WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will advance climate-change legislation quickly, aiming to pass a bill as early as next week, committee Chair Barbara Boxer said on Thursday.
"We're going forward hopefully early next week, that's our plan," Boxer told reporters after three days of hearings on the bill she and Senator John Kerry wrote to reduce U.S. industry emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020, from 2005 levels.
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