June 26, 2009 18:00
Climate legislation has a long way to go before becoming federal law, but Congress took a major step in enacting the nation’s first global warming bill now that the House of Representatives narrowly passed the measure on a 219-212 vote on Friday. The American Clean Energy and Security Act cleared the House and the initiative is now in the hands of the Senate. Nicknamed the “Waxman-Markey” bill named after its sponsors, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Edward J. Markey, Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global ...
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