Senators face off on greenhouse gas emissions
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Dozens of senators -- including  leading 2008 presidential contenders from both major parties --  met on Tuesday to swap proposals that could spur the country's  first-ever mandatory caps on greenhouse gases.
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Democratic leaders anticipated a close vote as the Senate prepared to consider an energy bill that supporters say will mark a new direction and move the country away from gas-guzzling cars and toward greater reliance on nonfossil fuels.
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Pivotal environmental battles of second Bush term may hinge on quest for more energy, and for cleaner skies.
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Senators from both parties tee off on the White House as evidence mounts indicating it suppressed evidence of climate change. Luke O'Brien reports from Washington.
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Senate Democrats lashed out at the three leading U.S. auto executives yesterday for fighting legislation to force improvements in vehicle gas mileage, warning that lawmakers are losing patience with the industry.
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House Democrats, emboldened to act on global warming, intend to push automakers at a hearing next week to accept higher fuel-economy standards.
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A breakthrough on the climate change deadlock is being sought at a meeting between US politicians and international legislators.
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MOSCOWâAfter years of delay, the Canadian government will soon have to come up with a concrete plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions following yesterday&#39;s approval of the Kyoto Protocol by Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament.
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Hopes of concrete US commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. are hit
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By GERARD SHIELDS  WASHINGTON - Environmental groups are praising a new Senate bill they claim would remove the potential for politics and mismanagement from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, though Louisiana's two senators have expressed concerns about the measure.  U.S. Sen.
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While the major presidential candidates agree global warming is real, the Republicans are sharply divided over what to do about it Â even as they chase votes in Florida, where the predicted risk of rising sea waters and more severe storms is anything but a passing concern.
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Friday she wanted Congress to pass mandatory caps on heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions this year.
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The Senate has begun debating a sprawling energy bill that has already kicked off an epic lobbying war.
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The Senate on Monday pressed ahead  with a Democrat-driven rewrite of American energy policy that  would strip nearly $15 billion in tax breaks from large  companies and put the money toward making energy from clean,  renewable sources like wind, solar and soybeans.
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By The Dallas Morning News  May 24--State lawmakers have run hot and cold when it comes to environmental legislation this year.   The session began with a flurry of activity and a foot-high stack of proposals aimed at improving air quality.
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WASHINGTON -- Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone.
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This week's Senate battle over the energy bill heralds a longer fight on climate change, some analysts say.