The Earth Bill

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THIS PAGE HAS IN ITS ENTIRETY BELOW THE COMPREHENSIVE EARTH BILL WHICH WE NEED OUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS TO SPONSOR;
IT ALSO HAS THE INDIVIDUAL ISSUES BILLS COMING TO THE FLOOR THIS YEAR WHICH REQUIRE PASSAGE;
THESE POSTED HERE HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE CLIMATE CRISIS POLICY GROUP FOR PROVIDING THE CONTENT TO THE EARTH BILL

New Bills that will help form the backbone or the content for the EARTH BILL are coming to the floor.
Here is the Environmental Justice Bill which just got its numbers as of 4/15/21:
Please call your senators and representatives to sponsor this excellent bill
Environmental Justice for All Act, H.R. 2021 and S. 872: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H4Bg7S3EE9eS3JDyH_x8uour37s0S806PNRIbgdsTLE/edit?usp=sharing.

Overview with bill and climate bills pending in full below:
Here is a video and link for the EARTH BILL: this is a composite of the most pressing emissions producing issues compiled into a comprehensive bill which demands elimination of Fossil Fuels entirely with the goal of 2030 to keep us from the 1.5 degree celsius tipping point lock in. This would supplant all other pending so called comprehensive bills as they do not make the full demands needed.

The Earth Bill: A 2030 Moonshot for Earth
1. 100% Renewable Electricity by utilities
2. 100 % Electric Vehicles by manufacturers
3. 100 % Regenerative Agriculture by Industrial plant and animal corporations

80% of Our Pollution Solution.
100% of Our Political Solution.

Take The Earth Bill Citizen Pledge Today
With Enforcement Tied To Corporate Tax Deductions
(This way it fits in the budget!)
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Prior to bill itself please note KEY DEFINITIONS / TERMS

The renewable clean energy standard in this bill is aimed to end fossil fuel use in utility-scale electricity production and vehicles, and transition 242 million acres of farmland to regenerative agriculture.

Notes:
(On Electricity, the requirements pertain to Utilities.
In the food/ag system, corporations control land use by contracts with farmers. So here, we define the large ag corporations as “industrial plant and animal corporations” where the decision-making occurs.
The Regenerative Agriculture definition comes from the Climate Stewardship Act by Sen. Booker and Sec. Haaland. )

Definitions are what divide us the most and divided we fall:
RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY. The term “renewable electricity” means energy produced from wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, wave, and existing hydropower sources.
Source: Climate Crisis Policy Electricity Policy Sector, based on OFF Act, and other sources.

UTILITIES. In the draft bill “utility” is called “retail electricity supplier” which means an entity that sold not less than 1,000 megawatt hours of electric energy to electric consumers for purposes other than resale during the preceding calendar year.
Note: The requirement to source 100% renewable electricity is directed at our utility companies, who today, purchase fossil fuel sources. Source: Off Fossil Fuel Act.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES. (Very draft) The term “electric vehicle” (also known as a battery electric vehicle (BEV), pure electric vehicle, only-electric vehicle or all-electric vehicle) is a type of electric vehicle that exclusively uses chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs, with no secondary source of propulsion.
REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE. —The term ‘regenerative agriculture’ means any of the following practices: “(A) Alley cropping. “(B) Biochar incorporation. “(C) Conservation cover. “(D) Conservation crop rotation. “(E) Contour buffer strips. “(F) Contour farming. “(G) Cover crops. “(H) Critical area planting. “(I) Cross wind trap strips. “(J) Field borders. “(K) Filter strips. “(L) Forage and biomass planting, including the use of native prairie and seed mixtures. “(M) Forest stand improvements. “(N) Grassed waterways. “(O) Hedgerow planting. “(P) Herbaceous wind barriers. “(Q) Multistory cropping. “(R) Nutrient management. “(S) Prescribed grazing. “(T) Range planting. “(U) Residue and tillage management with no till. “(V) Residue and tillage management with reduced till. “(W) Riparian forest buffers. “(X) Riparian herbaceous buffers. “(Y) Silvopasture establishment. “(Z) Stripcropping. “(AA) Tree and shrub establishment. “(BB) Upland wildlife habitat. “(CC) Vegetative barriers. “(DD) Wetland restoration. “(EE) Windbreak renovation. “(FF) Windbreaks and shelterbelts. “(GG) Woody residue treatment. “(HH) Any other highly effective vegetative or management practice that significantly reduces agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, increases carbon sequestration, or assists producers in adapting to, or mitigating against, increasing weather volatility, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.”.

