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NTPP Member and WRI Transport Director Nancy Kete Comments on Today’s Announcement

Climate experts at the World Resources Institute (WRI) applaud the six Midwestern governors and Manitoban premier who have released today recommendations for a regional cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

WRI’s analysis of emissions caps, allowances, offsets, and other critical components of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

Jonathan Lash, president of the World Resources Institute congratulates Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA), and members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on their historic vote this evening to approve The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACESA).

National Journal reported that U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is organizing a congressional trip to China over the Memorial Day recess, with a focus on climate change.

Proposed pollution caps in the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) would result in reductions of total U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. This is less than the 17 percent reduction from 2005 levels that the previous Waxman-Markey Discussion Draft as released would have achieved, according to a new analysis released by the World Resources Institute.

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The U.S. House of Representatives this week discusses a major climate and energy bill introduced by Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA).

S. 1013 authorizes the Department of Energy to conduct a program to demonstrate ten commercial-scale integrated geologic storage projects, and provides a framework for selection criteria for these demonstrations. Importantly, the bill addresses the long term-stewardship challenges associated with demonstration, including both long-term monitoring requirements and liability protection.

H.R. 1689, the Carbon Capture and Storage Early Deployment Act, introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) in March 2009, is designed to accelerate the development and early deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies by providing a funding mechanism for commercial-scale demonstrations that is outside the traditional appropriations process.

Energy efficiency is significantly cheaper than producing electricity with new power plants (see chart) and offers additional economic and environmental benefits.

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On April 17, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a finding that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare, opening the door to GHG regulation under the Clean Air Act. This fact sheet answers some common questions about how GHGs could be regulated, what outcomes could result from the EPA’s process, and how regulations could impact business.

For some time, U.S. states have been making demonstrable progress on developing their own climate change policies.

The United States has made green spending a key part of its stimulus packages in response to the domestic and global economic crisis.

In October 2008, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabi

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Energy, Environmental Considerations Could Be Included in Transportation Bill for First Time

WRI Applauds Midwestern Effort to Fight Climate Change

The American Clean Energy and Security Act: Key Elements and Next Steps

WRI Applauds Historic Step by the U.S. House of Representatives

Statement by Deborah Seligsohn on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Strategically Important China Visit

WRI Releases Analysis of Emission Reductions Under American Clean Energy Security Act of 2009

Emission Reductions Under H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, 2005-2050

“Common Sense” Climate and Energy Bill Praised by WRI President Jonathan Lash

Summary of S. 1013: Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program Amendments Act of 2009

Summary of H.R. 1689: Carbon Capture and Storage Early Deployment Act

Costs of Various Electric Power Resources

Bottom Line on Regulating Greenhouse Gases Under The Clean Air Act

Regional and State Actions on Climate Change

Green Stimulus Spending By Country

Emissions Reductions Under The Waxman-Markey Discussion Draft: 2005-2050

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