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Global Warming Response Act
Our Position: support
Bill Number: SB2220
Sponsor: Don Harmon
Legislative Session: 95th General Assembly 2008
The world's scientists have formed a near unanimous chorus, warning that pollution primarily caused by burning fossil fuels are causing the temperatures of the earth to rise. Warning signs of global warming are being discovered and reported throughout the world. Illinois is the 7th largest contributor of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) pollution in the U.S. and the largest in the Midwest. Recently, IL has signed the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord along with several other Midwestern states and Manitoba to reduce our global warming emissions as a region. The strategies to reduce GHG emissions outlined in SB 2220 are necessary to achieve the broad goals established for the region, which requires that we achieve 1990 GHG emission levels by 2020, but they will also put Illinois businesses in a prime position to take advantage of the shift in the world economy to low carbon energy technologies.
Status
Action Needed
Contact your Senator and tell them to cosponsor SB 2220
More information
Please read our fact sheet
For specific information on the impacts of global warming on the Great Lakes please visit our partner organization Union of Concerned Scientists.
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