Senate Climate Task News Today

Summit. And for the French Foreign minister for presiding with patience. I want to give a special thanks to secretary john kerry, my senior adviser, our chief negotiator, and everyone on their teams for their outstanding work and for making america proud. I also want to thank the people of nearly 200 nations, large and small. Developed and developing, for working together to confront a threat to people of all nations. Together we have shown what is possible when the world stands as one. Can behe...

Thank you, madam chair. On want to get gavelled on. Well, you have 28 more seconds if you wish to continue. No. I will get some credit out of you. Oh, need your credit, thats true. Now were going to complete this first panel, which started a very long time ago, seems like yesterday. And were going to do it this way. Im going to give senator whitehouse take my two minutes. Senator vitter okay . Senate inhoff, senator sessions and then ill close. Everybody has two more minutes, okay . So lets star...

Allow emitters of that pollution to trade credits and decide for themselves what costs that point source polluters are willing to pay for the ability to send Carbon Dioxide into the air. Weve heard over and over the Horror Stories coming from our friends on the republican side. As a member of the Energy Committee in the house of representatives when we debated the waxmanmarkey bill i heard it over and over again. They told us that electricity prices were going to dramatically spike and that yes,...

The bill would require that transmission plans prioritize lower prices for customers, decarbonization goals, severe weather scenarios and resiliency of the grid.