislation died in Congress, Republicans gained a majority in the House, and pocketbook issues like the price of gasoline began dominating public discussion.
Members of Congress know that climate change legislation doesn't offer tangible benefits to voters, so they're unlikely to act unless they feel pressure from activists in their districts.
Our bet for major energy and climate change legislation: 2009.
Reforestation efforst in IndonesiaCap-and-trade and similar climate change legislation could not get through the U.S. Congress for the simple reason that their potential benefits were outweighed by their significant economic costs.
This fall the House is scheduled to take up climate change legislation, and he says that he's willing to try to fit the renewable energy standard into that measure if necessary.
Several experts have said that 2007 is a litmus-test year for energy and climate change legislation, meaning that real overhaul would come after the 2008 elections in the event that Democrats win both the White House and Congress.
Environment spokesperson for Scottish Labour, Sarah Boyack said she, like the minister, was proud of Scotland's stong climate change legislation but added that with the recession and "tiny targets" of 0.5 per cent reductions in carbon emisssions for this year and of 0.3 per cent next year, she said the government would struggle.
On climate change, the heavy negotiations for the United Nations and the EU have now become somewhat more publicly vocal in their criticism of the administration in their interpretation it's not working hard enough to bring climate change legislation and an agreement to Copenhagen, to have something that's substantive that can be a part of the overall negotiations.
Over the past three decades Congress not only has never passed any legislation to regulate climate change, but has specifically rejected legislation to give EPA the authority which it now claims.
One aim of climate-change legislation is to reduce carbon emissions without harming the economy.
Senate Democrats' most recent attempt to break a filibuster on climate-change legislation, in June, had the support of at least 54 senators.
The one caveat for Markey today: He may not want to give up his chairmanship of an influential House committee dealing with climate-change legislation.
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