News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 month ago
Senate environment committee approved a Democratic climate change bill Thursday that would require industry to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels. The bill approved by the Environment and...
News Source: The Hill
| about 1 month ago
Democrats voted 11-1 to approve the bill, with Sen. Max Baucus of Montana the only "no" vote. Republicans protested the markup, which delayed a vote for two days. They wanted the Environmental Protection Agency to perform a more thorough cost...
News Source: The Orange County Register
| about 1 month ago
No Republicans were at Boxer's panel to vote on climate bill. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Environment and Public Works Committee decided 10-1 to send her and Sen. John Kerry’s global warming bill to the full Senate despite not one Republican member...
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| about 1 month ago
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted this morning to move a climate change bill, using a rare procedural move to overcome a Republican boycott. The committee did not amend the bill, authored by EPW Chair Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.,...
News Source: The Examiner
| about 1 month ago
Ignoring a Republican boycott, Senate Democrats and pushed a precedent-setting climate bill through a key committee Thursday. Of the 11 Democrats present at the vote, only one - Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. - voted against the legislation, saying that...
News Source: Politico
| about 1 month ago
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved climate-change legislation Thursday with no Republicans voting for the bill or even participating in the process. With Republican boycotting the proceedings, Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer...