Senate climate bill tougher than House version

[jefferson_dem]

Senate climate bill tougher than House version
By H. JOSEF HEBERT and DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer H. Josef Hebert And Dina Cappiello, Associated Press Writer – 55 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Draft Senate climate change legislation would require a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020, far deeper than the reductions mandated in the House version.

The draft obtained by The Associated Press remains subject to change. But the overall carbon reduction requirements are expected to stand. The Democratic bill is to be released Wednesday by the Senate Environmental Committee with a vote by the panel likely in late October.

The draft includes an economy-wide cap and trade system that would require power plants, industrial facilities and refineries to cut carbon dioxide releases. But it does not lay out how emission allowances would be distributed, leaving that for later. The bill is viewed widely as an early focus of Senate negotiations.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_go_co/us_senate_climate_bill

[villager]

1. and sadly, even that "toughness" won't be enough...

n/t

[polichick]

2. We'll have to be all over our Congresscritters for this issue! nt

[Mass]

3. It's good news, but it has not yet been amended by the Blue Dogs.

Waxman-Markey was fairly tough when it was written. The end result was different.