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...right direction—even if the measures inside of it may not go as far as all environmentalists would like. Although some environmentalists believe that the current bill is not strict enough, especially since it strips the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon pollution, this opportunity for reform, albeit stunted, cannot be missed...
...measures that would slow the rate of climate change. Even if the current bill passes, Congress should focus on crafting and passing an even stronger bill to protect our environment. Following the global response to climate change in Copenhagen, the U.S. still lags behind its European counterparts in reducing carbon-dioxide emissions; while European countries are offering to cut pollution by 30 percent below 1990 levels, the U.S. commitment totals only four percent from 1990 levels. In particular, although clean-coal technologies sound environmentally friendly, in reality, the transportation and manufacturing of these technologies arguably result in greater carbon-dioxide...
...more affordable. Another is to increase the efficiency of the company’s operations, though Odum noted that as an individual company such improvements in efficiency do not make much difference in the whole global system. A third major role for his company, Odum said, was developing low-carbon energy, such as natural gas and sustainable bio-fuels...
...alongside several other countries’ efforts to reduce carbon emissions, Shell set a target for reducing their own CO2 emissions by five percent from their 1990 levels by 2010. As of 2009, Shell Oil has reduced its total emissions by 35 percent, according to Odum...
...pushing for a wave of new construction. According to the Department of Energy website, the Nuclear Power 2010 program unveiled in 2002 “has succeeded in building momentum toward a ‘nuclear renaissance’ in which nuclear plants are effective options for zero-carbon electricity production.” Together with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, this program put in place a set of initiatives that provide for some degree of cost sharing between the DOE and industry and expedite “approval for construction and new plant designs...