Senate passes global warming bill
By ConnPolitics.tv Staff on May 5, 2008 | In News, Gov. Jodi Rell | 30 feedbacks »
Hartford (AP) _ The state Senate has given final legislative approval to a bill aimed at reducing the pollution that causes global warming.
Senators voted 35-0 in favor of the legislation and sent it to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. The House of Representatives approved it earlier. If she signs it into law, Connecticut will be the fifth state to adopt mandatory limits on global warming pollution. The state passed legislation back in 2004. But that law, which established benchmarks for air pollution reduction, was voluntary.
The new bill would require total emissions to be capped at 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. It would also require emissions levels to be cut 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. State agencies would be required to adopt policies to meet the new caps.
30 comments
Comment from: Fred [Visitor] 
With Betty Cracker's policies this may be easy to accomplish
1. Most "dirty" industry has left the state, so who is going to notice if a few more factories leave?
2. Many of our young people are leaving the state and going elsewhere for jobs, so less people means less pollution.
3. Since CT is one of the better welfare states, with direct deposit, people will hardly ever need to leave their homes!
Stop chasing rainbows and start solving real problems!
1. Most "dirty" industry has left the state, so who is going to notice if a few more factories leave?
2. Many of our young people are leaving the state and going elsewhere for jobs, so less people means less pollution.
3. Since CT is one of the better welfare states, with direct deposit, people will hardly ever need to leave their homes!
Stop chasing rainbows and start solving real problems!
05/05/08 @ 14:27
Comment from: Josef Stalin [Visitor]
The lie that keeps on taking.....OUR TAX DOLLARS!
05/05/08 @ 15:07
Comment from: Bob [Visitor]
They voted 35 to 0. That is a scary thought. What a bunch of dimwits. You can't know that global warming is manmade without knowing how much is natural. And I'd be willing to bet not one of them has given that a thought. I didn't know we had a bunch of climate experts in the senate.
05/05/08 @ 15:08
Comment from: anonymous [Visitor]
Vote Republican..Send The Democratic Majority with the Liberal Agenda bye bye!!
05/05/08 @ 15:09
Comment from: Josef Stalin [Visitor]
Facts mean nothing. It's all about feeeeeeeeeeeeelings.
05/05/08 @ 15:10
Comment from: Josef Stalin [Visitor]
And they all laughed when I said that we needed a Constitutional “Climate Protection Amendment” to prohibit the government from taking any action to regulate the climate, thus protecting us from these half-baked, insane, onerous and liberty-curtailing legislative acts that will only make us poorer and increase the government’s control over virtually every aspect of our lives.
05/05/08 @ 15:17
Comment from: JEC [Visitor]
Just another money grab. I'm sure the cap on the cost of emissions inspections won't go back to pre 1990 levels.
Global warming/climate change is a scam. The more researchers and acadamia cry about it, the more money they get for bogus research projects. So why all of the libs can take pride in using ethonal to fill their Prius, most of the world can't afford food.
05/05/08 @ 15:18
Comment from: Bones [Visitor]
It won't mean a thing. Only when times are good can you wast efforts on non-sense. Hard times will requre us to burn anything we can or freeze. We will be able to thank the no nuke, no drill and no coal crowd for this as we burn our furniture.
05/05/08 @ 15:19
Comment from: Brian [Visitor]
I feel another tax coming. I would think they would be more concerned as to where did our surplus go. Global warming is happening, but I think it's somewhat out of our control. I'm sure what CT is going to do to stop global warming will have little or no effect at all on the Earth.
05/05/08 @ 15:30
Comment from: Hosed by the system [Visitor]
If this state isnt ready to cut the major cause of our damn pollution CARS & TRUCKS off the friggin road by at least 30%.......it doesnt mean a G.O.D. damn thing....................
05/05/08 @ 15:50
Comment from: Josef Stalin [Visitor]
The new bill would require total emissions to be capped at 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
Being a law, and that there is usually penalties for failure to abide by the law, what are the penalties if Ct. does not meet this requirement and who pays them? And to whom?
05/05/08 @ 16:10
Comment from: Josef Stalin [Visitor]
Have a look at this......
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-4123082535546754758
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=-4123082535546754758
05/05/08 @ 16:19
Comment from: r schier [Visitor]
Ignorance is in full bloom.
These posts serve as
one-stop-shopping to confirm
this fact.
These posts serve as
one-stop-shopping to confirm
this fact.
05/05/08 @ 16:24
Comment from: ABC [Visitor]
Vote Republican!!! End this Global Warming BS once and for all. How can you pass a bill for something that has not EVER been scientifically proven.
That's Ignorance.
That's Ignorance.
05/05/08 @ 16:31
Comment from: anonymous [Visitor]
The Liberals love their Kool Aid and Their Legislator friends need to do something about the real life stuff: high gas prices, high food prices etc and they need to stop listening to Al Gore and Al Franken and believing every word of these two prophets of Liberal BS.
05/05/08 @ 16:48
Comment from: Gunny [Visitor]
Just keep raising taxes and all the polluting industries will be gone. The only thing left will be the Hot emissions from Hartford.
05/05/08 @ 16:55
Comment from: Chicken Little [Visitor]
Guess we should all start holding our breath!??
Maybe we should start communication to these robots in code:
Pollution != Global Warming
typeof(Global Warming) == undefined;
with (taxes) {
FixMyDamnRoad();
}
Maybe we should start communication to these robots in code:
Pollution != Global Warming
typeof(Global Warming) == undefined;
with (taxes) {
FixMyDamnRoad();
}
05/05/08 @ 16:57
Comment from: CTRedSoxfan [Visitor]
Here we go...global warming my you know what! This is made up by the same man who claims to have invented the internet.
