President Barack Obama must submit to Congress for review any international agreement reached at a December UN climate summit that includes binding emissions targets or timetables, the Senate Environment Committee chairman said in a letter to the White House released Nov. 18. Any agreement "with binding timetables and targets must be brought before Congress for approval," wrote Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who chairs a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee. The letter was released at a hearing Inhofe held in his committee to focus on the push by nearly 200 nations to get a United Nations climate agreement at Nov. 30-Dec. 11 talks in Paris. It is the latest salvo by Republicans in Congress who hope to undercut the administration's efforts to get a global climate accord signed at the Paris talks.
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