US proposing plan for Greenhouse gas emissions

The US is planning to propose a near-term target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions effect before the UN Climate Change summit in Copenhagen next month Dec 2009, a senior administration official said Monday. obama will announce the specific target “in coming days.”

The announcement of a target will take the present legislative deadlock over a climate bill into account, the senior official said, and thus might present a range of possible reduction rather than a single figure.

The lack of agreement in Congress puts obama in a complicated domestic and sensitive bind. He cannot promise more than Congress may ultimately bring when it takes up climate change legislation in 2010. But if he does not offer some solid pledge, the United States will bear the impact of the blame for the lack of an proper agreement nationwide.