AFP: New Senate to get major global warming bill

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Senate will take up two sweeping global warming bills in January, in the latest sign that Barack Obama's election could quickly reverse years of US footdragging on climate change.
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Boxer, chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, said one bill would combat harmful gas emissions by providing 15 billion dollars a year to spur clean energy innovation and the development of advanced biofuels.

The other piece of legislation will direct the US Environmental Protection Agency to set up a cap-and-trade system to stem greenhouse gas emissions.
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Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar meanwhile said she would be the committee's representative at the Poland talks.

She said she would tell other world leaders at the conference, which Obama will not attend, "that there is a new cop in town."

"We are moving forward on climate change, and there is going to be a difference with these past eight years of inaction with this administration."