Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Climate Change Conference

Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's chairman and ranking member, invited twenty-nine panelists to submit comments as part of a day-long conference and the committee's bipartisan effort to address the challenge of how Congress might go about creating a mandatory trading program to control U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The senators issued a "white paper" in February that included four basic questions about design elements of a mandatory market-based greenhouse gas regulatory system.