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PLAN: Ratify Kyoto Protocol. Establish $150 billion Energy Security and Environmental Trust Fund to provide tax breaks for companies that develop alternative energy sources. Enforce mandates to lower smog and soot levels. Provide environmental protections within...
...PLAN: Cautious conservation. Require federal facilities to comply with all EPA regulations, continue research into causes and effects of global warming, clean up and redevelop "brownfields" abandoned by old industry. Provide market incentives for clean-living corporations. Restructure the EPA. Reject Kyoto protocol...
Especially in the light of the upcoming climate summit in The Hague later this month, it is finally time for Congress to face this reality. The climate meeting next month will bring together representatives of roughly 150 countries with the goal of working out further details of the Kyoto Protocol which they all signed in 1997. The protocol, however, has not been ratified by any industrialized country. Many European countries have made their ratification dependent on the decision reached in the U.S. Congress, since they feel they should not have to agree to cut emissions if the biggest polluter...
...IPCC assessment clearly states that humans contribute to global warming. Let's face that reality and take the next logical step of ratifying the Kyoto protocol...
...taken in the next few months on their behalf. In the end, it will be up to whoever is elected on Tuesday--to the Presidency as well as to Congress--to bear the responsibility of ensuring that the United States is a key supporter and ratifier of the Kyoto Protocol, and not to let politics as usual get in the way of everyone's future...