Forty-five House Democrats belonging to the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition have asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to accept the energy-only bill being advocated by some Senate Democrats in place of a climate change bill, E&E News PM reported. Coalition Co-Chairman Jay Inslee, D-Wash., said "it is essential" to include GHG emissions limits in the legislation and establish "durable mechanisms to ensure those targets are achieved."
Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Committee Chairman Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., was leading the push for an energy-only bill that would expand offshore energy production while also establishing a 15-percent-by-2021 renewable requirement. He claimed it would produce emissions reductions and have a greater chance of becoming law than a climate bill would. However, Dorgan's proposal inspired its own opposition from 10 Democratic senators representing coastal states.
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