Statement: USCAP Releases Recommendations for Climate Legislation

 - This statement was issued upon the release of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership's Blueprint for Legislative Action. -

Statement of Eileen Claussen
President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

January 15, 2009

USCAP has spent the last 2 years and literally thousands of hours crafting the Blueprint for Legislative Action and I believe the stars are aligned as never before for swift action.  We must not squander this opportunity.  We can create an environmentally effective and economically viable climate policy for this country – in fact, we must.

• Read the summary or full document of A Blueprint for Legislative Action. 
• View the press conference announcing the Blueprint.
• Read Eileen Claussen's testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee regarding the USCAP recommendations.