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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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March 18, 2008 America's Climate Security Act Bad for the Economy

A new study out last week looks at the economic impact of the America's Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191). The bill would create an emissions cap designed to dramatically reduce the amount of CO2 that the United States emits (it ...

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March 18, 2008 EPA Issues Analysis of Lieberman-Warner Concluding Carbon Credits ...

The US EPA at the request of Senator Joe Lieberman and Senator John Warner evaluated S. 2191 the Climate Security Act authored by the two senators. The agency reached various conclusions about the bill and the greenhouse gases that ...

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Source: The New Carbon Cycle


March 18, 2008 Halloween Economists On National Tour to Spook Climate Action

The current prime example of this phenomenon is exemplified by a report called Analysis of The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) released by the American Council on Capital Formation (ACCF) and the National Association of ...

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Source: Solve Climate Chronicles


March 18, 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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March 17, 2008 Cap-and-Trading Our Way to 1.8 Million Less Jobs

Cap-and-Trading Our Way to 1.8 Million Less Jobs Posted March 17th, 2008 at 11.16am in Energy and Environment. The Lieberman-Warner (S.2191 - America’s Climate Security Act) could cost

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March 17, 2008 Economics of Climate Change Legislation

Gristmill pointed out a new document released by the EPA last Friday afternoon. The document analyzes the potential economic impact of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S.2191). The EPA found that the GDP would gro

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March 17, 2008 EPA examines Climate Security Act

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: Carbon Neutral Digest


March 17, 2008 Economic ‘Modeling Wars’ Begin on Climate Legislation

The EPA has released its analysis of the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill (S. 2191):. The leading congressional proposal to control greenhouse-gas emissions could be implemented without significantly harming the nation’s economic ...

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Source: Green Wonk


March 17, 2008 EPA releases economic analysis of Lieberman-Warner bill

The EPA's climate change economic analysis group released a study last week of the leading piece of climate change legislation moving in the Senate, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S.2191). Under their assumptions ...

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March 17, 2008 EPA finds low cost for deep GHG cuts

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: Climate Progress


March 17, 2008 $ 2,9 Biljoner i sänkt BNP för en sänkning av CO2 på 25 ppm!

Senator Lieberman och Warner begärde att EPA (US Environmental Protection Agency) skulle beräkna kostnaderna för det amerikanska samhället av the S. 2191, (the ‘Climate Security Act of 2007′ , numera the ‘Lieberman-Warner Climate

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March 15, 2008 EPA Hides the Ball in Analysis of Global Warming Bill

WASHINGTON (March 14, 2008) -- EPA’s just-released analysis of Senate Bill S. 2191 (“Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008”) hides the key conclusions of its own experts, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) ...

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March 15, 2008 EPA report shows US economy can grow while reducing harmful emissions

... and the EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Robert Meyers formally requested that the Environmental Protection Agency analyse the economic consequences of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S.2191). ...

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Source: Carbon Footprints


March 15, 2008 EPA Hides the Ball in Analysis of Global Warming Bill - All ...

By admin - Posted on March 15th, 2008 WASHINGTON (March 14, 2008) — EPA’s just-released analysis of Senate Bill S. 2191 (“Lieberman-Warner Climate Security … Senators and Environmental Leaders Gather and Signal Unity for … ...

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March 14, 2008 Climate Change Bill Could Cost America 1.8 Million Jobs

Climate Change Bill Could Cost America 1.8 Million Jobs Posted March 14th, 2008 at 12.00pm in Energy and Environment. The Lieberman-Warner (S.2191 - America’s Climate Security Act) could cost

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March 14, 2008 Lieberman-Warner: 1.8 Million Jobs May Be Lost By 2020, New Study Says

Lieberman-Warner: 1.8 Million Jobs May Be Lost By 2020, New Study Says March 13th, 2008 by Ed 1 ... when the beleaguered Lieberman-Warner climate bill (S.2191 - America’s Climate Security Act) looks

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March 14, 2008 EPA Hides the Ball in Analysis of Global Warming Bill - All ...

EPA Hides the Ball in Analysis of Global Warming BillAll American Patriots (press release), Sweden - 12 minutes agoBy admin - Posted on March 15th, 2008 WASHINGTON (March 14, 2008) — EPA’s just-released analysis of Senate Bill S. 2191 ...

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March 14, 2008 Global Warming Insanity

America's Climate Security Act of 2007 (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 ...

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March 14, 2008 March 14, 2008 Linkage

The analysis of S. 2191 released today is based on the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) model, which is used by the Energy Information Administration. However, the “input assumptions” used by NAM and ACCF produce dramatically ...

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March 13, 2008 Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Statistics from industry on ...

The study that the National Association of Manufacturers‘ paid for, released earlier today, Analysis of The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191) Using the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), fits well within that long ...

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Source: Energy Smart


March 13, 2008 Wrong Again 1: Business Attacks Climate Security Act

The NAM/ACCF report, titled “Analysis of The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 2191),” unsurprisingly predicts that the Climate Security Act would lead to higher electric rates, loss of jobs, high allowance prices, ...

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Source: Climate Progress


March 13, 2008 The Steep Costs of Lieberman-Warner

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation released a new report today analyzing the costs of implementing S. 2191, the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill, the leading legislative ...

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March 12, 2008 Lieberman-Warner almost on calendar

CQ is reporting today that Senator Boxer (Chair of Environment and Public Works, the  Senate committee of jurisdiction on climate change) has gotten Majority Leader Reid to agree to call up S.2191 in early June.  The ar

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Source: E&C Intelligence Report


March 12, 2008 Press Release: Statement on NAM-ACCF Analysis of Lieberman-Warner ...

The analysis of S. 2191 released today is based on the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) model, which is used by the Energy Information Administration. However, the “input assumptions” used by NAM and ACCF produce dramatically ...

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March 12, 2008 New Study Highlighting the National and 50-State Economic Impacts ...

... (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) that quantifies the potential national and state economic impacts of the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill, S. 2191, the America’s Climate Security Act of 2007. ...

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March 11, 2008 Be Wary of the Agenda Behind Flawed Cost Projections

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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March 11, 2008 Be Wary of the Agenda Behind Flawed Cost Projections

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: Eco-Pragmatism


March 06, 2008 Caps and Trade-offs: Presidential Candidates Embrace Massive ...

... dioxide emissions over the next several decades. Meanwhile, Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) recently introduced America’s Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191), which proposes a similar cap-and-trade policy.

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March 04, 2008 LEILANI MÜNTER HEADED FOR CAPITOL HILL

America’s Climate Security Act (S.2191), introduced by Senator Lieberman (I-CT) and Senator Warner (R-VA), recognizes that climate change is damaging America’s natural resources and will cause substantial additional damage in the future ...

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March 04, 2008 Workshop on managing the costs of climate policy, March 19

A variety of proposals have emerged, including an explicit upper limit on allowances prices (in S.1766, the Low Carbon Economy Act) and an independent board to manage the emissions budget over time, in order to contain costs (in S.2191, ...

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