Source: Climate Stewardship Act, Senator Booker, Rep. Haaland (2020). Note: Terms vary. The Resilience Act used “Climate Stewardship Practices''.

INDUSTRIAL PLANT OR ANIMAL CORPORATION (Draft) - The term "Industrial Plant Or Animal Corporation" is an entity, domestic or foreign, engaged in agricultural or food sectors in the United States that (a) requires farm or ranch operators to purchase patented or entity owned inputs for crops, livestock or animal products ultimately acquired by the entity or subsidiary thereof; or (b) requires particular on-farm management practices; or (c) controls 15% or greater of any agricultural or food sector; or (d) is publically traded on the Securities Exchange Commission.
Source: Climate Crisis Policy’s Food-AG Sector Team. Entities Intended to be Covered U.S. Market. Note: This will reach about 242 million acres of U.S. farmland.

ORDINARY AND NECESSARY BUSINESS DEDUCTIONS.
Note: The approach is to immediately double deductions for capital climate transition costs. Then in 2031, to reduce ordinary and necessary business deductions (26 U.S.C. 162A) based on the % not achieved of the 100% standards. Example: Utility achieves 75% clean energy sourcing by 2030. In 2031, total ordinary and necessary business deductions would be reduced by 25% (the outstanding non-compliance). This is very much still under review, with draft language below.

PRELIMINARY DRAFT LANGUAGE of the Earth Bill
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THE EARTH BILL
TO STOP OUR POLLUTION BY 2030

H. R. ####

To ensure 100% renewable electricity, electric vehicles, and regenerative agriculture to stop our current pollution, protect our food supply, and absorb past greenhouse gas pollution in order to prevent a collapse of the planetary climate systems

To ensure by 2030 the transition to 100% renewable electricity in utilities, electric vehicles from manufacturers, and regenerative agriculture by industrial plant and animal corporations in orderto stop 80% of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution and thereby avert 1.5 degree warming in line with the Paris Accord
Be it enacted by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) Short Title.—This Act may be cited as the “The Earth Bill to Stop Our Pollution by 2030”.

(b) Table Of Contents.—The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 201. Renewable electricity production.
Sec. 202. Electric vehicle production
Sec. 203. Regenerative agriculture production
Sec. 300. Definitions
Sec. 400. Incentives and penalties

