News Source: CNN
| 19 days ago
A Senate committee Thursday approved a major climate change bill despite a boycott by all of the panel's seven Republican members. Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 10-1 to send the measure to the full chamber.
News Source: Seattle Times
| 19 days ago
P Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage. Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out...
News Source: Politico
| 19 days ago
South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham – the Democrats’ best shot at a Republican vote for climate-change legislation – says he would have voted against the bill that passed out of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Environment and Public Works Committee...
News Source: The Guardian
| 19 days ago
Barbara Boxer, chairman of the environment and public works committee, defied a Republican boycott to vote through a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20% over 2005 levels by 2020. Such a law is seen as vital for the ultimate success...
News Source: International Business Times
| 19 days ago
A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen. Democrats on the Senate Environment and...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 19 days ago
by Jim Tankersley Democrats on a key Senate committee bypassed a Republican boycott and this morning approved a sweeping plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions, a move meant to reassure other nations as the world prepares for global warming treaty...