Come on you dopey libs-wise up will you? Stop with the phony baloney nonsense of trying to do your parts and really take a look at the WHOLE LARGE Picture instead of the tiny little selfish piece you all look at but claim to be doing it for the better of all.
Of course this is more taxes, we are already being scammed by the emission program in this state-just you wait and see.
Hey Dems/Libs...put your money where your big mouths are...why not send in EXTRA Money to the IRS to cover the taxes for all the programs you want.
Vote Republican-get this no nothings out of there before they can do more damage.
Come on you dopey libs-wise up will you? Stop with the phony baloney nonsense of trying to do your parts and really take a look at the WHOLE LARGE Picture instead of the tiny little selfish piece you all look at but claim to be doing it for the better of all.
Of course this is more taxes, we are already being scammed by the emission program in this state-just you wait and see.
Hey Dems/Libs...put your money where your big mouths are...why not send in EXTRA Money to the IRS to cover the taxes for all the programs you want.
Vote Republican-get this no nothings out of there before they can do more damage.
05/05/08 @ 17:29
Comment from: Independent Observer [Visitor]
I just read where we are in a 10 year normal global cooling cycle. If that is the case why can't there be a normal 10 year warming cycle.
Seems like science and the politicians are not in sync.
Seems like science and the politicians are not in sync.
05/05/08 @ 17:56
Comment from: FRANK BARONE [Visitor]
First, it was California with the green emission laws. Now Connecticut. Stupid is as stupid does! A bunch of politicians and Hollywood Egos, decided that Global warming was real and immenient, and something had to be done about it. Of course no one even bothered to speculate that the last 150 years of recorded weather data is a mere blink of an eye to the weather history of this planet. Now we are finding out that it takes more energy & money to produce 1 gallon of bio-fuel than to produce a gallon of gas. AND that the loss of the crops to Bio-fuels is creating a food shortage in many areas of the world. Good job Al Gore!! Good Job liberals in Hartford. Holy Crap- I can't wait until I retire out of Connecticut!
05/05/08 @ 20:17
Comment from: Sean [Visitor]
Uneducate, religious and willfully ignorant is no way to go through life you climate change deniers.
You should have tried harder in school, then you could afford to not be a disgusting polluting pig.
Keep up your joe-jobs tho, CT needs ditch diggers.
You should have tried harder in school, then you could afford to not be a disgusting polluting pig.
Keep up your joe-jobs tho, CT needs ditch diggers.
05/05/08 @ 20:43
Comment from: Redneck [Visitor]
Ted Turner said that due to Global warming, we 'd soon resort to canabalism... Just how long before I can start eating people?
05/05/08 @ 22:04
Comment from: Redneck [Visitor]
Hey Sean, If I were educated.. I could be a weasel of a senator From Tennesee, live in an energy guzzling mansion, and fly around on a private jet.. Kiss my carbon footprint
05/05/08 @ 22:07
Comment from: Jed [Visitor]
how can carbon dioxide be a devil gas it's what makes life the earth and plants need it
what a fraud the us geological survey conducted says N dakota/Montana has enough oil to last the us 1000 years
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911&from=rss_home
remember people carbon is not a devil gas go back to school and learn what it is just like sodium chloride is not bad it's just "table salt". dont let them fool you with words
what a fraud the us geological survey conducted says N dakota/Montana has enough oil to last the us 1000 years
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911&from=rss_home
remember people carbon is not a devil gas go back to school and learn what it is just like sodium chloride is not bad it's just "table salt". dont let them fool you with words
05/06/08 @ 08:53
Comment from: Jon [Visitor]
Great how much is it going to cost me to buy a whole bunch of echo freindly cars for the worthless state politicains to drive around in? Tell you what why doesn't the senate and the rest of the cronies in the capitol take some of that hard earned money they got from my walet and plant some trees? that will offset the carbon foot print then if they keep their mouths shut for two hours a day we could actually lower the temperature around the state and thus increase my oil bill for heat yet another year. I am all for global warming everybody take the muffler off your car and let's get the temperature up thereby lowering our heating bills. a one degree temperature increase in the next 20 years is probably not going to kill use all chicken littles when albore gets a degree in climatology, stops riding in SUVS and taking private planes and ends mining on his property I will think about it. if you actually knew anything. I would read state of fear by Michael Crichton it is a wonderful book about temperature change using actual facts not a special effects styrofoam glacier use in movies. Idiots!
05/06/08 @ 10:07
Comment from: Right.... [Visitor]
Doesn't anyone have work to do?
Stop complaining about the high cost of everything and get the crap of your desk... take your paycheck, buy some food and shut your pie holes.
Nothing will ever change. You want change... get voted into the senate.. congress...get involved!!!
Stop complaining about the high cost of everything and get the crap of your desk... take your paycheck, buy some food and shut your pie holes.
Nothing will ever change. You want change... get voted into the senate.. congress...get involved!!!
05/06/08 @ 12:28
Comment from: jj [Visitor]
80 percent by 2050
thats easy
there wont be any oil left
or these idiots who voted this bill
thats easy
there wont be any oil left
or these idiots who voted this bill
05/06/08 @ 12:29
Comment from: Bones [Visitor]
People are so much easier to control when they can't afford to travel. Just keep following rest of the sheeple manipulated buy the global warming lie.
05/06/08 @ 14:44
Comment from: JR Ewing [Visitor]
I would like to know which a** clowns supported this bill sounds like everyone except someone who wasnt there.
05/06/08 @ 15:17
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