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26 records in 2001
Germany · German Bundestag · 1 January 2002
Aussprache auf Verlangen der Fraktion B90/GR, unabhängig von einer Fragestunde
Germany · Bundesrat · 1 January 2002
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2001
32 Ms Clune asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the decisions which have been taken on climate change following the meeting in Marrakesh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31013/01]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2001
32 Ms Clune asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government the decisions which have been taken on climate change following the meeting in Marrakesh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31013/01]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 December 2001
9 Mrs. B. Moynihan-Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if he will make a statement on the outcome of the 7th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Marrakesh in November 2001. [31116/01]
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 2001
Emission Reductions Incentive Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a national voluntary registry system for industry greenhouse gas trading under which emission reductions are assigned unique identifiers. Establishes in the Department of Commerce an implementing panel which shall: (1) promulgate standards for certification and operation of registries (operators of greenhouse gas emissions recording databases) and for measuring, verifying, and recording greenhouse gas emissions and reductions proposed by certified registries; and (2) maintain and publicize a list of certified registries. Amends the Global Change Research Act of 1990 to establish a Global Change Research Program Support Office in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Adds treaty coordination and experimental research program functions to the responsibilities of the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences. Directs the Chairman of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology to develop a strategic plan for the Program and submit a report and a revised implementation plan to Congress. Requires the National Science Foundation to establish a scholarship program for the study of global climate change. Directs the Department of Commerce's Assistant Secretary of Technology Policy to: (1) develop a plan to accelerate introduction of highly efficient, low-emission vehicles; (2) refine the charter and goals of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles and develop a detailed systems-modeling effort to assess the effect of using different technologies to meet emission requirements upon fuel economy; and (3) study the transfer of energy efficient technologies. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980, with respect to royalties received by Federal agencies, to increase amounts payable to: (1) inventors of climate change-related technologies; and (2) Federal laboratory employees for such inventions. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress on the effects the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will have on U.S. international competitiveness, scientific cooperation, and participation in international climate change mitigation efforts.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 2001
Energy Policy Act of 2002 - Amends the Federal Power Act to set forth an energy delivery and production scheme that includes: (1) electric reliability standards; (2) electric utility mergers; (3) market-based rates; (4) transmission interconnections; and (5) open access transmission. Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2002 - Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to: (1) adopt real-time pricing standards; (2) terminate mandatory cogeneration and small power production purchase and sale requirements; and (3) mandate net metering service. Provides for renewable energy and rural construction grants. Sets forth alternative mandatory conditions for hydroelectric relicensing on Federal reservation lands. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish within the Department of Energy (DOE) an Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2002 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to provide permanent DOE contractor indemnification authority and to revise liability limits. Prescribes guidelines for domestic oil production and transportation, including Federal onshore oil and gas leasing programs, and full capacity for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act of 2002 - Prescribes guidelines for expedited approval, construction, and Federal loan guarantees for Alaska natural gas transportation and delivery systems into the contiguous United States. Amends Federal transportation law to mandate increased Federal fleet vehicle fuel efficiency. Establishes the National Motor Vehicle Efficiency Improvement Program to provide assistance for State programs to retire fuel-inefficient motor vehicles. Prescribes guidelines for increased use of alternative and renewable fuels. Federal Reformulated Fuels Act of 2002 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to permit the use of the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund for methyl tertiary butyl ether (MBTE) remediation purposes. Amends the Clean Air Act to revise guidelines pertaining to: (1) water quality protection from fuels; (2) oxygen content requirements for reformulated gasoline; and (3) public health and environmental impacts of fuels and fuel additives. Provides increased funding for: (1) Low-Income Home Energy Assistance; (2) weatherization assistance; and (3) State energy conservation plans. Amends the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to: (1) revise energy performance and management requirements for Federal buildings; and (2) mandate procurement of energy efficient products. Establishes the Federal Energy Bank to make loans to assist Federal agency implementation of energy conservation measures in Federal buildings. Amends Federal housing laws to provide further support for energy efficient, affordable housing, including: (1) FHA mortgage insurance incentives for energy efficient housing; and (2) grants for energy-conserving improvements for assisted housing. Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2002 - Establishes the National Office of Climate Change Response within the Executive Office of the President. Establishes related bodies, including: (1) the Office of Climate Change Technology in DOE to manage an energy technology research and development program that directly supports the Strategy; and (2) the United States Climate Change Response Strategy Review Board. Instructs the Secretary of Commerce to establish the National Greenhouse Gas Database. Establishes the Interagency Task Force on Greenhouse Gas Database as an advisory body. Energy Science and Technology Enhancement Act of 2002 - Sets forth a national energy research, development, demonstration, and technology deployment program that operates as an integral part of the national climate change strategy in partnership with industry, the national laboratories, and institutions of higher learning. Includes within such program: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) fossil energy; (4) nuclear energy; (5) fundamental energy science; and (6) critical energy infrastructure protection research and development. Establishes: (1) a Clean Energy Technology Exports Program to focus upon transferring clean energy technology to countries expected to experience the most significant growth in energy production and associated greenhouse gas emissions over the next 20 years; (2) an International Energy Technology Deployment Program to construct an energy production facility outside the United States to implement specified greenhouse gas reduction; and (3) in the Office of Science and Technology Policy an integrated program for the global change research program. Instructs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) submit to Congress a plan of action for a National Climate Service under the National Climate Program; and (2) initiate a program to develop innovative standards and measurement technologies to calculate greenhouse gas emissions. Mandates establishment of: (1) an integrated ocean and coastal observing system; (2) a global climate change standards and processes research program within the National Institute of Standards and Technology; (3) a National Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Program for regional impacts related to increased greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) a NASA pilot project exploration of remote sensing and other geospatial information in order to forecast a plan for adaptation to coastal zone and land use changes. Instructs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary) to establish national energy research and development advisory boards to exercise external technical review of DOE research and development programs. Creates a coordination and management framework within DOE for civilian science and technology programs, including: (1) an Under Secretary for Energy and Science to serve as the Science and Technology Advisor to the Secretary and monitor the DOE research and development programs; (2) an Assistant Secretary of Science for fundamental DOE science and engineering research functions, including policy and management; (3) a Technology Transfer Coordinator; (4) a Technology Partnership Working Group; (5) a Technology Transfer Infrastructure Program; and (6) appointment of a small business advocate in connection with each National Laboratory. Authorizes the Secretary to establish security enhancement programs for critical energy infrastructure. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Energy Infrastructure Security Program to: (1) provide financial assistance for State security plans against threats to critical OCS energy infrastructure facilities; and (2) support public service or transportation activities needed to maintain the safety and operation of critical energy infrastructure activities.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 November 2001
13 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the extent to which global climate change featured during his time as chairperson of the UN Security Council. [29162/01]
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 2001
Global Climate Change Act of 2001 - Provides for establishment of a number of new Government entities, including: (1) a National Office of Climate Change Action and an integrated program office for the global change research program within the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (2) an interagency climate change action task force to develop a national strategy for, among other things, substantially reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and promoting energy efficiency research and development; and (3) a Science and Technology Assessment Service in the legislative branch. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a comprehensive measurement and verification system for greenhouse gas emissions. Requires the task force to initiate a mandatory emissions reporting system for the industrial, energy-producing, and transportation sectors. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish an atmospheric greenhouse gas monitoring and verification program; (2) conduct research on climate variability in the Asia-Pacific sector; (3) initiate a program for development of innovative greenhouse gas standards and measurement technologies; (4) establish a technology transfer program for emissions reduction and energy efficiency technologies; and (5) conduct regional coastal vulnerability assessments, develop a national coastal adaptation plan, and provide financial assistance. Amends the National Climate Program Act to, among other things: (1) include in the program methods to guide decision making on land use, water hazards, and related issues; (2) extend funding; and (3) require submission to Congress of a plan of action. Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to authorize the Secretary to perform research to develop standards and technology enabling reduced production in the United States of greenhouse gases associated with global warming. Requires the Director to establish a program of research on global climate change standards and processes. Authorizes the Director to: (1) hold a portion of competitions in areas designed to develop and commercialize technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and (2) develop a program to support "green" manufacturing technologies, emphasizing energy efficiency of electric motors. Directs the President to: (1) establish within the Department of Commerce a National Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation Program to address regional impacts; and (2) establish and maintain an integrated ocean and coastal observing system. Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to establish a program to explore the use of geospatial information to address governmental needs to forecast a coastal zone adaptation plan.
