Stories: U.S. Climate Action

This summary provides a concise overview of the American Power Act (APA) released as a discussion draft by Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on May 12, 2010.

This summary provides a concise overview of the American Clean Energy Leadership Act (here in referred to as the ACELA) as reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 17,

This post originally appeared on the National Journal Energy & Environment Blog.

A new ChinaFAQs fact sheet explains China’s carbon intensity target.

While Earth Day’s founders couldn’t have predicted it, acting on climate change has become the country’s great unfinished business.

Wind energy needs stable policy support in the United States in order to keep creating jobs.

This summary provides a concise overview of S. 2877, the Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal Act (herein referred to as CLEARA), as introduced by Senators Cantwell and Collins on December 11, 2009.

Federal legislators should look to the states for some key lessons on cap-and-trade.

An explanation of how WRI conducts analysis of climate and energy proposals before the US Congress.