Senate climate vote puts heat on administration

[deadparrot]

Blech. McCain whoring again.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A simmering conflict between U.S. lawmakers and the Bush administration over global climate change could boil over in the coming week when the Senate debates legislation that would require U.S. industry to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases.

President Bush has rebuffed pleas from world leaders, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, to take mandatory action to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, which are blamed for rising temperatures.

But three different Senate approaches to address the issue could be offered as early as Monday as amendments to pending energy legislation. The Senate debate comes two weeks before the Group of Eight industrialized nations meets in Scotland, where Blair hopes to hatch an action plan for rich nations to fight global warming.

The most sweeping option is from Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) and Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record), who are applying pressure with a plan that would set a mandatory cap on U.S. carbon emissions.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_congress_climate_dc

[slor]

1. The chimp's position on Global Warming...

makes me think that Blair may have played a role in the DSM leak. At least in the leaks that followed the original.

[Mass]

2. Problem is that McCain-Lieberman is full of pork for nuclear industries