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NRDC on Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007
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New Global Warming Bill Signals Momentum Growing for Effective Reductions
WASHINGTON
(January 12, 2007) – Today Sens Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John
McCain (R-Ariz.) will introduce the Climate Stewardship and Innovation
Act of 2007. The new bill contains a “declining cap” provision that
cuts emissions steadily over time, managing costs while effectively
reducing pollution.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) proposed such a declining cap in the November, 2006 issue of Science.
The Lieberman-McCain bill caps the global warming emissions of the
electric power, industrial, transportation, and commercial sectors of
the economy at year 2004 levels by 2012. It then lowers that cap
steadily, to cut total U.S. emissions by two-thirds from year 2004
levels by 2050.
Below is the statement of NRDC President Frances G. Beinecke:
“This
first global warming bill of the new Congress shows our leaders in
Washington are declaring that the era of delay has ended and the year
of action has begun. They know what the American public already knows:
to protect the climate, the United States must start cutting global
warming pollution now and reduce emissions steadily over the coming
decades.
“While the bill’s
environmental objectives are a strong advance, one provision remains
misguided. Despite the provision of billions of dollars in subsidies to
the nuclear industry in the 2005 Energy Policy Act and over $85 billion
in historical subsidies, the bill introduced today contains additional
nuclear subsidies that NRDC continues to oppose. Additional giveaways
to an industry made up of some of the world’s wealthiest firms are
neither necessary nor warranted.
“NRDC, on behalf of
its 1.2 million members and online activists, will work with the
authors of this bill and other strong global warming proposals to
produce an urgently needed law that will restore American leadership in
this vital arena.”
The
Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization
of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to
protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has
1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New
York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.
