GreenSource article review: Combating Climate Change
Posted by Bryan Lauer, LEED AP in GoGreen on 23-08-2009
The article being reviewed was written by Joann Gonchar, AIA
If you have yet to hear about “cap and trade”, prepare yourself, as our Government has approved a bill known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES). This bill will establish a type of “cap and trade” method which sets limits on greenhouse-gas emissions (carbon dioxide and 5 additional heat-trapping gases). This bill was created for the purpose of reducing emissions 3% from 2005 levels by 2012. ”The required reductions would surge up to 17 percent by 2020, and to 83 percent by mid-century.”
Refining sources, utilities, and other industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions is who the bill would apply to. The bill would not be directed toward individual commercial buildings.
What does all this mean? It means the government is trying to save the world by reducing the deadly affects carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases cause. To learn more about these deadly gases click here: Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
