S.2642 - American Renewable Energy Act of 2008 Sponsor Klobuchar

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Senator Klobuchar
June 6, 2007

It is time to act. It is time to pass an aggressive renewable electricity standard, one requiring that all electricity providers would have to generate or purchase 25 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by the year 2025.

While the States are already heading down the path toward the new ``green economy,'' the Federal Government has not even made it to the trail head. The Federal Government is stuck in the fossil age.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s2642

Introduced in Senate (02/14/2008)
American Renewable Energy Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to require that electric utilities that sell electricity to consumers generate or purchase a specified percentage (increasing from 2% in 2010 to 20% in 2024) of their electricity from renewable resources (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal, ocean, biomass, landfill gas, or incremental hydropower or geothermal energy).

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1. Introduced in Senate (02/14/2008)

Did it pass?

Introducing a bill is one thing.
Getting t passed, another.

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2. parts of it were enacted in other bills which were enacted

for example part of it is in
H.R. 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Enacted — Signed by the President on Oct 3, 2008.

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3. sooo, her bill did not pass

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4. Part of it did

Nt

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5. parts of the language of her bill are in other bills which passed

it is pretty normal for that to happen in Congress.

and yes, she was before her time...fighting an uphill battle