26 In Rabbit Days

OMG i’m soooooo srry i totally spaced cuz it wuz hot and i was outta drugz or rather my GF was outta drugz so i (natch’) wz lkwz…
Anyway, look! I has chemtrailz:

Chemzajuly [The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden]

Hey, y’all wanna get a little informed vis-a-vis what our charming 111th Congress is up to? I know many share my sentiments in wishing you would. Ergo,

What\'s Congress Doing These Days? [Know Your National Legislature]

A quick introduction to two (2) of my long-time fave websites (esp for W2.0 sites), Govtrack.US and OpenSecrets.Org.

For ease and comfort in legislative transparency, we recommend:

http://www.govtrack.us

http://www.opensecrets.org

http://www.sourcewatch.org/

App for Facebook – Laws I Like

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H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

111th Congress

This is a bill in the U.S. Congress originating in the House of Representatives (“H.R.”).

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Waxman-Markey_Climate_Bill

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2454

5/15/2009–Introduced.
American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 – Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to establish a combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard that requires utilities to supply an increasing percentage of their demand from a combination of energy efficiency savings and renewable energy (6% in 2012, 9.5% in 2014, 13% in 2016, 16.5% in 2018, and 20% in 2021-2039). Provides for: (1) issuing, trading, banking, retiring, and verifying renewable electricity credits; and (2) prescribing standards to define and measure electricity savings from energy efficiency and energy conservation measures.
Amends the Clean Air Act (CAA) to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) set forth a national strategy to address barriers to the commercial-scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration; (2) establish an approach to certify and permit geologic sequestration; and (3) promulgate regulations to minimize the risk of escape to the atmosphere of carbon dioxide injected for purposes of geological sequestration. Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator to promulgate regulations for sequestration wells.
Designates carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from a chemical manufacturing process at an industrial stationary source, perfluorocarbons, and nitrogen trifluoride as GHGs and establishes a carbon dioxide equivalent value for each gas. Prohibits any person from manufacturing, introducing into interstate commerce, or emitting a significant quantity of certain fluorinated gas that is generated as a byproduct during the production or use of another fluorinated gas.
Requires the Administrator to establish specified emission allowances (annual tonnage limits) for: (1) each of 2012-2049; and (2) 2050 and thereafter. Provides for the establishment and distribution of compensatory allowances for the destruction and conversionary use of fluorinated gases and the nonemissive use of petroleum-based or coal-based liquid or gaseous fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas as a feedstock.
Phases in prohibitions against covered entities (including electricity sources, fuel producers and importers, industrial gas producers and importers, geological sequestration sites, industrial stationary sources, industrial fossil fuel-fired combustion devices, natural gas local distribution companies, nitrogen trifluoride sources, algae-based fuels, and fugitive emissions) exceeding allowable emission levels. Requires covered entities to demonstrate compliance through: (1) holding emission allowances (including international emission or compensatory allowances) at least as great as attributable emissions (as specified); or (2) using offset credits. Sets forth penalties for noncompliance.
Provides for trading, banking and borrowing, auctioning, selling, exchanging, transferring, holding, or retiring emission allowances.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain low income taxpayers a refundable energy tax credit to compensate such taxpayers for reductions in their purchasing power, as identified and calculated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), resulting from regulation of GHGs.
Requires: (1) the Administrator to implement the Energy Refund Program to give low-income households a monthly cash energy refund equal to the estimated loss in purchasing power resulting from this Act; (2) the Secretary of State to oversee distributions of allowances from the International Clean Technology Account; (3) the President to establish within the United States Global Change Research Program a National Climate Change Adaptation Program; (4) the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) a National Climate Service; (5) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to publish a strategic action plan to assist health professionals in preparing for and responding to the impacts of climate change; (6) the President to develop a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy; and (7) the Secretary of State to establish an International Climate Change Adaptation Program.

So there’s that.

Oh Yeah! It’s fully on now; They®™ suspended Thee Mad Turk Formerly Known As Ali 0’s TheirT00b®™ account!

Ali 0tis – Akbar And Jeff Go To Abu Ghraib

It’s nice to have a fresh windmill to tilt in the summertime, eh?

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