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...longer so clear. On Tuesday, the same day that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released some of its bill's language, the first outlines of the bill being drafted by the three key committee chairmen in the House - Energy and Commerce's Henry Waxman, Ways and Means' Charles Rangel and Education and Labor's George Miller - showed that while the two chambers are going along generally parallel tracks, it may well be the House that is taking the more cautious approach, at least for the moment. (You can read it here.) There are, of course, still...
...Washington Pollution and Politics On May 21, the American Clean Energy and Security Act--also known as the Waxman-Markey Bill, after its Democratic authors--passed through a House committee. If approved, the 1,000-page bill would institute the nation's first federal cap-and-trade system for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions...
Even more important is the ongoing debate in Congress over carbon cap-and-trade legislation. Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Edward Markey have hammered out a bill that would reduce U.S. carbon emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. It faces an uphill battle in Congress, opposed by nearly all Republicans and many Democrats from coal-dependent states. Pushing it through will require an act of political will, but while Obama has praised the controversial bill, some environmentalists complain the White House has done too little behind the scenes to defend it. "The world was hopeful that Obama would...
...Waxman said at a Thursday briefing that despite the higher emissions cap, negotiators were "careful to look at what scientists are saying" and that a House bill would allow Obama to "assume a leadership position" at a December international global warming meeting in Copenhagen...
...Frank O'Donnell of Clean Air Watch had more sympathy for Waxman, who, he said, was "working with a pretty bad hand. The only way he was going get something through his committee was to move to the right and make an awful lot of concessions...