Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§13381 Report

Title 42 › CHAPTER 134 — ENERGY POLICY › SUBCHAPTER VII — GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE › § 13381

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

By October 24, 1994, the Secretary must send Congress a report. The report must look at whether the U.S. can stabilize greenhouse gas emissions by 2005 and what that would mean for the economy, energy, people, the environment, competition, and jobs; review chapter 9 of the 1991 National Academy of Sciences report and give benefit-and-cost analyses of its recommendations and how the U.S. compares to other countries; study the general feasibility of cutting emissions; evaluate a 20% cut in CO2 from 1988 by 2005; and review the likely effects of policies needed to meet any U.N. climate agreement obligations.

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Title 42, §13381

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Not later than 2 years after October 24, 1992, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress that includes an assessment of— (1)

(2)the recommendations made in chapter 9 of the 1991 National Academy of Sciences report entitled “Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming”, including an analysis of the benefits and costs of each recommendation;

(3)the extent to which the United States is responding, compared with other countries, to the recommendations made in chapter 9 of the 1991 National Academy of Sciences report;

(4)the feasibility of reducing the generation of greenhouse gases;

(5)the feasibility and economic, energy, social, environmental, and competitive implications, including implications for jobs, of achieving a 20 percent reduction from 1988 levels in the generation of carbon dioxide by the year 2005 as recommended by the 1988 Toronto Scientific World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere;

(6)the potential economic, energy, social, environmental, and competitive implications, including implications for jobs, of implementing the policies necessary to enable the United States to comply with any obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or subsequent international agreements.

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42 U.S.C. § 13381

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102