Posted by Brad Johnson on 23/05/2008 at 09:09AM
On Wednesday, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) announced her
support
for S. 3036, saying it “mirrors closely” the Kerry-Snowe Global
Reduction Act (S.
485), which
calls for a 65 percent reduction from 2000 levels of greenhouse gases by
2050. Snowe also noted that language from the Feinstein-Snowe Emission
Allowance Market Transparency Act (S.
2423) was
included in the manager’s mark.
Unlike Lieberman-Warner, Kerry-Snowe also sets a goal of achieving a
greenhouse gas stabilization target of 450 ppm, and calls for the
establishment of vehicle emissions standards. In Snowe’s press release,
she states that Lieberman-Warner “would reduce greenhouse gas emissions
by at least 66 percent by 2050,” although
NRDC analysis of the
bill
finds that Lieberman-Warner would only achieve reductions between 60 to
65 percent from 2000 levels.
Posted by Brad Johnson on 13/07/2007 at 12:51PM
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.