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S.2191: A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.

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April 09, 2008 Data contradicts global warming

Should you have any doubt about what you read here, look at Senate Bill S. 2191, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008, which will limit US emissions to 1560 thousand tons per year by 2050 or 81 percent lower than current US ...

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Source: Truth News Australia


April 08, 2008 Representatives Dingell Speaks On Energy & Climate Legislation

The Senate legislation, Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) [See WIMS 3/17/08], is expected to be voted on in the Senate sometime in June. The following are few excerpts from the speech with the full text available from the ...

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Source: eNewsUSA


April 04, 2008 Europe Fails to Cut Carbon Emissions as World Temps Continue to ...

Joe Lieberman (I-CT) spoke optimistically about getting the sixty votes necessary to forestall any filibuster against his cap-and-trade bill, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191). According to Darren Samuelson of E&E News ...

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Source: Radioactive Communist Zombies


April 03, 2008 EPA Must Find CO2 Endangers Public Health Before It Can Regulate ...

One climate change bill, S. 2191, has been voted out of committee, but its proponents still have a number of hurdles to overcome before it stands a realistic chance before the full Senate. The House has done nothing beyond introducing ...

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Source: ITSSD Journal on Energy Security


April 02, 2008 Lieberman-Warner promotes the transition to clean energy

A new article by the Center for American Progress (CAP) makes clear that the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, S. 2191 would be a boon to affordable, job-creating renewable energy. The article, by CAP’s Daniel J. ...

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Source: Climate Progress


April 02, 2008 Presiding Bishop urges Senate action on climate change

support measures to further strengthen S. 2191 during floor consideration. I want to be. absolutely clear that for those living in poverty, inaction on our part now will ultimately. be the most costly of all courses of action. ...

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Source: The Blog of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island


April 01, 2008 Can We???

Though all three viable candidates have energy and climate policies, and Congress will be debating the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191), in June, none of these plans are radical/ far-reaching, and immediate enough to ...

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Source: The Blue Voice


April 01, 2008 Al Gore launches $300 ad global campaign

A bill to establish a similar system for most emitting sectors in the United States, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191), was approved by Sen. Barbara Boxer's (D-CA) Environment and Public Works Committee in December and ...

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April 01, 2008 Economic Opportunity Act

Supporters say the Lieberman-Warner bill, “America’s Climate Security Act” (S. 2191), is the strongest . Office Of Economic Opportunity The Prince George’s County Africa Trade Office will build on opportunities presented since enactment

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March 31, 2008 Climate Change

I am grateful for Congressional attention to climate change, and I challenge the Senate to support measures to further strengthen S. 2191 during floor consideration. I want to be absolutely clear that for those living in poverty, ...

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March 31, 2008 American West Heating Nearly Twice As Fast As Rest Of World, New ...

Supporters say the Lieberman-Warner bill, “America’s Climate Security Act” (S. 2191), is the strongest global warming bill moving through Congress. The bipartisan bill is the first climate legislation ever to be passed out of a Senate ...

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March 30, 2008 American West Heating Nearly Twice as Fast as Rest of World, New ...

Supporters say the Lieberman-Warner bill, “America’s Climate Security Act” (S. 2191), is the strongest global warming bill moving through Congress. The bipartisan bill is the first climate legislation ever to be passed out of a Senate ...

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Source: The World Monitor


March 28, 2008 West Warming Up

The bipartisan Lieberman-Warner global-warming bill, “America’s Climate Security Act” (S. 2191), is the first piece of climate legislation ever passed out of a US Senate committee. The full Senate is expected to vote on the bill by ...

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Source: naturalistjourneys


March 27, 2008 American West Heating Twice As Fast As World Average

Spencer said, “We need strong leadership from western senators to pass America’s Climate Security Act [S. 2191]. The longer we wait to put a concrete cap on global warming pollution, the greater the threat to all Americans. ...

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March 27, 2008 Energy Companies Want to Save Your Job

“Green Scare” from the US Chamber of Commerce (a lobbying group, not a government agency). Senators Joe Lieberman and John Warner are the main forces behind the bill, America’s Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191).

