Global Climate Change: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate and the Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs of the Committee on Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session on Global Climate Change, the Admiistration's Compliance with Recent Statutory Requirements, May 20, 1999, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 176 pages |
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Page 36 - FV 2000 Program Highlights The DOE Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program utilizes the unique multidisciplinary facilities of the DOE National Laboratories and supports research and infrastructure at these Laboratories, universities, and other research institutions With the other USGCRP agencies, a new focus in FY 2000 is the Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative (ACPI), which will integrate the frontiers of computational science and climate science to accelerate progress in climate...
Page 39 - Climate change is likely to have wide-ranging and mostly adverse impacts on human health, with significant loss of life.
Page 139 - ... (b) In carrying out the provisions of the preceding subsection the Administrator is authorized to — (1) collect and make available, through publications and other appropriate means, the results of and other information...
Page 152 - Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs Committee on Government Reform and Oversight US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr.
Page 28 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittees, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the Department of Energy's FY 2000 budget request related to Climate Change.
Page 78 - December 1997. or thereafter, which would- (A) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period...
Page 140 - Improvements in nonregulatory strategies and technologies for preventing or reducing multiple air pollutants, including sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals, PM-10 (particulate matter), carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide, from stationary sources, including fossil fuel power plants. Such strategies and technologies shall include improvements in the relative cost effectiveness and long-range implications of various air pollutant reduction and nonregulatory control strategies such as energy...
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Page 32 - For example, the cost of electric power from wind turbines in 1980 ranged from $0.30— $0.40 per kilowatt-hour (kWh). Through aggressive R&D by EERE and its industry partners on wind turbine aerodynamics, materials development and computer-aided design, we have been able to reduce the costs to between $0.04 and $0.06 per kWh. At this price, wind systems are entering the marketplace, expanding from the early California windfarms to include States ranging from Vermont to Alaska and from Minnesota...