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National Legislative Actions From the Past Session
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Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008
- Expansion of food nutrition and assistance programs and country-of-origin labeling for meat and produce

- Accelerates the commercialization of advanced biofuels, including cellulosic ethanol, encourage the production of biomass crops, and expand the current Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Program
- Provides $1 billion to fund renewable energy and bioenergy technologies
- Farm program safety net expanded and revised, farm conservation and crop insurance programs put into place
- Provides monies for food assistance in underdeveloped countries
Climate Security Act of 2008
- Requires the EPA Administrator to establish a greenhouse gas registry and to set forth emission allowances for 2012-2050 with a declining cap on GHGs
- Establishes a domestic offset program to sequester GHGs
- Establishes new qualifying levels and requirements of Energy Star certification for retail carbon offsets
- Provides for the allocation and distribution of emission allowances to states and facilities on the basis of emission reductions, energy savings, state programs than exceed federal targets, low-income home energy assistance programs, and potential carbon dioxide targets
- Require the President to establish an interagency group to determine whether foreign countries have addressed GHGs
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Energy security
- Increased CAFE standards. Automakers are required to boost fleetwide gas mileage to 35 mpg by 2020. This applies to all passenger automobiles, including "light trucks."
- Required vehicle technology and transportation electrification. Incentives for the development of plug-in hybrids
- Taxpayer funding for increased production of biofuels. The Energy Act further specifies that 21 billion gallons of the 2022 total must be derived from non-cornstarch products (e.g. sugar or cellulose).
Energy savings
- Revises standards for appliances and lighting
- Requires roughly 25 percent greater efficiency for light bulbs, phased in from 2012 through 2014
This effectively bans the sale of most current incandescent light bulbs.
- Requires roughly 200 percent greater efficiency for light bulbs, or similar energy savings, by 2020
- New initiatives for promoting conservation in buildings and industry
- Requires all lighting in Federal buildings to use Energy Star products
- New standards and grants for promoting efficiency in government and public institutions
- Taxpayer funding of research and development of solar energy, geothermal energy, and marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy technologies
- Green jobs - creation of a training program for "Energy efficiency and renewable energy workers"
- Energy transportation and infrastructure, new initiatives for highway, sea and railroad infrastructure
- Smart grid - modernization of the electricity grid to improve reliability and efficiency
Water Resources Development Act (read the bill)
- Authorizes and provides for specified water resources development and conservation projects
- Implements projects for navigation, environmental restoration, ecosystem restoration, hurricane and storm damage reduction, and flood damage reduction
- Addresses public access to water resource and related water quality data
- Recommends a framework for a long-term program of wetlands protection, conservation and restoration in coastal Louisiana
- Allows pre-construction assistance to state and local governments for remediation, environmental restoration or reuse of specified areas
