WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senators leading the way on climate-change legislation have written a scaled-back bill that focuses largely on cutting carbon emissions by electric power utilities, according to a draft of the bill obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.
U.S. Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman hope their proposal will be included in a larger bill to clamp down on offshore oil drilling in the wake of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill and an initiative to expand the use of alternative energy.
But senior Democrats have not yet made a decision on whether to include the controversial climate change measure.
