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The article reports on the United States' climate-change policies. According to the article, about 13 bills have been introduced in the U.S. Congress that take varied approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions such as tax on fossil fuels and a mandatory system in which carbon dioxide emissions are capped. A group of senators has introduced the America's Climate Security Act that combines elements of 12 previous climate-change proposals.

Presents news items related to government policies affecting the chemical industry in the United States, compiled as of May 2001. Bush Administration's policy on climate change; National Academy of Sciences president's plan to expand the knowledge of science.