Congress Debates Global Warming Policy.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, May, 2001

Partisan differences arise on how best to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS agree that action is needed to combat global climate change, but lawmakers differ widely on how to go about solving the problem. At a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, Sen.

Harry Reid (D-Nev.) urged his colleagues to support mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. "I understand that some of my colleagues have been put in a difficult position by the President's decision not to seek reductions of carbon dioxide from power plants and to walk away from the Kyoto agreement," said Sen. Reid, the committee's ranking Democrat. President George W. Bush has been getting "bad advice," he said....

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