Posted on 03/02/2021 4:49:04 PM PST by Libloather
House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a revamped version of a major bill aiming to get the country on the road to carbon neutrality by 2050.
“Today’s introduction of the CLEAN Future Act promises that we will not stand idly by as the rest of the world transitions to clean economies and our workers get left behind, and that we will not watch from the sidelines as the climate crisis wreaks havoc on Americans’ health and homes," said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) in a statement.
The latest edition of the legislation, introduced by Pallone and Reps. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), also sets an interim target of reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions to no more than half of what they were in 2005 by 2030.
One of the ways it plans to reach its goals is through a clean electricity standard, under which power retailers would need to provide 80 percent of their electricity from clean sources by 2030 and 100 percent by 2035.
This lines up with President Biden’s stated goal of achieving a carbon-free power sector by 2035, and is 15 years more ambitious than the previous bill’s goal of a decarbonized power sector by 2050.
For a period of time, fossil fuel producers would be able to earn partial credits under the standard by lowering their carbon intensity, but this would eventually be phased out.
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What’s going to happen to all the carbon generated by Democrats?
Carbon Cretins on the loose.
A lot of Governments will come and got before 2050 and a lot of these Democrats are in their 80’s
Joe Biden raised Carbon Pricing from $8 to $51.
Too bad there’s so much line loss in electrical transmission lines.
Otherwise Calif could buy juice from the ChiComs who are building hundreds of coal fired generating plants...
CLEAN Future Act , LOL Democrats could care less about about the Future ,they want to fill their pockets NOW and screw the future generations
Unfortunately a lot of ones in their 50s will still be in office in 2050 unless the Constitution is changed.
2050 ya say?
Hmmm Im 68 in 2021. 2050 minus 2021 equals 29 years. 29 plus 68 equals 97.
Hmmm ... Im gonna sit this out. Its y’all’s problem!!
How much carbon be generated by all the necessary mines for copper, lithium etc for the green energy projects?
Pallone needs to be run out of town on a rail.
“One of the ways it plans to reach its goals is through a clean electricity standard, under which power retailers would need to provide 80 percent of their electricity from clean sources by 2030 and 100 percent by 2035.”
This should go over like a lead balloon in Texas. Guess I can look forward to total blackouts in the future if another polar vortex rolls through here again. Yippee.
2050 - According to AOC, we will be all dead by that time. So why even bother! Let us at least enjoy these few years we have left :-)
I’d like to see the mitigation plan when this goes t@@s up.
“as the rest of the world transitions to clean economies “
They have a copy of China’s Plan?
The CAGW grifters have learned that a 30 year projection pretty much puts it beyond the end of their career.
No sweat on actually being correct.
There is NO Science of The Climate.
The first installment of what they believe is the beginning of a 1000 year Reich.
I thought we’d already passed the point of no return. Is this one of those “free beer tomorrow” scams?
Get prepared for more large scale blackouts when the wi d isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining. Pity those of us in the Northern Plains when the polar vortex brings -40 temperatures and our electric heat cannot keep up.
Without a full throttle commitment to nuclear generation this is an impossible pipe dream. IOW not a serious proposal, just another money and power grab.
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