House Energy Committee floats third in a series of climate change white papers
Via ASME’s Capitol Update.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has released the third in its series of Climate Change Legislation Design White Papers as the next step in the legislative process leading to enactment of a mandatory, economy-wide climate change program. In a letter to Committee members, Chair John D. Dingell (D-MI) observed that “a comprehensive national approach to climate change will be most effective when all levels of government – Federal, State, Tribal and local – play active roles.” Read the Chairman’s letter.
Entitled Appropriate Roles for Different Levels of Government, the 25-page white paper explores key factors that the Committee will need to consider and balance as it constructs a national greenhouse gas control program which rationalizes the roles of different levels of government.
Those factors include:
- The global effect of greenhouse gas emissions;
- The effect on the level and cost of national greenhouse gas reductions;
- The efficient use of government and societal resources;
- The benefit of States, Tribes and localities as laboratories;
- Differing local circumstances;
- The burden on interstate commerce;
- Imposition of costs on other States; and,
- Stakeholder needs.
For more information about the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s
Legislative Design Papers, and to review this recently released paper,
please visit http://energycommerce.house.gov/Climate_Change/.