Environmentalists praise Waxman bill.(News)
Waste News, April, 2007
Byline: Bruce Geiselman Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., has introduced legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that has won the endorsement of several environmental groups. Waxman's Safe Climate Act of 2007 adopts the most aggressive targets among climate change proposals under consideration in Congress.
"The Waxman bill is the standard by which other Congressional proposals should be judged,'' said Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust. "It sets the emissions reduction targets scientists are virtually unanimous in saying the U.S. and the world must meet to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming.'' Betsy Loyless, senior vice president of the National Audubon Society, called Waxman's bill "the...
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