European Union · European Commission · 23 October 2001
European Union · European Commission · 23 October 2001
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 2001
Climate Change Risk Management Act of 2001 - Revamps the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the President to develop and implement a national strategy to manage the risks posed by potential climate change whose goal shall be consistent with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Instructs the Secretary of Energy to establish a long-term Climate Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment Program to foster technologies and practices that: (1) reduce or avoid anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases; (2) remove and sequester greenhouse gases from emissions streams; and (3) remove and sequester greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide for a pilot program for financial assistance for qualifying international energy deployment projects; (2) assess the status and readiness (including potential commercialization) of each energy technology and any regulatory or market barriers to deployment; and (3) establish an information clearinghouse to facilitate the transfer and dissemination of the results of federally funded research and development activities being carried out on energy technology. Revises requirements for the national greenhouse gas emissions registry. Establishes in the Department of Energy an Office of Applied Energy Technology and Greenhouse Gas Management.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 2001
Climate Change Tax Amendments of 2001 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to: (1) set forth a permanent tax credit for research and development regarding greenhouse gas emissions reduction, avoidance, or sequestration; and (2) allow a tax credit for qualified investments in greenhouse gas emissions facilities. Expresses the sense of Congress that tax incentives should be available for individuals, organizations, and entities, including (for-profit and non-profit institutions) in order to achieve the broadest response for reduction, avoidance, or sequestration of greenhouse gas emissions, and to ensure that the incentives established by this Act do not advantage one segment of an industry to the disadvantage of another.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 2001
Carbon Sequestration and Reporting Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act to provide for the establishment of the Carbon Advisory Council which shall advise on reporting guidelines for greenhouse gas sequestration from soil carbon and forest management actions, and their potential effects and effectiveness. Amends the Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1990 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements for forest carbon activities on private, State, or Indian lands. Directs the Secretary to provides States with assistance to establish revolving loan programs for forest carbon activities on nonindustrial private forest land. Authorizes Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana to apply for funding from the Bonneville Power Administration for loans for related purposes or for specified fish and wildlife purposes. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to establish a carbon sequestration program, which may include conservation reserve and wetlands reserve lands. Directs the Secretary to carry out four or more carbon monitoring pilot programs.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 2001
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2002 - Makes appropriations for FY 2002 for: (1) the Export-Import Bank of the United States; (2) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; (3) the Trade and Development Agency; (4) expenses of the President in carrying out certain programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (5) various bilateral economic assistance programs for foreign developing countries; (6) certain U.S. military assistance programs for foreign countries; (7) U.S. contributions to certain international financial institutions; and (8) international programs and organizations. Sets forth certain limits and prohibitions on the use of appropriations for: (1) abortions or involuntary sterilizations as methods of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions, or provide any financial incentive to undergo sterilization; (2) assistance to any country not in compliance with United Nations (UN) sanctions against Iraq, unless a specified certification is made to Congress; (3) payment of any U.S. contribution to the UN if the UN imposes any taxation on any U.S. persons; and (4) implementation of the Kyoto Protocol to the United States Framework Convention on Climate Change (which has not been ratified by the Senate). Earmarks funds for: (1) child survival activities or disease programs, including research on, and the prevention and treatment of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); (2) reduction of amounts owed to the United States by certain eligible poor countries; and (3) immunization programs for the prevention, treatment, and control of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS, polio, and malaria through implementation of strategies to improve injection safety.
