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The article reports on the approval of four legislative bills by the Senate committees in December 2007 in the U.S. The bills, focusing climate change issues, include the Climate Security Act, Climate Change Adaptation Act of 2007, Global Change Research Improvement Act of 2007 and Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act. The Climate Security Act establishes a cap-and-trade system for emissions reduction of greenhouse gases while the Climate Change Adaptation aims to develop necessary tools to adapt to climate change. Global Change Research Improvement Act restructures the federal Climate Change Science Program and requires a new 10-year strategic plan. Lastly, the fourth bill determines an acidification program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Reports that the United States Accounting Office (GAO) has criticized the administration's plan to combat rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Why Congress members have attacked the plan; Defenders of the administration's climate change plan.