SECTION 2. ELECTRICITY, VEHICLE & AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION STANDARDS

SEC. 201. RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION.
(a) Minimum Annual Percentage.—The minimum annual percentage of the quantity of electricity sold by a retail electric supplier that must be generated from renewable energy resources shall be--
   (1) in 2027, 80 percent; and
   (2) in 2030, and every year following, 100 percent.
SEC. 202. ELECTRIC VEHICLE PRODUCTION.
Part A of title II of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7521 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(a) In General.—The minimum annual percentage of the quantity of new motor vehicle sales of a vehicle manufacturer that shall be Electric Vehicles shall be--
   (1) in 2027, 80 percent; and
   (2) in 2030, and every year following, 100 percent.
SEC. 203. REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION
   (a) In General - The minimum annual percentage of land managed with regenerative agricultural practices for Industrial Food & Agricultural Companies shall be -
       (1) In 2025, 50 percent; and
       (2) In 2027, 75 percent; and
       (3) in 2030, 100 percent.
SECTION 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
SEC. 301. RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY--The term “renewable electricity” means energy produced from wind, solar, geothermal, tidal, wave, and existing hydropower sources.
SEC. 302. RETAIL ELECTRIC SUPPLIER.—The term “retail electric supplier” means an entity that sold not less than 1,000 megawatt hours of electric energy to electric consumers for purposes other than resale during the preceding calendar year.
(#) VEHICLE MANUFACTURER.--
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘vehicle manufacturer’ means an entity that--
   (i) engaged in the manufacturing of new motor vehicles; and
   (ii) sold not fewer than 100 new motor vehicles to ultimate purchasers, either directly or through an affiliate, such as a dealer.
(B) EXCLUSIONS.—The term ‘vehicle manufacturer’ does not include--
   (i) a motor vehicle parts supplier; or
   (ii) a dealer.
   SEC. 303. INDUSTRIAL PLANT OR ANIMAL CORPORATION.--The term ‘industrial plant or animal corporation’ is an entity, domestic or foreign, engaged in agricultural or food sectors in the United States that (a) requires farm or ranch operators to purchase patented or entity owned inputs for crops, livestock or animal products ultimately acquired by the entity or subsidiary thereof; or (b) requires particular on-farm management practices; or (c) controls 15% or greater of any agricultural or food sector; or (d) is publically traded on the Securities Exchange Commission.
SEC. 304. REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE. —The term ‘regenerative agriculture’ means any of the following practices: “(A) Alley cropping. “(B) Biochar incorporation. “(C) Conservation cover. “(D) Conservation crop rotation. “(E) Contour buffer strips. “(F) Contour farming. “(G) Cover crops. “(H) Critical area planting. “(I) Cross wind trap strips. “(J) Field borders. “(K) Filter strips. “(L) Forage and biomass planting, including the use of native prairie and seed mixtures. “(M) Forest stand improvements. “(N) Grassed waterways. “(O) Hedgerow planting. “(P) Herbaceous wind barriers. “(Q) Multistory cropping. “(R) Nutrient management. “(S) Prescribed grazing. “(T) Range planting. “(U) Residue and tillage management with no till. “(V) Residue and tillage management with reduced till. “(W) Riparian forest buffers. “(X) Riparian herbaceous buffers. “(Y) Silvopasture establishment. “(Z) Stripcropping. “(AA) Tree and shrub establishment. “(BB) Upland

wildlife habitat. “(CC) Vegetative barriers. “(DD) Wetland restoration. “(EE) Windbreak renovation. “(FF) Windbreaks and shelterbelts. “(GG) Woody residue treatment. “(HH) Any other highly effective vegetative or management practice that significantly reduces agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, increases carbon sequestration, or assists producers in adapting to, or mitigating against, increasing weather volatility, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.”.

SEC. 4. TAX INCENTIVES AND PENALTIES
SEC. 401. Section 162a of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 162a) is hereby amended by adding the following new sections:
(#) Beginning upon the effective date of this legislation, a utility, vehicle manufacturer or industrial food and agriculture company, as defined in The Earth Bill to Stop Our Pollution by 2030, shall be allowed a double deduction for qualified capital climate transitions costs to meet the requirements in that bill.
(#) “Qualified Capital Climate Transition Costs” include costs directly related to a transition to renewable energy sources, electric vehicle manufacturing, and regenerative agriculture, as further defined in regulation by the Secretary of the Treasury.
(#) Beginning in 2031, a utility, vehicle manufacturer, or industrial plant or animal corporation, as defined in The Earth Bill to Stop Our Pollution by 2030, deduction for ordinary and necessary expenses in 162a, shall be reduced by an equal percentage to the percentage by which that entity has not met the requirements of that legislation.
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Spring 2021 billsAND THE COMPREHENSIVE EARTH BILL

Spring 2021 bills

AND THE COMPREHENSIVE EARTH BILL