So How Good Is This Climate Bill, Anyhow?

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Author(s) Carl Pope
Source The Huffington Post
Date May 22, 2009
URL http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/so-how-good-is-this-clima_b_206783.html
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Quotes-start.png "First, the bill establishes a strong long-term goal -- an 80 percent reduction in carbon pollution by 2050. It contains the strongest energy-efficiency language ever to emerge from a Congressional committee. It makes a huge commitment to protect tropical forests. And it puts the down payment on a number of other critically important initiatives: financing energy efficiency, protecting low-income consumers from energy-price spikes, helping developing countries and U.S. communities protect themselves from natural disasters resulting from climate change, and helping buffer America's wild heritage from the impacts of climate change." Quotes-end.png


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This item takes a mixed stance on the position Act should be passed on the topic American Clean Energy and Security Act.