In late June, a White House-backed climate change bill passed 219-212 in the House, with virtually no Republican support.
And, of course, it wants to see any climate change bill Congress might consider be favorable to natural gas.
But does that mean until a new president signs a climate change bill?
In late June, he met with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House to discuss passing an energy and climate change bill this year.
On Tuesday the government will launch its Climate Change Bill, which puts the government's long-term goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050 into statute.
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So hot, you might say that the House is creating a special new committee to highlight the problem and senators are introducing one climate change bill after another.
Can he get the Senate to pass a slimmed-down climate change bill so he can work in a conference committee to get more of his energy priorities done?
And B, does the President need, does the administration need Senate passage of a climate change bill to seek a deal within the confines of the U.N. climate change talks?
But the administration opposes mandatory emissions targets, and there is probably not enough time to get a meaningful climate change bill to the president's desk by the end of the year.
The Waxman-Markey climate change bill that just passed the U.S. House of Representatives wants to force developing countries to accept this fate by resorting to the old and tired method of protectionism.
Some reckoned this was a compromise to win Republican support for Mr Obama's climate-change bill.
Over 40 of them broke ranks in the House over the climate-change bill.
Some observers guessed that he was trying to smooth the way for a climate-change bill by offering Republicans a present.
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His proposed climate-change bill, whose chances of becoming law before the mid-terms look slim, would be much improved if boondoggles were removed from it.
All this makes it highly unlikely, by the way, that there will be any progress on a climate-change bill in time for December's global meeting in Copenhagen.
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To distance himself from such policies when running for the Senate in 2010, Mr Manchin produced an ad in which he took a rifle to a proposed climate-change bill.
Getting a climate-change bill through Congress will be hard.
Now there is the likelihood that health reform, like the climate-change bill, will be deferred until the autumn, when fears about the deficit will have grown and the two expensive bills could combine to spook voters.
She chose to go to the country when Labor was ahead in the polls, just two months after fronting a coup against Kevin Rudd, seen as an autocrat and a loser after having abandoned his signature climate-change bill.
That row had a knock-on effect on a bipartisan effort to craft an energy and climate-change bill as Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator, withdrew his crucial support and blamed what he said was a partisan attempt to refocus on immigration.
Opposition parties also largely welcomed the bill, but Scottish Labour's climate change spokesman Des McNulty said his party would be scrutinising the bill to ensure its words would be matched with action.
At times he has argued powerfully in favour of a cap-and-trade bill to moderate climate change.
Critics of the Obama Administration have accused the president of abandoning climate change after the cap and trade bill he supported stalled in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate.
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This bill assesses how growth and climate change will affect our access to water resources, especially in the West and Southwest, and it includes solutions to complex and long-simmering water disputes.
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"This program is about climate change, not about fuel prices, " says Bill Graves, ATA president and former Kansas governor.
His bill to force mandatory action on climate change lost a Senate vote late last year, but got an impressive 43 votes.
The energy and climate change select committee has been examining the draft energy bill, which will establish this framework, and many witnesses have warned that the proposals will in fact raise the cost of capital, hamper competition and deter investment.
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