Matching Obama's Clean Energy Call, Boxer Seeks EPA Green Buildings Grants

摘要

Senate environment committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is moving quickly to match President Obama's State of the Union call to boost clean energy investments, introducing a bill to create an EPA grant program to fund efforts to cut buildings' greenhouse gases (GHG) and other air pollution in exchange for "verifiable, additional, and enforceable" emissions cuts obtained through increased water-use efficiency and other measures. Hours before Obama's Jan. 25 speech, Boxer introduced S. 77, which would amend the Clean Air Act to create the Building Pollution Reduction Program under section 105 of the air law, which outlines provisions authorizing EPA to dole out grants for support of air pollution planning and control programs.