U.S. Congress - H.R.2454 American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
H.R.2454 - American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009
To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. view all titles (12)
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- Short: Safe Climate Act as passed house.
- Short: National Climate Service Act of 2009 as passed house.
- Short: Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods Act of 2009 as passed house.
- Short: GREEN Act of 2009 as passed house.
- Short: Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 as passed house.
- Short: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as passed house.
- Short: Safe Climate Act as reported to house.
- Short: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as reported to house.
- Short: Safe Climate Act as introduced.
- Short: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as introduced.
- Short: American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 as introduced.
- Official: To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. as introduced.
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This bill will increase our cost for power 3 times over.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm2438.cfm
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Creating jobs is pointless unless those jobs create goods and services demanded by consumers in a free market. Otherwise you're just creating busy work that's just a drain on the economy.
Energy is in very high demand. It is consumed by all Americans.
The Heritage Foundation? Seriously? You mean the same Heritage Foundation that denies the existence of hunger in America?
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Oh gee, another "first step." Just like the DOE, the ECA '92, the EPA, and a hundred other "first steps toward environmental responsibility."
It's cute how you pretend this will be the first time the government has tried, rather than just the next in a long line first steps that never go anywhere.
What about the enormous tax burden this puts on the American people at a time when our economy is struggling? The bureaucracy that this bill creates is absolutely ridiculous!
It is interesting that only 15% of the users on this site support this bill, yet it looks like the house passed it.. Just goes to show how out of touch congress is with the people...We need to vote alot of these nutheads out and get someone with common sense in the congress..
Renewable energy is the best thing our government and citizens can invest in. It is a much better investment than GM.
Wow, it amazes me how afraid people are of change. The terrible things predicted to happen due to the introduction of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 are going to happen anyway. Taxes will rise, jobs will be lost and stupid people will remain in the dark. The average cost to the typical household will be 20 cents a day to start investing in responsible, renewable energy that needs to be in place before we run out of fossil fuels. I believe in sound business ideas and working toward a better future for all people so 20 cents a day and a chance to get an environmentally friendly job sound like a good idea to me. Support a Bill that serves a purpose and actually read the whatever it is you have already formed a strong opinion of, instead of taking mine or anybody else's word for it.
20 cents a day is an extremely low figure for most articles I have read. This will put a burden on businesses in this country resulting in some closing their doors. This will be a burden on the American people who cannot afford another bill from Washington which is not cost effective for the expected results. Lastily, climate change on earth has existed as long as earth has. This is a normal process that cannot be stopped by humans. The change in this bill will be minimal to the scope of the climate changes that occur. The increase costs to American could be devasting. In Tennesse we have seen a very mild summer and winter is expected to be the same.
Take away the subsidies and handouts that the Coal, gas, oil and Nuclear receive and add their externalities and your looking at true burden that the American people cannot carry. It's not like these Industries are creating jobs -which renewable energy will- they're losing them! Over the past quarter century the Coal Industry has axed 20 percent of thir workforce and increased productivity by 50%! They don't need people! Meanwhile the manufacture of renewable energy plants and the workforce needed to run them will create millions of jobs for our economy. If you don't change you stagnate, and that is exactly what has happened to our economy.
There is no stagnation, its stabilization. Thats the crux of the argument AGAINST investing in the demonstrably LOW return in renewable energy sources. Coal is a tried and true, PRODUCTIVE, and these days 99.7% clean energy source (c&t plans from the 90s reduced toxic emissions nearly completely, the remainder has no detrimental effect on the environment overall.) Spending hundreds of billions on sources of energy that have SIGNIFICANTLY lower return while making it harder and MORE expensive to produce energy from proven sources like coal and oil, do nothing but create a drain on our economy while having a net zero effect on global temperatures. The only significant force on earth that affects global temperatures is the sun, and the only significant effect on that input energy is the albedo of the earth. Why "create" jobs in a market that is so fragile and weak it will increase costs enough to put many, many other businesses out of business (loosing just as many, if not more, jobs)?
Climate Change has never existed as it does now in the history of our planet earth; Never has the rate of change occurred so fast, and never has man caused such change, until now. This is not a normal process, this is an abnormal catastrophe caused by the amount of greenhouse gas we produced. But we CAN curb the change, by cutting our greenhouse gas emissions!
In Tennessee it is expected to get much hotter and as a result of climate change, and the people of Tennessee are expected to suffer massive heat waves, like the ones that killed thousands in Europe several years ago. Tennessee is also expected to have increased flooding like that wich we have seen recently in several midwestern states. Fisheries, and Forests are expected to suffer as well when temperatures rise, replacing hardwoods with pines and scrubs.
Of all "greenhouse" gasses, Carbon Dioxide is the weakest by orders of magnitude. The only truly significant "greenhouse gas" is water vapor, providing over 95% of the net effect. Carbon dioxide has about 0.12% effect overall, with other atmospheric aerosols such as Methane and other black-bodies combining to cover the other 5%. Global temperatures are primarily driven by energy input from the sun, and the only thing that has any significant effect on that input energy is the albedo (reflectance) of the earth. (Of which there is tremendous evidence...do a couple web searches.) The highest temperatures on record since 1945 were in 1997, and global temperatures according to aggregated data since then have been on a DECLINE, not an increase. Also note that the "predictions" of global warming conformists are orders of magnitude off from actual data.
I agree with you, but the same people who don't want to pass the debt to there children or grandchildren, are quite happy to pass a deteriorating planet with poor air quality, and a diminishing ozone layer, melting arctic ice, and a rise in ocean temperatures leading to an increase of hurricanes to say the least. Interesting right?
"Climate change" is a scam. Lets concern ourselves with real conservation and energy efficiency and stop trying to come up with new ways to tax our citizens.
Totally Agree...Climate change is a Tax Scheme.
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There is 0 credible evidence that man has caused any form of climate change (which is why they've stopped calling it "global warming" and started calling it "climate change" ... since it is hard to say we are "warming" something when it has gotten cooler over the last 5 years). There is tons of credible evidence that the climate goes through natural cycles that we both have nothing to do with, and are incapable of influencing.
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Buying into this fallacy? Do your homework by viewing online some of the presentations by 80 prominent climate experts at the "2009 International Conference on Climate Change," March 8-10, New York City (http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/newyork09.html).
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the proliferation of studies proving climate change are bought and paid for by the U.S. government. The 80 other studies are probably the most credible and independent ones out there because they are not held hostage by the U.S. goverment to hold to a preconditioned mindset.
You are right about the 80 prominent climate experts but you forgot, (a convienent thing Republicans do), to include the whole story!
About 800 scientists, economists, legislators, policy activists, and media representatives attended the event, which took place at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel. Produced by The Heartland Institute and 60 co-sponsoring organizations, the conference is devoted to answering questions overlooked by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The IPCC concluded global temperatures may already have reached crisis proportions, and that human activity was a key driver in raising temperatures, primarily because of the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Get it right! "To include the whole story" is a convenient thing politicians on both sides do.
I did not say the Earth's temperature does not change; I said there is no credible evidence that humans have any significant impact on the change. And there were hundreds of scientists that were not allowed to speak at that conference with evidence that disputes anthropomorphic climate change theory.
HOw sad that you believe the evidence is not credible. You should do your homework as Blessed88008 says.
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