NWF Campaign Targets 50 House Lawmakers 1
The National Wildlife Federation has launched a campaign to get a total of 218 sponsors for the Waxman (HR 1590, equivalent to Boxer-Sanders) or the Olver-Gilchrest (HR 620, equivalent to McCain-Lieberman) cap-and-trade climate bills. The two bills combined have 170 co-sponsors. NWF is targeting what they call The Final Fifty, fifty legislators who have not co-sponsored either bill.
Climate Change Bills Comparison 4
Resources From the Future has posted a comparison of the climate change bills introduced in the 100th Congress, including
- Bingaman-Specter’s Low Carbon Economy Act (S. 1766)
- Udall-Petri discussion draft
- Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act (S. 280)
- Kerry-Snow Global Warming Reduction Act (S. 485)
- Waxman Safe Climate Act (HR 1590)
- Sanders-Boxer Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act (S. 309)
- Feinstein-Carper Electric Utility Cap and Trade Act (S. 317), electric utility cap-and-trade
- Alexander-Lieberman Clean Air/Climate Change Act (S. 1168), electric utility cap-and-trade
- Stark Save Our Climate Act (HR 2069), a carbon tax bill
This chart (pdf) compares the cap-and-trade mechanisms, and This graph (pdf) compares the emission reduction goals of the bills. View the graph below the fold.