Budget Office Weighs in On Climate Change Legislation

摘要

As reported in BATE (June 2009), HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, cleared a key panel in the US House of Representatives in May 2009. According to the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO), HR 2454 would raise about US $846 billion for the US government from 2010 through 2019. Most of the money raised - roughly $821 billion - would be funneled into other programs, among them, training programs for workers displaced by the new legislation.