Climate/Carbon Offsets/Greenhouse Gas
- S 1576 (Shaheen) - Forest Carbon Incentives Program Act of 2009
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A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a carbon incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emission reductions on private forest land of the United States, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate Agriculture Committee
- S 1733 (Kerry-Boxer) - Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act
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A bill to create clean energy jobs, promote energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.
Passed by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on 11/5/09 and reported to the Senate
- S 1933 (Bingaman) - Natural Resources Climate Adaptation Act
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A bill to establish an integrated federal program that protects, restores and conserves natural resources by responding to the threats and effects of climate change, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate Environment and Public Works
- S 2729 (Stabenow) - Clean Energy Partnerships Act
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A bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from uncapped domestic sources, and for other purposes.
Referred to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
- S 2835 (Kerry) - International Climate Change Investment Act of 2009
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A bill to reduce global warming pollution through international climate finance, investment and for other purposes.
Introduced Dec. 3, 2009 and referred to Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- S 3072 (Rockefeller) - Stationary Source Regulations Delay Act
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A bill to suspend, during the two-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this act, any Environmental Protection Agency action under the Clean Air Act with respect to carbon dioxide or methane pursuant to certain proceedings, other than with respect to motor vehicle emissions, and for other purposes.
Introduced and referred to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on March 4, 2010
- HR 2283 (Moran-KS) - A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to permit the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to waive the lifecycle greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements for renewable fuel production, and for other purposes.
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Referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee
- HR 2454 (Waxman) - American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
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A bill to create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy.
Passed House on June 26, 2009
- HR 2880 (Pingree) - Buy American Carbon Incentives Program Act of 2009
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A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a carbon incentives program to achieve supplemental greenhouse gas emissions reductions on private agricultural and forestland of the United States, and for other purposes.
Bill language incorporated in HR 2454. Language incorporated in part into Sec 788 of HR2454 as passed by the House
- HR 4396 (Pomeroy) - Save Our Energy Jobs Act
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A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to provide that greenhouse gases are not subject to the act, and for other purposes.
Referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee
- HR 4572 (Skelton, Peterson) - A bill to amend the Clean Air Act relating to greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.
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Introduced Feb 2, 2010 and referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee
- HR 4573 (Rahall) - Stationary Source Regulations Delay Act
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A bill to suspend, during the two-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this act, any Environmental Protection Agency action under the Clean Air Act with respect to carbon dioxide or methane pursuant to certain proceedings, other than with respect to motor vehicle emissions, and for other purposes.
Introduced and referred to House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 4, 2010.
- H Con Res 2 (Christensen) - A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should incorporate consideration of global warming and sea-level rise into the comprehensive conservation plans for coastal national wildlife refuges, and for other purposes.
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Referred to House Natural Resources and House Agriculture Committees
