Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Climate-change skeptics are wrong and the U.S. will pass a new law capping greenhouse gases as it seeks to compete in the global market for low-emission technologies, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said today.
“Some people don’t even accept that climate change is real,” Salazar said in Copenhagen, where 192 countries are meeting to negotiate a new treaty to combat global warming. “I believe they are wrong. Their fear in my view is misplaced.”
Salazar, a former Democratic senator from Colorado, also said the U.S. Congress will succeed in passing a measure setting limits on carbon-dioxide pollution from power plants, factories and other sources.
“We will pass a comprehensive energy and climate-change legislation in the United States of America,” he said. “We will build a clean-energy future for our country.”
Salazar said it’s important that the U.S. remain competitive in the race to dominate the burgeoning market for low-emissions technologies.
“The U.S. can’t afford to fall behind in the energy technology that will shape” the future, he said.
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