Markey: With China and India on Board, No Excuse for U.S. Carbon Inaction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Chairman Ed Markey, 202-225-4012
WASHINGTON (March 9, 2010) – Following today’s announcement that China and India have signed onto the Copenhagen Accord, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-author of the Waxman-Markey clean energy and climate bill that provided the Obama administration with emission reduction targets, issued the following statement:
“Now that China and India have joined the process, there is no longer any excuse for U.S. inaction on establishing a national plan to create clean energy jobs and cut carbon pollution.
“The House has passed the Waxman-Markey bill. The Obama administration has provided leadership. It is now up to the U.S. Senate to continue this process, and I am encouraged by their progress.
“This is the most complicated political transaction in the history of the world, and we are getting closer every day to completing it.”
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