Saturday, June 27, 2009

Bill may spur energy revolution


Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.

It was late Friday when the House passed legislation that would, for the first time, require limits on pollution blamed for global warming -- mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. Now the Senate has the chance to change the way Americans produce and use energy.

What would the country look like a decade from now if the House-passed bill -- or, more likely, a water-down version -- were to become the law of the land?



Read the analysis

1 comment:

Bob Norman said...

This is a direction we should've been taking two decades ago.