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Global Warming Legislation Gains ‘Formidable Senate Supporter’

-- Mike -- 06/28/2007

Encouraging news out of the Senate yesterday. As CQ Today reported:

The campaign to curb global warming gained a formidable Senate supporter Wednesday, as Virginia Republican John W. Warner said he will help write legislation to mandate limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the article, Warner, who is the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works panel with jurisdiction over global warming, will work Sen. Joe Lieberman, the committee chairman, to draft a bill to cap emissions and allow polluters to trade credits.

It remains to be see what their legislation will entail, but it is undoubtedly a positive development.