"Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner said their plan would focus on 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, to cut these by 70 percent below current levels by 2050, and could be used as a blueprint in the fight against global warming.
“We hope it will be a turning point,” said Lieberman, who sits as an independent Democrat in the Senate, adding that the plan could reverse US foot dragging on tackling the global threat from climate change.
“We have been slow, we are already late, but not too late,” he said."
It is early in the process, and it would be premature to judge right now, but it does sound like a strong first step. If I understand things right, good legislating is like good haggling, you start high and you work down. There will be compromise and no doubt handouts to the auto and the utility industry, which will come later. It is just a good thing that it is being discussed.
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