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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  • Official: To create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. as introduced.
  • Short: American Clean Energy And Security Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Short: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Short: Safe Climate Act as introduced.
  • Short: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as reported to house.
  • Short: Safe Climate Act as passed house.
  • Short: Safe Climate Act as reported to house.
  • Short: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 as passed house.
  • Short: Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 as passed house.
  • Short: GREEN Act of 2009 as passed house.
  • Short: Green Resources for Energy Efficient Neighborhoods Act of 2009 as passed house.
  • Short: National Climate Service Act of 2009 as passed house.

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GunnyG 10/16/2009 5:33am

TIME TO THROW OUT CONGRESS! Every time they open their mouth, they cost us money.

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KeithMessina 10/13/2009 11:10am

While decreasing pollution and becoming more energy efficient is a goal that we would like to work to. At a time when our economy is hurting, we need to create bills that can also help the people who are losing their jobs and feeling the burdens of trying to support their family. This bill will impose excess costs that the people and businesses of this country just can’t handle right now. Help me to create a better vision for this country by lending me your support as I run for US Congress against Barney Frank in Massachusetts.

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ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 5:22am
in reply to hardhatgal Jun 06, 2009 3:14pm

He is quite sickening.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 5:20am
in reply to ksavage Aug 24, 2009 9:42am

The good news is there is one, one that promotes healthcare for its citizens, one that wanted America out of a costly war that damaged our economy, one that did not pimp us out to the Chinese, one that promotes civil rights, one that cares about ordinary citizens and does not cut taxes for it’s super rich friends, one that does not have our phone conversations recorded and scare the American Public into allowing their civil liberties breached under the misnomer “Patriot Act”. In case you didn’t know, I am talking about the Democrats, facts are facts.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 5:12am
in reply to DCW Jun 07, 2009 6:39am

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

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 5:04am
in reply to mizentropy Jun 22, 2009 8:44pm

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.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 4:56am
in reply to jguv Jun 02, 2009 5:21pm

Thats libelous and inflammatory, the cost of electricity won’t be raised beyond the reach or ordinary citizens.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 4:52am
in reply to Janihall Jun 01, 2009 4:50pm

Global Warming has not been proven false, because it is already occurring, it is not theory. the earths temperature has risen 1.4 degrees fahrenheit in the past century. You can see the changes with retreating glaciers, and heat waves that have killed many people. "Plant a few trees shows how ignorant you are of what global warming really is, do some reading and stop misleading the American Public.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 4:52am
in reply to Janihall Jun 01, 2009 4:50pm

So your actually advocating for the companies who would leave the U.S? Not to mention that they’ve already done that en masse, before cap and trade proposals. This bill would not add many dollars to our utility bills, and it would not destroy jobs, it would create them. Common sense tells you new Industry brings new jobs, it’s just time for government to stand behind renewable energy, like it has done coal, oil and nuclear for decades. Take away their government crutch; and they would fold in a second. I notice you people talk about excess spending now, that’s foolishness. No excess spending has occurred for renewable energy, it’s been the opposite with a failing coal and nuclear industry getting fattened with government subsidies and handouts designed for new and innovative technologies like renewable energy.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 4:41am
in reply to quanez May 30, 2009 5:34am

We had eight years of cutting spending on everything but the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, look where that has brought us.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 4:39am
in reply to ksavage Aug 24, 2009 9:46am

If you think the last eight years created wealth your senseless.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 4:38am
in reply to ksavage Aug 24, 2009 9:46am

Going into debt is what we’re doing now; using China’s economy to support our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq(Thanks Bush). Renewable energy will create manufacturing and green jobs in the US, unlike coal and oil who are downsizing their job force, and increasing their productivity. Coal clearly doesn’t care for American workers, especially with all the mining accidents lately, black lung and poor wages is all you can expect from king coal nowadays, the oil industry isn’t much different either. A new job industry demands new and specially trained workers=well paid. Manufacturing and construction industry will boom.

