Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (Senate bill, proposed)

Published October 1, 2009

Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry co-sponsored this Senate bill, introduced by Senator Kerry on September 30, 2009. The bill, which has a strong relationship to the House bill H.R. 2454, calls for a greater reduction in the U.S.' greenhouse gas emissions: 20% from 2005 levels of emissions by the year 2020. Click below for fulltext of the bill; summaries by section can be found here.

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