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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Geez!......Doesn't somebody have a job they can give her already!!!!
I'm betting a lot of people do, but none of them are "good enough" for her.
Seems you people all have jobs in promoting coal, nukes, gas and oil. Unlike you the rest of America need help finding jobs. I suppose you are so well paid you are unaware of the financial crisis afflicting America at this moment? The economy has tanked because of taxing wars and handouts to failing industries like coal and nuclear, too much of our money goes overseas. The world is jumping on renewable energy while America sits on the benches, sidelined by Big Business lobbyists like yourselves, it's time America became a world leader in something other than war again. We could do it, once you are out of our way. Let hardhatgirl fight for America, while you fight for big business.
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Global Warming is a crock. What part of coming out of an ice age don't these idiots understand. Scientists have already proven the earth goes through a natural warming process as this happens.
Remember, if everybody had common sense about basic physics, your TV dinner wouldn't have a warning that "after heating, contents may be hot."
Perhaps you don't understand the science of it. No time in the worlds entire history has the rate of temperature changed as rapidly as it is doing now and has been doing since the industrial revolution. The Ice Age was ages ago, it has nothing to do with what is happening now. Scientist have correlated the rate of change with the rate of green house gas emissions(since the industrial revolution) into our atmosphere calculating the effect these gases would have on earths climate. Basically the temperature spiked when greenhouse gas emissions spiked, and it has been doing so ever since. Renewable energy is both better for our economy and our planet, as it doesn't produce smog(which can cause asthma that kills children every year), poisoned water and global warming among other things
Actually, CO2 increases have been shown to LAG temperature increases. How can anything in the future influence the past? If the themerature increase occurs BEFORE the CO2 increase, CO2 cannot cause the temperature increase.
Also, correlation does NOT mean causation. How do we know there is no hidden variable influencing both?
This bill would put every charity car donation program in the nation out of business since the amount of the voucher would be much greater than the tax deduction. The solution is to simply allow the charity to issue the voucher in lieu of the tax deduction. The charity would then junk the car in accordance with the bill. This way, everyone wins, the car dealer, car maker, car buyer and the charity.
Global warming is a hoax and has evolved into a tax scheme where the government will use utilities as an extention of the IRS. This has absolutely nothing to do with the environment but has everything to do with control and manipulation of an uninformed naive population. This is a flat-out lie. This government has debased the currency and run up unsustainable debts so it is now looking for any way to confiscate individuals property and money. It is no more complicated than that.
Any state that generates power by other than wind,solar or geo thermal or neuclar is going to see their power bill go througt the roof !!! 500.00 a month + power bills for a small house won't be unheard of when they get done. We may be green because the fat cats will be really rich with all that money from the government grants putting all that hot gas under ground !!1
There is no fear mongering here.....CAP & TRADE will impact an already fatigued economy in a devastating way..in the midwest they will be hit the hardest because of the age of their power plants..in the West where nucleur power is available the household expense will be closer to $800.00 annually...Have you seen the GE ads running every two minutes..they are gearing up to get rich from this and OBAMA has appointed Daschel to GE and is quite chummy with the CEO who by the way owns the Biased media stations.....Will cost America plenty and as far as global warming will not make a hill of beans difference..this is all about GREED and lining special interest Groups and lobbyist pockets...but Pelosi has also bought stock in windmills as well.....CORRUPTION
I also heard they are going to charge dairy farmers $175.00 per Cow because they pass gas "methane gas? from eating grass and it hurts the environment..there goes the price on milk and dairy products..the insanity going on in this administration is beyond belief..we are headed toward a wall going 150 miles per hour ...will we survive??? I doubt it...they do not want to rebuild our nation ..they want to remake into something we do not recognize and do not want.....WE WANT AMERICA BACK
Stop passing along completely false rumours, and twisting the ear of America! Just because you "heard" it doesnt make it true. Small family farmers who support local economies are not to blame for the excess production of methane gas, it's the big industries who breed billions of animals in filth, store their methane leeching waste improperly contaminating our water supply with things like E-coli and salmonella, and poison cows with antibiotics, which reduces our effective resistance to diseases like swine flu.
Your right we are headed for a wall, called Global Warming, and thanks to previous inaction on the part of the Congress, we Are headed for it at 150 miles an hour, but we can stop.. Renewable energy will rebuild our nation, into something we want, and something we will recognize; successful, independent and a genuine world leader.
