Waxman Won’t Compromise on 20% Carbon Cap in Climate [Con] Measure - Bloomberg.com

April 17 (Bloomberg) -- House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman said he won’t compromise on his proposed 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gases over the next decade in the face of criticism from lawmakers who say the economy could suffer.

“I want to keep those caps in place,” Waxman said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt” airing this weekend. “It’s what the scientists are telling us we must do” to avoid a global catastrophe, he said.

Can we see a list of the names of these scientists?

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar still believes

“We are at a point where we are having to make and will make some decisions that will move us forward, as part of President Obama’s comprehensive energy plan,” Salazar said in his introductory remarks at the Anchorage meeting. “… We are at the point where we have to address the issue of energy. And climate change is a signature issue of our time.”