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Oh, well. WASHINGTON -- The Senate rejected a plan Thursday to curb carbon dioxide emissions from industrial smokestacks as a source of global warming. It was the chamber's first vote in more than six years on the controversial issue of climate change.
The 55-43 vote against the measure co-sponsored by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., capped a two-day debate that the two senators described as the opening shot in what they acknowledged will be a lengthy effort to get Congress to address global warming.
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The McCain-Lieberman bill would have imposed a nationwide cap on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that many scientists say are causing the Earth to warm up. The bill would let companies trade so-called pollution rights to cover plants that exceed their limits, and would limit global warming pollution by 2010 to the level it was in 2000.
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Lieberman said the bill would affect utilities, refineries and commercial transportation, but not auto manufacturers, farms or residences. From the New York Times.
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