Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts and Senator Barbara Boxer of California proposed the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733) in September 2009. The Kerry-Boxer bill includes a cap-and-trade programme to cut emissions 20% by 2020 and 83% by 2050. The bill does not contain a renewable energy or energy-efficiency portfolio standard. But it does call for greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the entire economy, carbon dioxide storage, efficiency standards for buildings, and climate change adaption programmes.
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