The Connecticut State Senate passed a global-warming bill Monday by the vote of 35-0.

As reported by the Hartford Courant moments ago:

The state Senate gave final — and unanimous — legislative approval Monday to a tough new bill requiring drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions connected with global warming, and the GOP leader in the Senate said he expects Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell to sign it into law. . . .The new bill would build on goals established by four years ago and would require Connecticut to cut emissions, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, to 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050.

If Rell signs the bill, the state long known as the Land of Steady Habits would become the fifth to enact such legislation — following California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Washington.