European Union · European Parliament · 12 July 2001
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 2001
Clean Power Plant and Modernization Act of 2001 - Requires fossil fuel-fired generating units that commence operation before ten years after this Act's enactment to achieve and maintain a specified combustion heat rate efficiency. Authorizes waivers for units that commence operation more than ten years after enactment. Requires units, not later than ten years after enactment, to operate in compliance with new source review requirements under the Clean Air Act. Establishes specified emission limitations for mercury, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides from units based on the respective efficiency standards. Requires units to obtain permits under such Act that require compliance with such standards and limitations. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate: (1) fuel sampling and emission monitoring techniques for use in calculating mercury emission reductions; and (2) regulations concerning disclosure to consumers of unit emissions levels and the transfer of captured or recovered mercury. Qualifies certain solar or geothermal power facilities for the renewable energy tax credit and extends the date by which eligible facilities must have been placed in service. Imposes an excise tax on covered fossil fuel-fired generating units based upon megawatt hour generation to fund the Clean Air Trust Fund established by this Act. Provides for: (1) accelerated depreciation and cost recovery for certain investor-owned units; and (2) annual grants for capital expenditures for new publicly owned units in amounts equal to the depreciation deduction that would be realized by similarly situated investor-owned units. Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to crediting permanent reductions in carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions to the utility sector and owners or operators in any climate change implementation program enacted by Congress and passing on accrued value to utility customers. Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) fund programs and partnerships to demonstrate the commercial viability and environmental benefits of power generation from biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind technologies and from fuel cells; and (2) establish a program to demonstrate the benefits of power generation from clean coal, advanced gas turbine, and combined heat and power technologies. Provides assistance for coal industry and community transition, carbon sequestration activities, and atmospheric monitoring programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 2001
Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 2002 (with specified rescissions, transfers of funds, limitations on obligations and administrative expenses, and liquidations of contract authorizations) for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation; (2) Coast Guard; (3) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (4) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA), including specified amounts for Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) motor carrier safety enforcement at the U.S./Mexico border and for FMCSA U.S./Mexico border safety audits; (5) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (6) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (7) the Federal Railroad Administration; (8) the Federal Transit Administration; (9) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (10) the Research and Special Programs Administration; (11) the Office of Inspector General; and (12) the Surface Transportation Board. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2002 for: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; and (2) the National Transportation Safety Board. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth specified prohibitions, limitations, permissions, and mandates with respect to the use of appropriations under this Act identical or similar to those enacted in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (P.L. 106-69). (Sec. 304) Bars the use of funds in this Act for salaries and expenses of more than 105 political and Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation. (Sec. 310) Sets forth certain requirements prohibiting the Secretary of Transportation from distributing from, and in certain cases directing the Secretary to distribute, the obligation limitation for Federal-aid Highways amounts for specified Federal highway programs. Sets forth specified Federal highway projects in which the obligation limitation for Federal-aid Highways shall not apply. Provides for the redistribution of any unused obligation limitation on Federal-aid Highways amounts to the States. Earmarks specified Federal-aid Highways amounts for FY 2002 for State and Federal border infrastructure construction. (Sec. 312) Bars the use of funds under this Act to establish a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation Scheme and the San Francisco Traffic Separation Scheme. (Sec. 313) Authorizes airports to transfer to the FAA, without consideration, instrument landing systems (along with associated approach lighting equipment and runway visual range equipment) which conform to FAA design and performance specifications and which were purchased with airport development grant funds. (Sec. 316) Bars the use of funds under this Act to compensate in excess of 335 technical staff-years under the federally-funded research and development (R&D) center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY 2002. (Sec. 318) Authorizes certain funds for Alaska or Hawaii ferry boats or ferry terminal facilities to be used to construct new vessels and facilities or to improve