WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A milestone, a landmark and “the political center of gravity is finally shifting on global warming.”
Those accolades greeted a Senate subcommittee’s approval on Thursday of a bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions, mostly because it is the first of a dozen such measures that might have a chance of becoming law.
The approval vote — 4 to 3 — means the bill will be debated in the full Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by longtime environmentalist Sen. Barbara Boxer.
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