Climate change bills advance in Senate

摘要

In December Senate committees approved four bills dealing with climate change, including a bill designed to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change and a bill aimed at adapting to climate change. On December 5, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-8 in favor of the America's Climate Security Act (S. 2191), a bill cosponsored by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) that establishes a cap-and-trade system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Warner was the lone Republican to support the bill.