existing vessels and facilities, including both the passenger and vehicle-related elements of such vessels and facilities, and for repair facilities. (Sec. 320) Prohibits the use of funds for employee training which: (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official duties; (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emotional response or psychological stress in some participants; (3) does not require prior employee notification of the content and methods to be used in the training and written end of course evaluations; (4) contains any methods or content associated with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or "new age" belief systems; (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or (6) includes content related to human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other than that necessary to make employees more aware of its medical ramifications and the workplace rights of HIV-positive employees. (Sec. 321) Bars the use of funds, unless authorized by Congress, to pay for specified lobbying activities with respect to a Member of Congress or a State legislature. Permits Department of Transportation (DOT) or related agency employees to communicate to Members of Congress or to a State legislature with respect to requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of business. (Sec. 322) Prohibits expenditure of funds made available under this Act by any entity that does not agree to comply with the Buy American Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that entities receiving assistance under this Act should purchase only U.S.-made equipment and products to the greatest extent practicable. Prohibits the use of funds for contracts with persons falsely labeling products as made in America. (Sec. 323) Authorizes the Secretary to reserve up to $18 million of motor carrier safety program grant funds for grants to the States of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, to hire State motor carrier safety inspectors at the United States/Mexico border. (Sec. 326) Authorizes appropriations for expenses of the Amtrak Reform Council for FY 2003. Includes within the duties of such Council the identification of Amtrak routes which are candidates for closure or realignment based on performance rankings developed by Amtrak which incorporate information on each route's fully allocated costs and ridership on core intercity passenger service, and which assume that Federal subsidies for Amtrak will decline from FY 1999 to FY 2002. (Sec. 327) Bars the use of funds in this Act to make a grant unless the Secretary notifies the Committees on Appropriations not less than three full business days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1 million or more is announced by the DOT or its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the FHA other than the emergency relief program; (2) the FAA airport improvement program; or (3) any FTA program other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs. (Sec. 328) Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000 to repeal a provision making additional funds available for FY 2001 through 2003 for the Federal Railroad Administration for certain expenses to enable the James A. Farley Post Office in New York City to be used as a train station and commercial center. (Sec. 329) Prohibits funds in this Act from being made available for planning, design, or construction of a light rail system in Houston, Texas. (Sec. 330) Prohibits funds in this Act from being made available for engineering work related to an additional runway at New Orleans International Airport. (Sec. 331) Prohibits funds appropriated under this Act from being used to issue regulations to implement the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent and ratification. (Sec. 332) Bars the use of funds in this Act to adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide to the FAA without cost building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation, or weather reporting. Provides that such prohibition does not apply to negotiations between the FAA and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on "below-market" rates for such items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control facilities. (Sec. 333) Authorizes States to use allocated highway safety program funds to produce and place highway safety public service messages in television, radio, cinema, print media, and on the Internet in accordance with guidance issued by the Secretary. (Sec. 334) Authorizes Mohall Railroad, Inc. to abandon a specified length of track, which shall not be counted against a certain 350-mile limitation. (Sec. 336) Authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration to provide services to Amtrak for FY 2002 and each fiscal year thereafter until the fiscal year that Amtrak operates without Federal operating grant funds appropriated to it. (Sec. 337) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to replace the high priority project to extend West Douglas Road in Alaska with a high priority project to construct Gastineau Channel Second Crossing to Douglas Island. (Sec. 339) Authorizes the Administrator of the FAA to accept funds from an airport sponsor (including entitlement funds under the Grants-in-Aid for Airports program) for it in order to hire additional staff or obtain the services of consultants with respect to airport projects that will add critical airport capacity to the national air transportation system. Limits the use of such funds only for facilitating the timely processing, review, and completion of environmental activities associated with such projects. (Sec. 340) Replaces high priority projects to construct a passenger ferry facility to serve Southworth, Seattle, Washington, and a Southworth Seattle ferry, with a high priority project passenger only ferry to serve Kitsap County-Seattle, Washington. (Sec. 342) Replaces the high priority project Bull Shoals Lake Ferry in Taney County, Missouri, with the high priority project to construct the Missouri Center for Advanced Highway Safety (MOCAHS). (Sec.343) Requires National Airport Station located at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to be known and designated as the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Station. Requires the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to modify the signs at such station to reflect the redesignation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 2001
