20 enviro groups praise Senate bill’s targets, say they’re ‘encouraged’

Twenty environmental groups presented a unified front today on the emerging Senate climate and energy bill a day after meeting with one of the principal authors.  The Alliance for Climate Protection, Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council and other activist groups issued a statement saying they are “encouraged by the progress” made in recent weeks by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) as they craft legislation that curbs greenhouse gas emissions and expands domestic oil, gas and nuclear power production.

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