{"id":528330,"date":"2010-04-15T08:07:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:07:18","slug":"wis-lawmakers-release-new-draft-of-emissions-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528330","title":{"rendered":"Wis. lawmakers release new draft of emissions bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/business\/90759529.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.jsonline.com\/images\/energy.jpg\" width=\"248\" align=\"right\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/04\/14\/17\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Ecoregions_of_Wisconsin_%28EPA%29\">Wisconsin<\/a> lawmakers unveiled a new draft of a bill to control <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Carbon_dioxide\">carbon  <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Air_pollution_emissions\">emissions<\/a> that would ramp up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Renewable_energy\">renewable energy<\/a> and allow the possibility  of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Nuclear_power_reactor\">nuclear reactors<\/a> in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The new bill is a scaled-back version of one discussed late last  year that was criticized for being too broad and costly. Gov. Jim Doyle  (D) called the revised bill &#8220;a good compromise that will bring down  consumer costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new version requires that 10 percent of the state&#8217;s power come  from in-state renewable sources by 2025 and relaxes a moratorium on  building nuclear reactors in the state. It also creates an incentive  program for consumers to use renewable energy products. Among the  changes are the removal of a low-carbon fuel standard and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Greenhouse_gas\">greenhouse gas<\/a>  tailpipe emission standard.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the bill is still too expensive thanks to mandated use  of wind, solar and hydro power. Republicans charged that compliance  costs with the new regulations would exceed $15 billion for  investor-owned utilities.<\/p>\n<p>Some lawmakers are concerned there will not be sufficient time to  review and debate the legislation before the end of the legislative  session on April 22 (Content\/Bergquist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/business\/90759529.html\" >Milwaukee <em>Journal-Sentinel<\/em><\/a>,  April 13). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3288&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3288\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Wisconsin lawmakers unveiled a new draft of a bill to control carbon emissions that would ramp up renewable energy and allow the possibility of nuclear reactors in the state. The new bill is a scaled-back version of one discussed late last year that was criticized for being too broad and costly. Gov. Jim Doyle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}