SHOOT: It's refreshing to have a president in power who takes the climate issue seriously.
Gore, perhaps climate's foremost celebrity, will once again tell Congress that legislation is needed now to avert the dire consequences of climate change -- among them wildfires, droughts and storms.
Gore won a Nobel Prize and starred in an Oscar-winning film about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth." He has long blamed the appetite for fossil fuels like oil and coal for the planet's warming. In January he called on Congress to pass legislation to limit greenhouse gases this year despite a faltering economy.
The draft bill calls for a 20 percent reduction from 2005 levels by 2020, and 83 percent by mid-century. It also would require utilities to produce a quarter of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025.
This time around, there is a larger Democratic majority and a president who supports legislation to curb global warming.
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