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businessgreen.com - 27 days ago
US puts climate debate on hold for five weeks despite plea by Merkel
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Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian - Published under license by, BusinessGreen , Wednesday 4 November 2009 at 10:07:00 Senate delay means no bill likely before Copenhagen International negotiators lost one of the key elements to a successful deal on global warming today after Democratic leaders in the US Congress ruled out passing a climate change law...
guardian.co.uk - 29 days ago
US puts climate debate on hold for five weeks despite plea by Merkel
— guardian.co.uk — • Senate delay means no bill likely before Copenhagen • German leader makes historic Congress address International... negotiators lost one of the key elements to a successful deal on global warming today after Democratic leaders in the US Congress ... (more) US puts climate debate on hold for five weeks despite ...

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Ecoearth.info Blog — ... and the one Senator to vote against the bill making the final split 11-1, issued a statement saying he was concerned about the scale of the 20 per cent emission reduction target included in the legislation. Although he added that he would continue to "work to get climate change legislation that can get 60 votes, get through the US Senate and signed into law". In addition, there were reports that Boxer had defied the advice of Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who earlier this week attempted to appease Republicans by ordering the EPA to undertake a full analysis of the bill. ...

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