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| Statement of Environment Illinois Program Director, Max Muller: ""Today, Congress took an historic step, toward a new clean energy economy and a healthy future by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act . . . | |
| Global warming could cost corn growers in Illinois $243 million a year, according to a new report by Environment Illinois. Illinois ranks second in the nation for projected corn losses due to global warming. | |
| Illinois's future holds more extreme heat waves, lower Lake Michigan water levels, extreme floods, and reduced agricultural yields unless global warming pollution is cut dramatically and rapidly. These conclusions are contained in a report issued today by 13 federal government science agencies in the most definitive scientific assessment to date of global warming’s impacts on the United States. | |
| Environment Illinois applauded U.S. Representatives Bobby Rush and Jan Schakowsky today for voting today to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) through the House Energy & Commerce Committee. | |
| President Obama will announce today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation will establish a uniform federal standard to reduce global warming pollution from cars and light trucks and improve vehicle efficiency. | |
| U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey today introduced the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454), a comprehensive energy bill. | |
| Environment Illinois is calling on clean energy supporters around Illinois to postpone their Earth Day celebrations for five minutes today and first ask their member of Congress to rebuild the economy with clean energy and stop global warming. | |
| Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee and its Energy & Environment Subcommittee began hearings on a massive clean energy bill in response to President Obama’s call for legislation to rebuild the economy with clean energy and stop global warming. | |
| Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a proposed finding that carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants, which come mostly from burning fossil fuels, are a threat to public health and welfare. | |
| A major draft bill released today by Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Energy & Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) sets the stage for Congress to pass historic energy and global warming legislation, according to Environment Illinois. | |