US Senate panel passes bill to limit greenhouse gases
(NY Times) A US Senate committee approved a broad bill on 6 December 2007 to address climate change, a major step toward passage of a measure that would for the first time slow and then reverse emissions of the gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet.
6 December 2007 A US Senate committee approved a broad bill on 6 December 2007 to address climate change, a major step toward passage of a measure that would for the first time slow and then reverse emissions of the gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet.
The Environment and Public Works Committee split largely along party lines on the bill, which calls for a roughly 70 percent cut from 2005 levels by 2050 in the production of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering pollutants.
