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International Clean Energy Technologies Deployment and Global Energy Markets Investment Act of 2007
=Senate Number 2155= =**Summary Of The Bill -**= Click Here for [|Full Text]. Picture Credit- http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/2245399905/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joefreeman/2929071005/ Purpose- To promote efficiant energy and to reduce greenhouse gasses in countries around the world. Emerging Countries like China, India, and many South American countries do not have laws that control pollution. Also many of these countries are very poor and they will not spend money to develop systems to stop pollution. If we do not help them we will suffer from their actions. It also promotes the research and developement of new energy technologies in the united states that can be exported to other countries. For example money may be loaned to a company like ABB who is working to cut engery use in lighting by 30%. Money may be used to partner with a Middle Eastern Company like Masdar that is working to build the World's first Carbon Neutral City. The money could be used at Exxon Mobil to find tecnologies that decrease the global energy demand by 2030 including population growth.
 * Senator Robert Byrd introduced bill. He is a Democrat from West Virginia.**
 * A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to encourage the development of clean energy technologies for deployment in markets abroad, to assist the Department of Energy's promotion of research and development of clean and efficient energy systems, to encourage the Department of Energy and other Federal agencies to work together to improve the advancement of sustainable energy use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and for other purposes.**
 * Reason/purpose for the bill-**

Senator Byrd being from West Virginia is interested in energy. West Virginia is one of the largest producers of coal in the United States and he is interested in seeing coal continue as an energy source. Coal releases a lot of pollution but is very plentiful so any technology that can be developed that cuts pollution from coal will help save jobs in West Virginia. it also will benefit the World if technologies can be developed that cut down greenhouse gasses that are released as a result to burning coal and other fossil fuels. The bill also promotes other energy technologies like solar and wind that are clean and will always be here.


 * History of this issue. Why is this important? Who does this affect?-**

In 1992 H.R.776 was passed to promote energy efficiantcy in buildings across the United States. In the late eighties and early nineties we as a country started to recognize that we were running out of current energy products(Mainly Fossil Fuels). Therefore energy savings became important. Saving energy is important even more so today as the world population grows and we use up the limited resources the Earth has. We will eventually run out of current energy sources and this bill helps promote the development of other sources so that everyone can benefit. It also promotes the reduction of pollution another by-product of a growing world population How To Make a solar panel.media type="youtube" key="qYeynLy6pj8" height="344" width="425" Bibliography
 * Cooper, M. H. (1996, November 1). Global warming. CQ Researcher, 6, 961-984. Retrieved December 2, 2008, from CQ Researcher Online, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1996110100.Book
 * World Book. "Robert Byrd." __World Book__. 2008 ed. 2008.

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