[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 10, 2008)]
[Senate]
[Page S5437]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          CLIMATE SECURITY ACT

  Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I rise to respond to a statement that 
Senator Pryor made on Friday, June 6. On that day, Senator Pryor rose 
to express his support for the basic approach that the Lieberman-Warner 
Climate Security Act takes to reducing emissions of certain greenhouse 
gases called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. Senator Pryor praised our 
decision, in crafting the Climate Security Act, to subject HFCs to a 
separate cap-and-trade system rather than including them under the same 
cap with less potent greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. He 
expressed his hope that the initial level and reduction rate of the HFC 
cap could be revised before the bill becomes law. I welcome Senator 
Pryor's focus on the Climate Security Act's HFC provisions, and I would 
like to work with him on that portion of the bill as it moves through 
the legislative process. I remain interested in increasing the 
specificity of those provisions while simultaneously expanding the area 
of consensus among manufacturers of HFCs, distributors of HFCs, 
manufacturers of equipment that uses HFCs, and the environmental 
community.

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