ClaudeLemieux 10/08/2009 4:31am
in reply to 530i Jun 02, 2009 7:25am

Waste Biodiesel, Geothermal energy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Ocean Current Systems are all viable alternatives to coal and petroleum. The last eight years were about control, wake up.

mnvikefan 10/07/2009 11:45am
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in reply to ctrentham Jun 28, 2009 2:22pm

Amen brother! I am appalled at this legislation which is going to pass on an enormous cost to the tax payer with a huge bureaucracy and tons of red tape that will not accomplish anything.

mnvikefan 10/07/2009 11:40am
in reply to 1776IS2009 Jul 08, 2009 6:14am

You can pollute space, get a brain. Space is nothingness. A void. How do you pollute nothingness?

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mnvikefan 10/07/2009 11:34am

I’m not afraid of change or improving the environment. What scares me about this bill his the absolutely enormous tax burden put on the people of this country through the huge bureaucracy it creates

Hammurabi 10/06/2009 7:15pm

First of all the goal of this act is to restore and preserve. To use global warming as a fear tactic is non-sense. We cannot change the climate. The act creates a problem then sells you the fix. Anyone heard of “H1N1”? Everyone is not your friend the people behind this have qualities of good salesmen.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 6:48am
in reply to heylucy Jun 26, 2009 9:13am

Completely false lucy, if that was the case why are world leaders meeting in Copenhagen this December to discuss ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Wind and Solar plants capable of producing energy equivalent have a virtual negative impact in comparison to Coal. Clean nuclear power doesn’t exist, plutonium tailings from nuclear mining poison our water supplies! We can drill for oil here! But it is dumb, not only would it take over ten years to seismograph the oil, it would take even more time to deliver it to the American Public. In that time we could have built many more clean energy wind and solar plants, as well as waste biodiesel plants! The government has been funding Coal etc. for decades, they’re the reason our free market doesn’t exist! The point of subsidies is to fund new and innovative technologies, how much money do you think cars cost when they came out?

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 6:36am
in reply to heylucy Jun 26, 2009 9:06am

Actually many scientists are paid off by the billion dollar subsidy injected Oil, Coal, Nuke and Gas industries to speak falsely against climate change evidence.What do the other scientists have to gain by going against these companies? What other phenomenon is causing the icecaps and glaciers to melt? And what is causing them to melt so fast? And what is causing them to melt at the exact same rate as the global rise in greenhouse gas emissions? The best boost to an economy is innovation, it creates new jobs and life for the American Public.
The same old Oil, Coal, Gas and Nuke industries are stagnating our economy and producing fewer jobs each year, while sending our environment and thus economy to the bottom with it. How many more billions in handouts to industry execs, will our Chinese assisted-economy hold? Do you want to find out?

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 6:25am
in reply to ConservativeFLrunner Jun 25, 2009 8:45am

This bill is not Criminal! We had the facts for years! this is hardly a rush job, your just trying to throw dirt on this bill.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 6:23am
in reply to robert912 Jun 15, 2009 6:58pm

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!

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 6:08am
in reply to farmertony Jun 28, 2009 5:10pm

I agree, but I think the 21st century ones have already been invented.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 6:07am
in reply to chillywilly Jun 14, 2009 6:15pm

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.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 6:05am
in reply to Acct59 Jun 11, 2009 12:19pm

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.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 5:54am
in reply to dbmalkie6 Sep 07, 2009 4:49am

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.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 5:44am
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in reply to dbmalkie6 Sep 07, 2009 4:49am

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.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 5:36am
in reply to fortermlimits Sep 07, 2009 7:27pm

If they wanted to line their own pockets, they’d vote with the Billion dollar Coal, Oil and Gas industries, who have had a stranglehold on clean energy innovation since it’s it’s inception. Most of the biggest campaign contributions go to the “congressmen” who support big industry.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 5:32am
in reply to catnkaboodle Sep 11, 2009 9:32am

That’s completely false, firewood is carbon neutral.

ClaudeLemieux 10/06/2009 5:31am
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It’s time for this Bill to Pass! Enough sitting on the backburner! I won’t vote for any congressman who doesn’t vote for this bill!


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