Amendments to Strengthen the Climate Bill (S. 3036)
Before it was blocked, FCNL urged senators to support amendments to strengthen the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S. 3036). These included amendments
- to promote greater international cooperation to address climate change (Senators Joe Biden [DE] and Richard Lugar [IN]);
- to promote energy efficient green buildings (Senators Evan Bayh [IN], Diane Feinstein [CA], and Olympia Snowe [ME]) ;
- to cut emissions deeper and sooner if the scientific evidence indicates that the U.S. must to prevent dangerous runaway climate;
- to set a national renewable energy standard of 20 percent by 2025;
- to make polluters pay more to pollute sooner - instead of giving away so many pollution allowances for free;
- to provide more international adaptation assistance sooner to poor countries that are already being harmed by climate changes through no fault of their own (Senator Robert Menendez [NJ]).
We at FCNL opposed an amendment that would increase the use of nuclear power.
The Most Powerful CFL...
. . . is the one you put in Congress. Climate Friendly Legislators support
- reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to
25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020;
- a moratorium on new, polluting, coal-burning power plants;
- requiring electric utilities to generate at least 20 percent of their
electricity from the wind, sun, oceans, and other renewable
sources by 2020; and
- helping poor and vulnerable people at home and abroad
advance in the climate-friendly economy of the future.
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