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The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) was an energy bill in the 111th United States Congress (H.R. 2454) that would have established a variant of an emissions trading plan similar to the European Union Emission Trading Scheme. The bill was approved by the House of Representatives on June 26, 2009, by a vote of 219–212.
23 cze 2021 · More than 10 years after that bill — commonly known by the names of its co-authors (then-Rep. Henry Waxman and then-Rep. and now Sen. Ed Markey) — died without getting a vote in the US Senate,...
19 sie 2009 · On June 26, a 1,427-page climate change bill introduced by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Edward Markey (D-MA) passed the House by a narrow margin.
15 maj 2009 · Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide tax refunds from the Climate Change Consumer Refund Account (established by this Act) on a per capita basis to each household.
7 cze 2019 · The American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), commonly referred to as the Waxman-Markey bill, would have established a nationwide greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system with goals...
27 maj 2019 · This paper examines how lobbying spending on the Waxman–Markey bill, the most prominent and promising United States climate regulation so far, altered its likelihood of being implemented.
The Waxman-Markey bill (HR 2454) passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2009, contains the full range of these energy policy dictates. Texas, having an economy tied to energy development and manufacturing, is particularly vulnerable to ad-verse impacts from federal mandates to reduce GHG.