It's a FACT that the EPA is wanting to classify water vapor (like off of dams and hydro-electric generators) as a taxable polluting money maker too. There goes even higher energy costs. How much more asinine can this BS get? I have a feeling if the public is pushed much more it isn't going to be a pretty sight.
I haven't read anything about cattle yet but nothing would surprise me with these greedy bastards running around out of control. Basically that sums up exactly what has happened to our country, greed and bastards. I would love to see some of these greedy POS's removed from office, preferably out of the country but I'll take what is within reason.
You know if they taxed the damn illegal immigrants (Mexican population) for methane they could cut the deficit in half eh?
there's got to be an agreeable solution we all need without being such ridiculously and extreme limits, Or penalties.
The reasonable solution is to get the government OUT of the energy sector. Oil, coal, hydro, nuclear are by FAR the most efficient forms of energy production and these meddling idiots have been systematically dismantling our ability to FUNCTION as a people and a country.The global warming hoax is an income transfer program and a way for the bankrupt federal government to increase it's control and tax revenue.This has absolutely nothing to do with the environment.
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As an Independent / Libertarian, wait until 2010 and we'll see what party rises to the top. You had one statement right, "sustainable living is the new order of the day." Perhaps you should have said, "new world order". American's will soon take back our Country from those who seek to destroy it and create the "new world order". Not by violent means, rather by throwing the Liberals/Progressives to the curb and all their country killing philosophies. Perhaps if you, CommonSense, had any, you would be more than a sheep being lead by wayward shepherds to the slaughter!
Do you know how much money the government(Bush and past) have paid in subsidies to keep the oil, coal, and nuclear industries alive? Hundreds of billions of U.S. Tax payer money. By the way Nuclear has 3 percent effiency and if we ever had a nuclear accident in the U.S. it would cost us over 400 billion dollars to clean it up, what a waste of money. The coal industry is cutting jobs faster than their cutting mountaintops off, we don't need that. And the oil industry will continue to raise and lower prices as it sees fit to keep Americans hooked on Gas until there is none left. The government is Bankrupt because of these industries and the wars, the coal and oil industries would rather see us hooked on China's life support system than let us walk freely. We don't need coal, oil, hydro or nuclear what we need is wind, solar, waste biodiesel, geothermal and ocean current systems to inject new life into our economy, to make America the world leader we were born to be!
Extreme is the trillions of dollars in subsidies paid to polluting industries, and the hundreds of billions required to clean up a nuclear accident. Take away the subsidies and we have way more than enough to successfully pay for this bill.
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exactly right you can't keep doing the same thing hoping for a differnet outcome. screw the arabs and all the other oil producers we have to our own energy supplies. not the same ol thing filling the oil companies pockets. build a wind mill, buy a plug in car, use mass transist, do something, make a difference. we don't want all those old jobs back, we want new 21st century ones that haven't been invented yet.
I agree, but I think the 21st century ones have already been invented.
Coal is cheaper in the US because of its massive supply. Oil would be much cheaper if we allowed companies to actually drill our reserves. And we would have very few fossil fuel plants in the country if people would stop freaking out about having a nuclear plant in their area.
Side note: burning coal produces no radiation. Coal is not radioactive.
It is my understanding that one of Alaska's largest reserves can be drilled without significant environmental impact. One would only need to drill within a short distance of where the oil pipeline runs. The reserve itself is a huge reserve spanning hundreds of square miles, but the edge of it runs close to the pipeline.
With adequate restrictions to ensure that by some loophole drilling doesn't occur on a large scale over the entire reserve, I think permissible sites can be found nearest to the pipeline that mark a nice compromise.
That is only a temporary solution to a permenant problem. What happens when those reserves are tapped out? What then? We need clean renewable energy now not later. We need to stop prolonging the inevitable and make the push to green energy now!
Coal burning is the number one cause of alarming worldwide rise in mercury pollution of fish. Burning coal is a leading cause of smog, acid rain, global warming, and air toxics. Burning fossil fuels causes air pollution & accumulation of toxic wastes. Mother nature buried coal & oil for a reason-they are the fuels from hell. Wind & Solar energy is abundant and free from pollution and deadly toxins-they are the fuels from heaven.
You could make your point without making idiotic remarks.