Senate Considers Ecology in Energy Bill

NPR | By Elizabeth Shogren

Published June 22, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Part of the Senate energy bill is a proposal by McCain and Lieberman that would require industry to roll back greenhouse emissions to where they were five years ago by 2010. But industry groups and the White House are opposing the measure.

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