Lobbying Intensifies as Senate Gets Close to a Vote on Climate Change

[mom cat]

Lobbying Intensifies as Senate Gets Close to a Vote on Climate Change

By H. Josef Hebert Associated Press Writer
Published: Jun 20, 2005


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB4MFV97AE.html



WASHINGTON (ap) - Industry groups and environmentalists lobbied hard to sway lawmakers' votes Monday as the Senate prepared for a major challenge to President Bush's global warming policy.
The Senate was set to consider two proposals as part of a broad energy bill this week that would, for the first time, call for mandatory limits on industry's release of heat-trapping gases that many climate scientists believe are warming the earth.

The Bush administration has argued strongly against mandatory climate-related emissions caps, contending that its voluntary program is reeling in the growth of so-called "greenhouse" emissions, if not actually reducing the tons annually being released into the atmosphere.

Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., met with other Republican senators Monday to gauge support for a compromise provision, offered by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. The compromise would require the growth of heat-trapping pollution be reduced by 2.4 percent annually between 2010 and 2020, with emissions beginning to decline after that.

[phantom power]

1. It's no longer "many" and "believe"

It's pretty much all of them, and the data is now clear. If the environmental lobbyists can do just one thing, I hope they can move us past this "many" and "believe" b.s.

[KansDem]

2. With the Bushistas track record for falsifying scientific reports...

The Bush administration has argued strongly* against mandatory climate-related emissions caps, contending that its voluntary program is reeling in the growth of so-called "greenhouse" emissions, if not actually reducing the tons annually being released into the atmosphere.

...who really believes this bullshit?

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And what exactly does "has argued strongly" mean?

[phantom power]

3. It must be a mis-print. They meant "edited strongly"

[KansDem]

4. LOL!!! Excellent observation!

At least they got the tense right!

[lovuian]

5. I think 2.4 % in 2010 is a freakin JOKE!!!

Somebody needs to get a BRAIN the Senate and Bush included!!!

[mom cat]

6. It is an insult, not a joke!

[mbperrin]

7. Seems silly for the Senate to vote, but I say vote NO CLIMATE

CHANGE!

I don't want a climate change, for any reason. But if we could do something about the pesky law of gravity, I'd be for that!

Sorry, just feeling silly tonight....

[Salluc]

8. It's the penguins

If they just didn't breath so hard, the Antarctic ice wouldn't be melting. Darn birds.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Oh for Christ sakes!!!!

What fu**in good is all these a**holes money with the climate overheating? Do they think the earth is going to be a tropical paradise?