Climate change bill heads for full Senate

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http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN058916420071206

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation aimed at fighting climate change by capping greenhouse gas emissions was approved on Wednesday by a Senate committee and is headed for debate in the full Senate.

Sen. John Warner, a Virginia Republican and the bill's co-sponsor, acknowledged he is a "convert" to climate change and pushed for quick action on the measure, which sets up a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions.

"The United States simply has to take a leadership role," Warner told the committee. "We are the superpower in the world and we've got to utilize our status to try and help correct a situation I think all of us acknowledge is causing hardships ... that are really without precedent.

"If we don't act, China and India will simply hide behind America's skirts of inaction."

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