US climate bill on back burner

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota, addresses the North Dakota Senate at the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007. Dorgan told the Senate he will push for a public elk hunt in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Seated behind Dorgan is North Dakota Lt. Gov. Jack Dalrymple. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid)

Byron Dorgan: Influential senator says climate bill unlikely.

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By News Wires

 19 January 2010 17:48 GMT

US Senator Byron Dorgan said today he did not think the Senate would pass climate change legislation this year, but instead would focus on separate energy legislation that would require more electricity supplies to be generated from renewable sources and expand offshore drilling into the eastern Gulf of Mexico.



Dorgan said it would be difficult for the Senate to turn to controversial climate change legislation after it just had to deal with the health care bill.

"It is my assessment that we likely will not do climate change this year, but will do an energy bill instead," Dorgan, who is in the Senate Democratic leadership, said in a Reuters report.

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