Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007
Latest action · Jul 24, 2007 Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-1113.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 12, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 200
Establishes a program for market-driven reduction of GHGs through the use of tradeable allowances. Requires certain covered entities that own or control a source of GHG emissions in the electric power, industrial, and commercial sectors of the U.S. economy to submit to the Administrator, beginning in 2012, one tradeable allowance for every metric ton of GHGs emitted. Requires the Administrator to establish a declining cap on tradeable allowances to reduce GHG emissions over time. Allows tradeable allowances to be sold, exchanged, purchased, retired, borrowed, offset, or otherwise used as permitted by this Act.
Requires the Administrator to establish a program to allow covered entities to earn tradable allowances from developing countries' activities that result in certified emission reductions.
Establishes the Climate Change Credit Corporation to manage tradeable allowances.
Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Climate Technology Financing Board; (2) study technology transfer barriers, best practices, and technology transfer activities at federal laboratories related to the licensing and commercialization of technologies that result in reduced GHG emissions, increased ability to adapt to climate change impacts, or increased sequestration of GHGs; (3) analyze business opportunities available for climate change technologies; (4) establish a nonprofit government sponsored enterprise for providing investment in private sector technologies that show promise for climate change adaptation and mitigation applications; (5) create a program of public-private partnerships for climate innovation; (6) establish a national program to ensure that lessons learned and best practices concerning energy efficiency and GHG emission reductions are available to the public; (7) carry out a program of scientific research on potential abrupt climate change; (8) carry out a Climate Technology Challenge Program to award funding to stimulate innovation in technologies for reducing GHG emissions; (9) establish a program to reduce GHG emissions through deployment of energy efficiency measures by large commercial customers by providing for energy audits; (10) establish, operate, and report on a research and development program focused on advanced once-through fuel cycles, a Nuclear System Modeling project to evaluate the cost, safety, waste management, and proliferation avoidance and resistance of fuel cycles, and an Advanced Diversified Waste-Disposal Research Program; (11) establish a demonstration program to reduce the first-time regulatory costs of the current Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing process incurred by the first applicant using an advanced reactor design; (12) establish a program to demonstrate the effectiveness of retooling an existing vehicle or component manufacturing facility to reduce vehicle GHG emissions and of increasing competitiveness of advanced technology vehicle production facilities; (13) establish guidelines for setting project baselines for reductions of GHG emissions and GHG storage in geological formations; (14) submit a climate change adaptation plan for the United States; and (15) conduct research on the impact of climate change on low-income populations everywhere in the world.
Requires the National Science Foundation (NSF) to: (1) implement a plan to increase and establish priorities for funding research in the adaptation to and mitigation of climate change; and (2) establish a climate change science and technology enhancement program for math and science teachers.
Establishes a National Medal of Climate Stewardship Innovation.
Requires the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to determine the extent to which changes to the patent system are necessary to increase the flow of climate change-related technologies.
Requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish a research program on global climate change standards and processes to provide knowledge on the reduction of GHGs.
Provides for establishment of a joint competitive, merit-based research program to fund low- or zero-emissions transportation proposals.
Requires the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to: (1) establish an interagency panel to establish standards for measurement of sequestered carbon; (2) establish a program on adaptation technologies and assess the climate change technological needs of various regions of the country; (3) perform one national and six regional infrastructure cost assessments to provide estimates of the range of costs anticipated for adaptation to the impacts of climate change.
Cosponsors 11
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 12, 2007 to Jul 11, 2007, with 6 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IL | Barack Obama | Original | Jan 12, 2007 |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Original | Jan 12, 2007 |
| R-AZ | John McCain | Original | Jan 12, 2007 |
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Jan 12, 2007 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Jan 12, 2007 |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Original | Jan 12, 2007 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Jan 26, 2007 | |
| D-DE | Thomas R. Carper | Jan 29, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Jan 30, 2007 | |
| R-MN | Norm Coleman | May 21, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Jul 11, 2007 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 24, 2007Committee on Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-1113.
- May 21, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6390-6391)
- Jan 12, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 12, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
- Jan 12, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S511-514)
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 620 | Climate Stewardship Act of 2007 | Related bill | Feb 7, 2007 |
| HR 4226 | Climate Stewardship and Economic Security Act of 2007 | Related bill | Apr 25, 2008 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural education
- Agricultural extension work
- Agricultural pollution
- Agricultural research
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Air pollution control
- Air travel
- Aircraft engines
- Alcohol as fuel
- Alternative energy sources
- Aquifers
- Atmosphere
- Auditing
- Automobile engines
- Automobile industry
- Automobile tires
- Awards, medals, prizes
- Biological research
- Biomass energy
- Business intelligence
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon dioxide
- Cellulose
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Commercial aircraft
- Commercialization
- Competitive bidding
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consultants
- Cost accounting
- Data banks
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Energy
- Developing countries
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric power production
- Elementary and secondary education
- Emissions trading
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Energy efficiency
- Energy research
- Engineering
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental economics
- Environmental law enforcement
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Environmental technology
- Executive reorganization
- Farm lands
- Farmers
- Federal aid to air pollution control
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to research
- Federal employees
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fluorocarbons
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Fuel cells
- Fuel consumption
- Geology
- Government and business
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publications
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Hydrocarbons
- Hydrogen
- Infrastructure
- Intellectual property
- International Affairs
- International law
- Inventories
- Joint ventures
- Laboratories
- Law
- Legislation
- Licenses
- Manufacturing industries
- Marketing
- Mathematics
- Mercury
- Methane
- Motor vehicle pollution control
- National Science Foundation
- Natural gas
- Nitrogen oxides
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nuclear energy research
- Nuclear fuels
- Nuclear power plants
- Ozone layer depletion
- Patents
- Petroleum industry
- Pollution measurement
- Poverty
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public-private partnerships
- Radioactive wastes
- Remote sensing
- Research and development
- Research and development facilities
- Research grants
- Revolving funds
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientific education
- Social Welfare
- Space activities
- Standards
- Students
- Sulphur
- Sulphur dioxide
- Teacher education
- Technological innovations
- Technology assessment
- Technology transfer
- Transboundary pollution
- Transportation and Public Works
- Transportation research
- Trucks
- Underground storage
- Water Resources Development
- Wind power
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