Reuters: Senator John Kerry, a key U.S. lawmaker trying to craft a cap-and-trade bill, denied a report on Wednesday that advocates of this plan to curb climate change were scaling back their efforts. “Our goal remains exactly what it was before: to price carbon and to create a target for reduction of emissions that is real,” the Massachusetts Democrat told a forum on clean energy, jobs and security. “So we have not scaled back our goals, they are the same,” Kerry said. “We have not …