United States Climate Action Partnership

USCAP Releases A Blueprint for Legislative Action (January 15, 2009)

Blueprint
Summary Overview

On January 15, 2009, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) issued A Blueprint for Legislative Action – a detailed framework for legislation to address climate change.  That day, USCAP CEOs testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee to discuss their landmark recommendations and efforts to advance climate legislation with a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system in 2009. Read Eileen Claussen’s testimony.

Read Eileen Claussen's A Blueprint for Action op-ed in Environmental Finance.

Watch the Pew Center’s Nikki Roy and PG&E’s Melissa Lavinson field questions about USCAP’s detailed recommendations for climate legislation on E&ETV.

View the press conference announcing the release of the legislative recommendations.

USCAP is an unprecedented alliance of 5 leading non-governmental organizations and 25 major corporations. This diverse group of business and environmental leaders have come together to call for mandatory action, with a comprehensive approach involving near-, mid-, and long-term targets, and a range of effective policies.

USCAP was formed in January 2007 and issued A Call for Action. This document includes a series of principles and recommendations calling for the federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation to achieve significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. 

Members of USCAP:

• AES
• Alcoa
• Alstom
• Boston Scientific
• BP America
• Caterpillar
• Chrysler
• ConocoPhillips
• Deere & Company
• The Dow Chemical Company
• Duke Energy
• DuPont
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Exelon Corporation
• Ford Motor Company
• FPL Group
• General Electric
• General Motors Corporation
• Johnson & Johnson
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• The Nature Conservancy
• NRG Energy
• PepsiCo
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• PG&E Corporation
• PNM Resources
• Rio Tinto
• Shell
• Siemens Corporation
• World Resources Institute