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Posted on 01/08/2020 3:47:28 PM PST by yesthatjallen
House Democrats outlined their vision for sweeping climate legislation Wednesday, offering a first look at a bill that would push the U.S. to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Wednesday’s white paper provides the framework that lawmakers in July promised to deliver by early 2020 – a broad climate bill targeting every major sector of the economy.
“We’re treating this climate crisis like the emergency that it is,” House Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said of the so-called CLEAN Future Act.
The measure includes a requirement that utilities work toward 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2050, a mandate that includes a carbon credit trading system. The transportation sector would also have to be emissions free by that deadline, as the Environmental Protection Agency ratchets up increasingly tight vehicle standards. And buildings and industry would also have to clean up their act, using materials from more environmentally friendly sources while meeting tighter building codes.
States would play an active role in developing plans to ensure their economies meet the national standard.
And funding it all would be a first-of-its-kind National Climate Bank, mobilizing private and public funding to boost technological innovation as well as projects to bolster against the effects of climate change.
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Agreed. Trump should ban their limos, ban all their use of military aircraft. Force them to use electric buses and Southwest Airlines. And for Hawaii delegation, only solar powered boats.
What happened to “2030”? *chuckle*
Amen!
2050? I thought we’re all gonna die in ten years! Which is it?
All of life on Earth is carbon based. To go “carbon neutral is insanity. The end.
The most abundant “greenhouse gas” is water vapor. What are they going to do about that?
Limit them to one house with three bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths and a 2 car garage sitting on a 3/4 acre lot...
Will these maggots just drop the f*** DEAD already?!?
Right now they're a bunch of lame ducks with a megaphone medi. At midnight November 3rd them turn collectively into the dead donkey society.
Peppers make me Methane Positive. Are they gonna ban them, too, or just me?
If they exterminate all the deplorables they can reach that goal in no time!
And don’t think for a minute that hasn’t crossed their minds.
That's my take. A public/private slush fund for the well-connected.
Fools Errand
Dead Donks can help make us carbon neutral by 2021. Why wait til 2050?
We stick all Democrats in airtight rooms, and pump the room full of nitrogen. Dump the biomass out to sea to recycle.
Presto... I'm sure they will cooperate, considering the goal.
Sure. The VHE folks can help us meet our environmental goal of a planet with fewer humans around.
The heck with them. Those of us who love progress, health, comfort, our autonomy - either through our own vehicles, our Uber rides or the local bus - and things like plentiful groceries and products and even paper goods (think toilet tissue) have got to fight back against these loonies who want to drop us back into the Middle Ages.
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If they want to clean-up manufacturing, they will have to stop production of solar panels and rechargeable electric car batteries.
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