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Source: Eco-Beat


March 25, 2008 Question

If you were elected, which member of Congress would your voting record most closely resemble, and would you support the Lieberman-Warner “Climate Security Act” (S.2191) if were to come before the House? ...

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March 25, 2008 Economic Impacts of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Bill

S. 2191 aims to reduce total US greenhouse gas emissions with the goal of lowering emissions 63 percent below their 2005 levels by the year 2050. These reductions would be achieved through a system that would call for companies to cap ...

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Source: Global Climate Scam


March 25, 2008 Nuclear is not a panacea

Called America’s Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191), the bill is the first climate change legislation to have a serious shot at being passed. The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works approved it in December 11-8. ...

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Source: citizenvox.org


March 24, 2008 Heating Up Unemployment

The legislation, America's Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191), is set to be debated in June. The full study, presented by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF), ...

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Source: Texans for Fiscal Responsibility blogs


March 24, 2008 Enviros promise ‘massive’ litigation over climate rules

... massive,” said David Bookbinder, chief climate counsel of the Sierra Club told an American Bar Association meeting on March 14, according to Carbon Control News (Mar. 14). CCN reports: “The pending bill, S. 2191, introduced by Sens. ...

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March 24, 2008 Lieberman-Warner Climate Change Legislation

On March 14, 2008, EPA issued its analysis of the S.2191, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008. S.2191 places declining GHG emission caps upstream on petroleum, natural gas, as well as manufacturers of F-gases and N20 and ...

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Source: MotorVehicleRegs.COM


March 21, 2008 New EPA Analysis Released on Climate Bills

WASHINGTON – Senators Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) today thanked the US Environmental Protection Agency for completing the analysis that they had requested of their Climate Security Act (S. 2191) last November. ...

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Source: Eco-Pragmatism


March 21, 2008 EPA Analysis of Climate Security Act of 2008

On March 14th, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long-awaited analysis of the Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 2191) introduced in the 110th Congress by Senators Lieberman and Warner. ...

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Source: Gaia's Climate


March 21, 2008 "Stop" Climate Change; Lose your Job

The bill, (S. 2191, American’s Climate Security Act of 2007) proposed by Senators Lieberman and Warner, would (according to NAM and ACCF):. [R]educe GHG emissions to 15% below 2005 levels by 2020; 30% below 2005 levels by 2030; ...

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March 20, 2008 NAM Climate Change Report Blows Your Socks Off

S. 2191, American’s Climate Security Act of 2007 would set a limit (cap) on carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use. Each covered facility would be given allowances based on past emissions. Companies that emit less carbon dioxide ...

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Source: Olympia Business Watch


March 20, 2008 This is an Argument?

Thorning is senior vice president and chief economist of the American Council for Capital Formation, with which the NAM recently released an independent economic analysis of S. 2191, the Lieberman-Warner...

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Source: shopfloor.org: The Manufacturers Blog


March 19, 2008 Incomplete Study Still Shows Affordable Results

The National Association of Manufacturers and American Council for Capital Formation released a study on Thursday March 13 with frightening predictions about the economic effects of the Lieberman Warner Climate Security Act, S. 2191: ...

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Source: Net News Publisher


March 19, 2008 Sustainable Forestry Practices Adopted by Many Lumber Companies in ...

An analysis by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) pending before the full Senate concluded that under the act total US greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) emission… ...

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Source: Forestry Portal


March 19, 2008 CRA Climate Analysis: "Extreme Again"

America's Climate Security Act of 2007 [S. 2191) is a bipartisan bill that would create a cap and trade program to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the US The Edison Electric Institute, a trade organization representing electric ...

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Source: NWF View


March 18, 2008 Debunking the myth, Part 36: EPA Analysis of the Lieberman-Warner ...

On November 9, 2007 Senators Lieberman and Warner requested that EPA estimate the economic impacts of the S. 2191, the ‘Climate Security Act of 2007’ (now the ‘Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008’). ...

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Source: Lake Minnetonka Liberty


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