INDUSTRY APPLAUDS SEN. VITTER AS CLIMATE CHANGE SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR

Industry officials who oppose government controls on carbon dioxide emissions are welcoming Sen. David Vitter's (R-LA) March 8 appointment to head a new subcommittee on global climate change. The conservative senator's record may indicate he could use the role to "give a microphone" to scientists who are skeptical that global warming exists, these sources say. The new subcommittee is being formed as part of a restructuring of the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, which had been chaired by Sen...