Which is perhaps why Mrs Lincoln, though no climate-change denier, is less than thrilled by the Waxman-Markey bill.
In America President Barack Obama is committed and the House of Representatives has passed the Waxman-Markey bill to curb emissions.
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The United States House of Representatives recently passed the Waxman-Markey Bill, setting an emissions reduction target and introducing a cap and trade scheme.
But many senators do not much like the Waxman-Markey bill either, and it is unlikely to be passed before the summit, if at all.
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Media reports indicate that you may frame climate change as a national security issue to prod Congress into passing cap-and-trade legislation, like the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House last June.
The Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House on Friday by a 219-212 margin will punitively tax energy sources that contribute 90% of current U.S. electricity (or 71% if you want to leave out nuclear).
In both the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the U.S. House, and the Senate bill that will be introduced tomorrow, offsets play a central role in containing costs, and therefore reducing policy impact on decarbonization.
And in the longer run carbon prices will rise under Waxman-Markey, as the House bill is known.
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The only time Congress even considered imposing GHG performance standards on power plants was during the debate on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill.
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Nor were the authors of their failed cap-and-trade bill, Henry Waxman or Ed Markey.
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"We're challenging Waxman-Markey's cap-and-trade bill, not the need for a legislative response to climate change, " says Karen Harbert, head of the Chamber's Institute for 21st Century Energy.
The attorney is also looking to Congress, where Representative Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has sponsored a bill to clarify that the OPA doesn't preclude state suits over oil spills.
The bill's sponsors, Henry Waxman and Edward Markey, come from wealthy, densely populated Beverly Hills and Boston.
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, a Queens Democrat who has spent years championing a bill that would eliminate New York's statute of limitations, said she would be amending her bill, or write a supplementary bill, to close the mandatory reporting loopholes.
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As for energy, the Senate legislation bears little resemblance to the cap-and-trade bill steered through the House last year by Henry Waxman and Edward Markey.
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