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Energy-Only Option Tests Senate's Climate Bill Backers
Advocates for Senate climate legislation are pushing back against calls to abandon a mandatory cap on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in favor of a stand-alone energy bill.
01-12-2010
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Darren Samuelsohn - Greenwire
Major environmental groups say they would drop their support for the Capitol Hill effort if Democrats went only with an energy bill -- even if the votes were not there for their preferred approach.
"Fortunately, first of all, we have commitments from leadership all up and down the board," Jeremy Symons, senior vice president of the National Wildlife Federation, told reporters on a conference call today. He said past energy-only bills have sent "mixed signals" to the marketplace when it comes to investments in low-carbon energy technologies.
"I don't think it's a question of getting a little bit of something or nothing," Symons added. "I think it's a question of do we really believe our future is in clean energy technology, or do we believe it's in oil dependency and the polluting technologies that have gotten us there?" Read full article...