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Friends of the Earth issued a statement criticizing the Lieberman-Warner substitute amendment, arguing that while it improves mass transportation funding and citizen rebates, it weakens emissions caps and fails to meet scientific requirements to avoid catastrophic warming.

This World Resources Institute analysis assesses the potential net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions relative to 2005 U.S. levels that could be achieved by three pollution reduction proposals in the 111th Congress: the American Power Act (APA), the Carbon Limits and Energy for America’s Renewal Act (CLEARA), and the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA). The analysis evaluates these proposals across three scenarios: emissions caps only, caps plus complementary requirements, and a range of potential additional reductions.

This analysis assesses greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions under Title III of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACESA), comparing three scenarios based on pollution caps, complementary requirements, and additional potential reductions against 2005 levels.

This fact sheet assesses potential greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions resulting from the Waxman-Markey Discussion Draft (WM-DD) released on March 31, 2009, across three different scenarios ranging from basic pollution caps to the inclusion of all complementary requirements and additional potential reductions.