City of Baltimore - File #: 13-0108R

• File #: 13-0108R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for Federal Action - Enforce the Clean Air Act to Combat Climate Change
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/8/2013
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 4/8/2013
• Title: Request for Federal Action - Enforce the Clean Air Act to Combat Climate Change FOR the purpose of reaffirming that climate change is not an abstract problem for the future, or one that will only affect far-distant places, but rather climate change is happening now, we are causing it, and the longer we wait to act, the more we lose and the more difficult the problem will be to solve; and urging the Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Bob Perciasepe, and President Barack Obama, to move swiftly to fully employ and enforce the Clean Air Act to do our part to reduce carbon in our atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Brandon M. Scott, Carl Stokes, James B. Kraft, Nick Mosby, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Sharon Green Middleton, Edward Reisinger, William "Pete" Welch, Robert Curran, Bill Henry, Warren Branch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/8/2013	0	City Council	Introduced
4/8/2013	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
4/8/2013	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmembers Clarke and Scott


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Request for Federal Action - Enforce the Clean Air Act to Combat Climate Change

FOR the purpose of reaffirming that climate change is not an abstract problem for the future, or one that will only affect far-distant places, but rather climate change is happening now, we are causing it, and the longer we wait to act, the more we lose and the more difficult the problem will be to solve; and urging the Acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Bob Perciasepe, and President Barack Obama, to move swiftly to fully employ and enforce the Clean Air Act to do our part to reduce carbon in our atmosphere to no more than 350 parts per million.
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WHEREAS, the decade from 2000 to 2010 was the warmest on record, and 2005 and 2010 tied for the hottest years on record.

WHEREAS, the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is approximately 392 parts per million (ppm).

WHEREAS, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, Dr. James Hansen, stated in 2008: “If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm.

WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency determined that current and future greenhouse gas concentrations endanger public health, and according to the Global Huma...