Campopiano / 1 Senator Prebilic Cole

S.B.________
A BILL

To mandate that all corporations with over 150 employees reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by twenty percent
by the year 2020.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This act may be cited as the Economical Emissions Act of 2015.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
1) Ocean temperatures have risen by nearly 1.5F since the year 1880.
2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earths atmosphere have reached 400.57 parts per million.
3) The average size of glaciers has decreased, coinciding with rising global temperatures.
4) Nineteen of the twenty hottest years on record occurred in the past two decades, with 2012 being the hottest year
on record in the continental United States.
5) Rising temperatures can lead to more smog, longer allergy seasons, and an increased incidences of extreme
weather-related injuries.
6) The planet is warming, and over the past half century, this warming has been driven primarily by human activity
predominantly the burning of fossil fuels.
7) Impacts related to climate change are evident across regions and in many sectors important to societysuch as
human health, agriculture and food security, water supply, transportation, energy, ecosystems, and othersand are
expected to become increasingly disruptive throughout this century and beyond.
8) The climate is rapidly changing with disruptive impacts, and that change is progressing faster than any seen in the
last 2,000 years.
9) Climate change impacts many things over time like health, the increase of the spread of disease, and economic
well being.
10) Climate change also greatly impacts the environment, causing raging wildfires, lasting droughts, and devastating
storms.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) The Economical Emissions Act of 2015 shall mandate that all companies and corporations with over 150
employees reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by twenty percent by the year 2020. Companies and corporations
with over 150 employees must enroll their business in an eco-friendly licensing process. This establishes a basis as to
how they shall further conduct their businesses to please this carbon emissions limit enacted by the federal
government.
B) The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shall enforce the Environmental Emissions Act for
which funding will be provided by the taxation from the environmentally-friendly licensing certification course. A
fine of five percent of the companys net gross must be presented up front in order to qualify for eco-certification.
Funding and staff shall be provided by the federal government from which they shall hire workers from the various
environmental agencies around the United States.
C) Contains a three-strike policy in which offenders have three chances to meet their biannually allotted emissions
or be apprehended according to law. On the first offense, violators are given a warning. On the second offense, a fine
against the company resulting in 250,000 dollars shall be enacted. On the third offense, a second, larger fine of one
million dollars shall be filed against the offending company for noncompliance with federal law. Further refusal to
meet biannual carbon emission requirements on three accounts will result in a legal taxation of offending corporation
and a reduction in percentage of their pay per capita. Incentive for this enactment will be to create a safer, healthier
environment to have for the many future generations of this earth as well as the promise of less environmental-borne
illnesses. Enactment would take place on January 1, 2016 with the first emissions summary taking place in the third
quarter of 2020.