Climate Change Strategy and Technology Innovation Act of 2001 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to require the Director of the National Office of Climate Change Response (established in the Executive Office of the President by this Act) to: (1) develop the United States Climate Change Response Strategy; and (2) establish the United States Climate Change Response Interagency Task Force to assist in developing and updating the Strategy and preparing annual reports. Requires the directors of the major national laboratories to annually meet with the President and certify whether U.S. energy technology research and development programs are proceeding consistent with the Strategy and the long-term goal of stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations. Establishes in the Department of Energy: (1) the Office of Carbon Management to plan and manage an energy technology research and development program that directly supports the Strategy and advise the Secretary on climate change-related issues; and (2) the Center for Strategic Climate Change Response to support integrated assessment of alternative climate change response scenarios and Strategy implementation, including designing and carrying out an international carbon dioxide sequestration monitoring and data program. Establishes the United States Climate Change Response Strategy Review Board to review the Strategy and updates to it, the President's progress reports, and national laboratory certifications.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 2001
Condemns the brutal murder of Carlos Caceres, a U.S. citizen, in West Timor. Decries the inadequate sentences given by the Indonesian judicial system to the killers of Caceres and two other United Nations aid workers. Calls on the Indonesian Government to indict and bring to trial the senior military commanders described in a September 1, 2000, statement by that Government as suspects in the mass killings following the August 1999 East Timor referendum. Calls for the President: (1) at every appropriate meeting with officials of the Indonesian Government, to stress the importance of ending the climate of impunity which shields those individuals suspected of perpetrating, collaborating in, or covering up extrajudicial killings, torture, and other human rights abuses, especially senior members of the Indonesian military; and (2) to consider the willingness of such Government to make rapid and substantive progress in judicial reform when determining the level of financial support provided by the United States to Indonesia.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2001
19 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Finance if he has satisfied himself with the preparations for the introduction of the euro; the timescale for measures to be introduced; the measures aimed at creating a climate of confidence and making the euro experience a positive one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14177/01]
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 2001
Forest Resources for the Environment and the Economy Act - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress on forest carbon management in the National Forest System, including its impact upon timber harvests, wildlife habitat, recreation, and forest health. Prescribes guidelines on reporting, monitoring, and verification of carbon storage from tree planting and forest management actions. Directs the Secretary to establish a Carbon and Forestry Advisory Council to: (1) advise on voluntary reporting of greenhouse gas sequestration from forest management actions; (2) estimate the effect of proposed implementation on carbon sequestration and storage; and (3) assist the Secretary in assessing forest vulnerability to climate change. Prescribes guidelines for: (1) the monitoring of forest carbon; and (2) forest carbon cooperative agreements and loan program on specified lands. Instructs the Secretary to establish an assistance program provided through State revolving loan funds to Indian tribes and owners of nonindustrial private forest land to undertake forestry carbon activities. Permits the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana to apply for funding from the Bonneville Power Administration for purposes of funding loans that meet both the objectives of this Act and certain fish and wildlife objectives of the Bonneville Power Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 2001
