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US climate bill arrives in Senate

MAY 13, 2010
Physics Today
Nature : Senators Joe Lieberman and John Kerry took the wraps off their climate bill yesterday. The bill’s goal is stepwise reduction in US carbon emissions that reaches 80% by 2050. To attain that goal, the bill provides for a so-called cap and trade system of emission allowances that can be bought and sold and whose total is kept below a target limit.
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