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Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202.224.6342
Fax: 202.224.1100
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Raleigh Office:
310 New Bern Avenue
Suite 122
Raleigh, NC 27601
Ph: 919.856.4630
Toll Free: 866.420.6083
Fax: 919.856.4053
Salisbury Office:
225 North Main Street
Suite 304
Salisbury, NC 28144
Ph: 704.633.5011
Toll Free: 866.420.6084
Fax: 704.633.2937
Western Office:
401 North Main Street
Suite 200
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Ph: 828.698.3747
Fax: 828.698.1267
Eastern Office:
306 South Evans Street
Greenville, NC 27835
Ph: 252.329.1093
Fax: 252.329.1097
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Press Releases
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DOLE, COLLEAGUES INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
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October 18th, 2007 - Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole today joined Sens. Joseph Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) in introducing America’s Climate Security Act (ACSA). The bill uses a market-driven approach – not big government and tax increases – to make our air cleaner. Dole’s office has worked for several months to help craft the bill.
ACSA encourages American businesses to take leadership and come up with new technologies to reduce their emissions, and it helps lead to alternative sources of energy, thereby reducing our dependence on oil from unstable parts of the world. The Act also provides businesses with certainty to make investments for the future. Additionally, this bill offers new economic opportunities for all businesses, especially the agriculture sector, by rewarding U.S. farmers for practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“North Carolina has many natural treasures, from our mountains to our coast, and we must do our part to make our air cleaner and be good stewards of the earth for future generations,” said Dole. “The solution to the serious problem of climate change is not inaction. This is a responsible, market-driven approach that strengthens our economy, competitiveness and security.”
“This is a bipartisan breakthrough on global warming that takes us a giant step closer to a historic vote in the United States Senate,” said Larry Schweiger, President and CEO, National Wildlife Federation. I commend Senator Lieberman and Senator Warner for drafting a strong bill to protect wildlife from global warming. And I commend Senator Dole for cosponsoring the legislation and adding her support to the call for action after a careful and thoughtful review of the issues.”
“The momentum has never been greater and the path forward has never been clearer,” said Steve Cochran, National Climate Campaign Director, Environmental Defense. “Senator Dole deserves real credit for recognizing the need for action and bringing her vital support to an approach that promises to deliver environmental and economic results.”
“America’s Climate Security Act is a strong starting point for climate action in the Senate,” said Katherine D. Skinner, executive director of The Nature Conservancy. “Climate change poses an enormous challenge to conservation on the ground here in North Carolina. Conservation organizations will be called on to manage for changing conditions, such as rising sea levels on the coast, that will increase the stress on a vast array of species and ecosystems. Senator Dole’s co-sponsorship of this bill is important recognition of the severe impacts climate change will have on our state.”
ACSA is projected to reduce total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 19 percent below the 2005 level in 2020 and by as much as 63 percent below the 2005 level in 2050. ACSA controls compliance costs by allowing companies to trade, save, and borrow emission allowances, and by allowing them to generate credits when they induce non-covered businesses, farms, and others to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions or capture and store greenhouse gases.
The Act invests set-aside emissions credits and money raised by the auction of such allowances in advancing several important public policies, including, but not limited to:
- Deploying advanced technologies and practices for reducing emissions;
- Protecting low- and middle-income Americans from higher energy costs;
- Keeping good jobs in the United States; and
- Mitigating the negative impacts of any unavoidable global warming on low- and middle-income Americans and wildlife.
In July 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that if the U.S. achieves emissions reductions of the levels mandated by ACSA, then – making conservative assumptions about the pace of emissions reductions in the rest of the world – the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will remain below 500 parts per million (ppm) at the end of this century. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, keeping the concentration below 500 ppm will avoid a high risk of global warming.
Other cosponsors of ACSA are Sens. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).
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25th - Dole Announces $350,000 for Levine Children’s Hospital
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25th - Dole Announces $250,000 for UNC-Wilmington Nursing School
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25th - Dole Announces $200,000 for WakeMed Emergency Operations and Regional Call Center
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25th - Dole Announces $700,000 for UNC-ECU Program in Racial Disparities and Cardiovascular Disease
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25th - Dole Announces $100,000 for Eastern North Carolina Metabolic Institute
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24th - Dole Voices Strong Support of Thomas Schroeder’s Nomination to Serve as U.S. District Judge for N.C. Middle District
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18th - current Press Release
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18th - Senate Approves Dole Amendment to Support National Cord Blood Center
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18th - Dole, Burr Announce $13 Million for National Textile Center
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18th - Dole, Burr Announce $150,000 for Crime Lab Equipment
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18th - Dole Announces $250,000 for Charlotte Gang of One Program
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18th - Dole, Burr Announce $150,000 for Improvements to Law Enforcement Communications in Concord, Kannapolis, Cabarrus County
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16th - Dole Announces that N.C. Sheriffs to Partner with Federal Immigration Officials to Identify, Apprehend and Remove Criminal Illegal Aliens
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5th - Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Bill to Require Report on Iraq Redeployment Planning from Administration
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