Republican legislators are confident of being able to stop the US Congress enacting a cap and trade system for carbon dioxide.
Speaking to journalists at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference on Friday December 18, a group of representatives made their opposition to carbon trading clear, and several expressed doubts that mankind is causing climate change.
Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican congressman from Wisconsin, said: “The Waxman Markey bill is not a done deal” and that “if it does pass [through the Senate] it will be in a significantly different form”.
Democratic representatives Henry Waxman (California) and Ed Markey (Massachusetts) authored the American Clean Energy and Security bill, approved by the House of Representatives in...