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SF 192 Senate Long Description

"Global Warming Mitigation Act of 2007"; defining terms; establishing a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target by providing a goal to reduce state greenhouse gas emissions to a certain level by a certain date; requiring the commissioner of the pollution control agency (PCA) to adopt rules to establish a greenhouse gas reporting system for reporting statewide greenhouse gas emissions or join an existing system; requiring the PCA and the department of commerce commissioners to provide a plan to achieve reductions, providing a cap and trade system to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, establishing a fossil fuel use reduction fund; prohibiting net increase from new power plants, exception; requiring the public utilities commission (PUC) to establish a cost estimate of future carbon dioxide regulation on electricity generation; providing for enforceability
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