Carbon Conservation Incentive Act - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to establish a carbon sequestration program (program) to permit owners and operators of eligible land (including conservation reserve and wetlands reserve land that have not received program payments) to enroll in minimum ten-year contracts. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel, which shall develop: (1) criteria for evaluating carbon sequestration practices; and (2) estimates of carbon sequestration rates. Directs the Secretary, through the Extension Service, to conduct educational outreach programs respecting agricultural practices that will increase sequestration of carbon, while preserving participant economic and social well-being. Sets forth program and contract provisions, including cost-sharing and rental payments by the Secretary to participating owners and operators. Directs the Secretary to carry out at least four carbon monitoring pilot programs. States that the program shall be funded from Commodity Credit Corporation funds, and at the option of other agencies, from funds available for climate change initiatives or greenhouse gas emission reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 2001
Clean Power Plant Act of 2001 - Amends the Clean Air Act to require specified emissions limitations on mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from fossil fuel-fired electric generating units with a nameplate capacity of at least 15 megawatts that use a combustion device primarily to generate electricity for sale. Requires quarterly pollutant-specific emission reports for such pollutants and for carbon dioxide (CO2) by unit owners or operators. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish facility-specific emission data. Requires regulations for disclosure of data concerning emissions levels. Directs the Administrator to calculate a generation performance standard for CO2 from covered fossil fuel-fired electric generating units and allocate allowances among such units. Authorizes the carryover and trading of unused allowances and requires surrender to the Administrator of a number of CO2 allowances equal to the total tonnage emitted during the calendar year. Permits the performance standard to be exceeded if the plant has sufficient emissions credits. Imposes an excess emissions penalty and requires units to offset such emissions. Requires regulations concerning transfer of hazards associated with combustion from one medium to another and release of hazardous wastes into the environment. Expresses the sense of Congress concerning crediting permanent CO2 and NOx emissions reductions to the utility sector in any enacted climate change implementation program. Authorizes appropriations for industry and community assistance and development of a carbon sequestration strategy. Requires grants to municipalities in which there are located fossil fuel-fired electric generating units that: (1) provide ten percent or more of the municipality's annual property tax revenue in the last fiscal year ending before this Act's enactment; and (2) cease operation after this Act's enactment. Includes hazardous air pollutants from electric utility steam generating units on a list of such pollutants from major and area sources required under the Clean Air Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 2001
Comprehensive and Balanced Energy Policy Act of 2001 - Establishes: (1) the National Commission on Energy and Climate Change; and (2) the Interagency Working Group on Clean Energy Technology Transfer. Authorizes the States to develop energy infrastructure regional coordination. Mandates periodic reviews of regulations to identify barriers to market entry for emerging energy technologies. Amends the Federal Power Act to establish the Electric Reliability Organization. Establishes the Public Benefits Fund. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize electrification grants for rural and remote communities. Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to mandate a comprehensive Indian energy program. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe disclosure requirements regarding: (1) energy sources used to generate electricity; and (2) specified consumer protections and privacy. Amends the Federal Power Act to require Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to establish: (1) a wholesale electricity market data information system; and (2) wholesale electric energy rates in the western energy market. Prescribes guidelines governing: (1) renewable energy resources; (2) distributed generation facilities; and (3) hydroelectric relicensing. Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) assess cost and performance goals for a national coal-based technology development and applications program; and (2) implement a power plant improvement initiative program. Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 2001 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to revise indemnification and liability guidelines. Sets a deadline for a specified Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas lease sale. Mandates an accelerated research and development program regarding pipeline integrity of natural gas and hazardous liquids. Prescribes guidelines for statutory mechanisms that increase vehicle fuel efficiency or provide vehicle alternatives in order to limit demand for petroleum products by light-duty vehicles. Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise alternative fuel requirements for Federal fleets. Establishes: (1) the Federal Energy Bank; and (2) the High Performance Schools Program. Energy Science and Technology Enhancement Act - Delineates goals for enhanced research and development programs that target: (1) energy efficiency; (2) renewable energy; (3) fossil energy; (4) nuclear energy; and (5) fundamental energy science. Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) establish national energy research and development advisory boards; (2) monitor workforce trends pertaining to skilled technical personnel supporting energy technology industries; (3) establish traineeship grant programs for technically skilled personnel; and (4) develop employee training guidelines to support electric supply system reliability and safety.
Germany · German Bundestag · 16 February 2001