Worcester Telegram: Kerry for "realistic" climate change bill

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http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/NEWS/702020435/1052

WASHINGTON— U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., reintroduced bipartisan legislation yesterday intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, which he called a major cause of climate change, to 65 percent below the 2000 levels by 2050.

Mr. Kerry joined U.S. Sen. Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, at a press conference in announcing the Global Warming Reduction Act, which they said would make more of an impact than other proposed legislation that does not include incentives such as tax breaks for businesses and individuals.

The bill comes at a time when various climate change legislation is flooding both houses of Congress, including two in the Senate this week, one proposed by U.S. Sens. John S. McCain 3rd, R-Ariz., and Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn., and the other by U.S. Sens. Barbara L. Boxer, D-Calif., and Bernard Sanders, I-Vt.

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Of his bill, Mr. Kerry said the 65 percent reduction goal is a key difference from other bills calling for more than 80 percent reduction in the same period of time.

“It’s just not realistic,” he said of the other bills. “No scientist has told me that that’s achievable.”

If passed, Mr. Kerry’s bill would require that the United States freeze emissions in 2010 and then reduce emission levels gradually through the use of clean, renewable energy sources to achieve 10- and 20-year target levels in the transportation, industrial and residential sectors.

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1. Excellent! Thanks. I added to this

thread.

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2. New JK blog post:

Fighting Global Warming

Added to the GD-P thread.

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3. Excellent! Thanks for posting. n/t