Senators: Obama insists on energy bill with price on carbon emissions, which GOP opposes
By Erica Werner, APTuesday, June 29, 2010
Obama pushes senators for energy bill
WASHINGTON — Senators say President Barack Obama is insisting that any energy legislation put a price on carbon emissions — something many Republicans call an energy tax they can’t accept.
Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman told reporters after meeting with the president Tuesday that Obama was clear an energy bill must cap and price the carbon emissions blamed for global warming.
But Kerry, D-Mass., and Lieberman, I-Conn., the authors of proposed climate legislation, say they saw potential for compromise with the GOP and were willing to scale back their aims.
Republican senators said after the meeting that they could only accept a bill without what they called an energy tax. That left the path to compromise unclear despite urgency from the Gulf oil spill.
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