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Republican senator says open to U.S. climate bill
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World News on 17/10/2009 17:45:00
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Republican in the United States Senate,
conservative Senator Lisa Murkowski, said she would consider voting for a "cap
and trade" climate change bill Democrats are pushing if it also contains a
vigorous expansion of nuclear energy and domestic oil drilling. In an interview
set to air on Sunday on the C-SPAN cable TV network, Murkowski said cap and
trade legislation, which aims to mandate reductions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gas emissions, must protect consumers from energy price increases and
contain...