A look at Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act


	A look at Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act

Lara Nieberding

3-28-2008 1:44 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c8ab4aed-b366-4de4-b69d-252e6659abff/3936E114-A607-4E87-859E-6F53757F2A4A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.csmonitor.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html"><H1 class="headline">How much will it cost to fix the climate? The numbers vary.</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html"><H2 class="sub">Even when experts look at the same data, they can come to vastly different conclusions.</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html"><ADDRESS class="byline"><STRONG>By <A href="http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=C2F2E1E4A0CBEEE9E3EBE5F2E2EFE3EBE5F2&url=/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html">Brad Knickerbocker</A></STRONG></ADDRESS></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html"><P>The proposed Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008, sponsored by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut and John
         Warner (R) of Va., would cap the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming and establish a market-based trading program
         for companies to meet the cap – a so-called cap-and-trade system. The goal is to lower emissions 63 percent below 2005 levels
         by the year 2050.
      </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html"><P>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued its economic analysis of the bill. Not surprisingly, <A href="http://www.cq.com/document/display.do?dockey=/cqonline/prod/data/docs/html/news/110/news110-000002688685.html@allnews&pub=news&print=true">supporters and opponents each found things in it to bolster their arguments</A>. <B>Congressional Quarterly</B> quotes Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of California, who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, as saying:
      </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p17s01-sten.html"><P>"Americans will pay significantly more at the pump, in their homes, and in many cases, with their jobs."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3936E114-A607-4E87-859E-6F53757F2A4A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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