U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor speak out on the climate change and energy bill now headed for consideration in their chamber after last week’s controversial House of Representatives’ vote.

“I have some concerns with the climate change bill,” Lincoln tells John Lyon with the Arkansas News Bureau. “The House I think moved very quickly, and I think there are still some things that we have to work through in the Senate,” Lincoln said.

She thinks that the measure will ultimately be considered in the Senate, but significant changes will occur.

“I’m not saying that we don’t need to pass it. I just think we need to make sure we put our 2 cents in and improve upon it,” she said.

Pryor said he has “never been a huge cap-and-trade fan.”

“One of the concerns I have with the cap-and-trade system is, what you do is put this big mechanism in place where there is trading of credits back and forth on carbon … but if China doesn’t do it, or India doesn’t do it, I’m not sure we’re really helping the environment,” he said.

Pryor noted that Europe’s cap-and-trade system has led to job exports to Brazil, China and other countries with few environmental restrictions, although that interpretation is subject to debate.

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