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Warner quietly emerges as pivotal on Senate climate change legislation
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jul 25, 2007 02:42pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sen. John Warner has quietly reshaped Senate efforts to curb global warming, despite being immersed in Washington’s rancorous debate over Iraq.
The senior Virginia Republican, who holds the balance of power on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made a surprising decision last month to back controls on greenhouse gas emissions across every industrial sector.
This has added momentum to Democratic efforts to approve a climate-change bill, and given hope to advocates that Warner could help forge agreement with the dozen or so Republicans who support some form of cap on emissions.
“Warner is probably the single most important senator at this point,” said Frank O’Donnell, head of the advocacy group Clean Air Watch. “If Warner blesses it, that’s going to carry enormous weight.”
Warner’s views on climate change will be on full display Tuesday at an Environment subcommittee that will hold its final hearing on the subject before he and subcommittee Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) unveil economy-wide legislation in early August to cap emissions. Warner is also joining a bipartisan group of senators Tuesday to unveil a bill to “control the costs” of a comprehensive climate bill.
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