Political Quotes

“I would like to explain the purposes of the amendment I have filed today with Senators Klobuchar and Snowe to the greenhouse gas registry provisions of the Climate Security Act. This amendment attempts to clarify the relationship between the greenhouse gas registry provisions in the Climate Security Act, and existing law requiring greenhouse gas reporting. The existing law is a provision that I included in the fiscal year 2008 omnibus appropriations legislation, Public Law 101-161. The fiscal year 2008 omnibus appropriations legislation requires the Administrator of EPA to do the following: publish a draft rule not later than 9 months after the date of enactment of this act, September 26, 2008, and a final rule not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this act, June 26, 2009, to require mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions above appropriate thresholds in all sectors of the economy of the United States. Thus, under existing law, by June 2009, EPA must publish a final rule requiring mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. Sections 101 and 102 of the Climate Security Act build on these provisions in existing law. The Administrator of EPA must complete a new rulemaking within 2 years of enactment of the Climate Security Act.”