WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats struggled to salvage climate-change legislation and the leading proponent of the effort said on Thursday it could be tough to get a bill that caps carbon emissions passed. With November congressional elections fast approaching, Democrats are running out of time to pass a climate bill and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to put a price on carbon pollution in a climate and energy bill that is currently stalled in the Senate, the authors of the bill said after a White House meeting on Tuesday. Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent who wrote the legislation with ...

A Republican senator Wednesday offered a scaled-back plan to fight global warming, saying it was politically unrealistic for the United States to mandate cuts on carbon emissions in tough economic times. The proposal by Senator Richard Lugar would not create a "cap-and-trade" system requiring curbs in carbon -- a signature part ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican in the Senate next week will propose energy and climate legislation that aims to cut emissions of planet-warming gases, but with far lower goals than President Barack Obama seeks. Senator Richard Lugar, whose home state of Indiana relies heavily on dirty-burning coal to power electric ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A climate change bill unveiled last week in the U.S. Senate would create hundreds of thousands of jobs as the country moves away from fossil fuels and toward more nuclear energy and renewable sources of power, according to a nonpartisan study released on Thursday. "Between 2011 and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The best way to curb global warming is to put a price on climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions, according to a trio of reports from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences released on Wednesday. In blunt language at odds with the unwieldy climate change debate in the U ...

Two East Coast senators unveiled climate-change legislation Thursday aimed at reducing carbon emissions in the U.S. and lessening the nationÕs dependence on foreign oil, but the bill likely will have little effect locally.
The American Power Act, written by ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday praised U.S. Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman for a climate change and energy bill they are introducing in the Senate and promised to work to pass it into law. Carol Browner, President Barack Obama's top adviser on energy and climate ...

After a nearly year-long delay, the US Senate takes up legislation Wednesday on the first-ever nationwide system to battle climate change. But the political battle may only be beginning. Casting a shadow over the bill is a major oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, which has hardened environmentalists' resolve ...

After a nearly year-long delay, the US Senate takes up legislation Wednesday on the first-ever nationwide system to battle climate change. But the political battle may only be beginning. Casting a shadow over the bill is a major oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, which has hardened environmentalists' resolve ...