Legislative Background
Recent Action on Climate Change
Climate policy has evolved gradually in the United States since 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) outlined a global response to climate change. Clinton Administration Actions. In 1993, President Bill Clinton proposed measures to stabilize U.S. emissions at 1990 levels by the end of the year 2000. The plan called for voluntary actions by industry, utilities, and other large-scale energy users. It stressed energy-efficiency upgrades through new building codes in residential and commercial sectors and other improvements in energy-generating or energy-using technologies. In December 1997, the Senate passed a resolution stating that it would not…
