First time a climate bill has reached the Senate floor that has been favorably reported out by the committee of jurisdiction.
Who deserves credit? Warner and Boxer.
The bill has bipartisan cosponsors, including Warner, Coleman, Collins, and Dole.
to protect the environment, economy and national security of the United States from man-made climate change.
Just last week the Bush administration itself released the scientific committee itself concluded that if we failed to reduce emissions and the resulting climate change would bring severe hardship on the American people, including slower growth and lower yields of key crops, plus greater wildfires, dwindling of mountain snows that provide reservoirs for the West, increased severity and duration of heat waves, greater spreading of animal and foodborne diseases.
The scientific community says we can still prevent the situation from reaching catastrophic proportions.
This bill puts a cap on the 2100 facilities that are responsible for 85% of the emissions. This is an upstream piece of legislation. The bill would tighten the cap slowly to about 30% of the current level by 2050.
This Bill is the energy independence and energy security act that America should have adopted the years ago….
This legislation will invest six times the amount of money that the Apollo program and the Manhattan Project invested — just on getting us off of foreign oil.
The Energy Information Administration says that under this legislation, the US economy will continue to grow robustly.
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