{"id":755,"date":"2009-08-05T10:33:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T15:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/08\/05\/duke-study-who-will-the-climate-bill-regulate\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T10:33:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T15:33:58","slug":"duke-study-who-will-the-climate-bill-regulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/08\/05\/duke-study-who-will-the-climate-bill-regulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Study: Who Will The Climate Bill Regulate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions about the  American Clean Energy and Security Act is, &#8220;Who will it cover?&#8221; The bill will apply to firms that emit more than 25,000 metric tons per year of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters have  always said that meant the bill would only regulate big polluters. Opponents claimed that small  businesses, schools, churches &#8211; even individuals &#8211; could be subject to new  government rules.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study from Duke University gives us the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that the 25,000-ton threshhold includes <strong>only 1.3 percent  of all U.S. manufacturing facilities <\/strong>&#8212; a fraction of America&#8217;s more than 350,000  sites. However, those few companies are responsible for  82.5 percent of\u00a0 the manufacturing sector&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions. According to Duke&#8217;s David Cooley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Large-scale  polluters are responsible for a supermajority of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions,  so we can get enormous environmental benefits while regulating a small  percentage of firms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bill will also apply to <strong>about half of the country&#8217;s  electric power plants<\/strong>, but almost no farms or commercial buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s not on the list? No  schools. No churches. No individuals.<strong> If you don&#8217;t own\u00a0your own\u00a0smokestack, you  can pretty much count on being exempt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EDF is proud to have provided funding for the  study, which you can <a href=\"http:\/\/nicholas.duke.edu\/institute\/25K%20ton.pdf\">download from the Duke site [PDF].<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common questions about the American Clean Energy and Security Act is, &#8220;Who will it cover?&#8221; The bill will apply to firms that emit more than 25,000 metric tons per year of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases. 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