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The Facts on Climate Change :: April 16, 2007
Legislation
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Read more on climate change legislation authored by Science and Technology Committee Members.
H.R. 364 - Establishment of an "Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy"
Sponsor: Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN)
This bill would establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) within the Department of Energy. The goal of ARPA-E is to reduce the amount of energy the United States imports from foreign sources by 20 percent over the next 10 years by:
- Promoting revolutionary changes in the critical technologies that would promote energy independence;
- Turning cutting-edge science and engineering into technologies for energy and environmental application; and
- Accelerating innovation in energy and the environment for both traditional and alternative energy sources and in energy efficiency mechanisms to decrease the Nation's reliance on foreign energy sources.
H.R. 906 - The Global Change Research and Data Management Act
Sponsor: Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO)
This bill would:
- Provide for the continuation and coordination of a comprehensive observation and research program, which will assist the nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to the effects of natural and human-induced processes of global change.
- Establish climate and other global change data management and archiving as federal agency missions, and establish federal policies for managing and archiving climate and other global change data.
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