Energy News: Murkowski, Manchin Join Forces To Modernize Energy Laws – By Marcy Kreiter (IB Times) / Feb 27 2020
KEY POINTS
- The American Energy Innovation Act combines 50 bills handled by the Senate Eenrgy and National Resources Committee
- Environmental groups say the bill does not do enough to address carbon pollution
- The bill also address cyber- and grid security
Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Thursday introduced a massive energy bill that seeks to modernize domestic energy laws and strengthen national security, focusing on new technology to make cars and trucks more fuel efficient.
The 550-page American Energy Innovation Act could hit the Senate floor as early as next week.
The bill addresses carbon pollution and focuses on energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy storage, advanced nuclear power, industrial and vehicle technologies, mineral security, cyber- and grid security and modernization, and workforce development.
“This bill is our best chance to modernize our nation’s energy policies in more than 12 years,” Murkowski said in a press release. “By working together to pass it into law, we can promote a range of emerging technologies that will help keep energy affordable even as it becomes cleaner and cleaner.”
Manchin said the bill makes “a down payment on emissions-reducing technologies, reassert[s] the United States’ leadership role in global markets, enhance[s] our grid security and protect[s] consumers. Importantly, this bill will connect energy-producing communities, including in states like West Virginia and Alaska, to new markets and job opportunities while laying the groundwork for the Department of Energy to advance new and necessary critical emissions-reducing technologies.”
Environmental groups already are complaining the package does not do enough to address climate change and fails to set carbon reduction targets.
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