42 U.S.C. § 17285 — Sense of Congress relating to the use of renewable resources to generate energy
submitted 19 years ago by Pub. L. 110-140 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 322 words · no verdicts yet
Congress finds that the United States has renewable resources capable of supplying a significant share of its energy and identifies listed economic, security, environmental, and energy benefits. Congress states a goal for agricultural, forestry, and working lands by January 1, 2025.
(a) Congress finds that renewable resources can supply a significant part of United States energy; agricultural, forestry, and working lands can support a sustainable domestic system; faster renewable technology development offers national-security, balance-of-payments, rural-economy, environmental, and abundant, reliable, affordable-energy benefits; renewable transportation fuels can meet growing demand, reduce dependence on imports from unstable regions, stabilize cost and availability, and protect the economy and security; domestic renewable production can attract infrastructure investment, create growth and jobs, and raise rural farm, ranch, and forestry income; renewable energy is practical and potentially cost-effective with supportive policies and incentives; and supportive public policies can further lower costs and raise demand. (b) Congress states that by January 1, 2025, agricultural, forestry, and working lands should provide at least 25 percent of total United States energy from renewable resources while continuing to produce safe, abundant, affordable food, feed, and fiber.
Congress finds that—
the United States has a quantity of renewable energy resources that is sufficient to supply a significant portion of the energy needs of the United States;
the agricultural, forestry, and working land of the United States can help ensure a sustainable domestic energy system;
accelerated development and use of renewable energy technologies provide numerous benefits to the United States, including improved national security, improved balance of payments, healthier rural economies, improved environmental quality, and abundant, reliable, and affordable energy for all citizens of the United States;
the production of transportation fuels from renewable energy would help the United States meet rapidly growing domestic and global energy demands, reduce the dependence of the United States on energy imported from volatile regions of the world that are politically unstable, stabilize the cost and availability of energy, and safeguard the economy and security of the United States;
increased energy production from domestic renewable resources would attract substantial new investments in energy infrastructure, create economic growth, develop new jobs for the citizens of the United States, and increase the income for farm, ranch, and forestry jobs in the rural regions of the United States;
increased use of renewable energy is practical and can be cost effective with the implementation of supportive policies and proper incentives to stimulate markets and infrastructure; and
public policies aimed at enhancing renewable energy production and accelerating technological improvements will further reduce energy costs over time and increase market demand.
It is the sense of Congress that it is the goal of the United States that, not later than January 1, 2025, the agricultural, forestry, and working land of the United States should—
provide from renewable resources not less than 25 percent of the total energy consumed in the United States; and
continue to produce safe, abundant, and affordable food, feed, and fiber.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 110–140, title VIII, § 806, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1722.)
- 2007Enacted · Pub. L. 110-140 · 121 Stat. 1722
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