WASHINGTON AP – President Barack Obama is meeting with Cabinet members and key senators from both parties in a bid to move forward on a long-stalled U.S. climate and energy bill.
A bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry, a Democrat, Lindsey Graham, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman, an independent, aims to cut emissions of pollution-causing greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020. The bill would abandon a broad “cap-and-trade” approach to reducing carbon pollution. Instead it would apply different carbon controls to different sectors of the economy.
