Summary: Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2007 - Title I: Capping Greenhouse Gas Emissions - Subtitle A: Tracking Emissions - (Sec. 1101) Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) establish a federal greenhouse gas (GHG) registry; (2) establish an advisory body that is broadly representative of private enterprise, agriculture, environmental groups, and state, tribal, and local governments to guide the development and management of the Registry; and (3) publish information contained in the Registry on the Internet, except information vital to national security or confidential business information that would cause significant competitive harm (provides that information relating to GHG emissions shall not be considered to be confidential business information.) Defines "GHG emissions" to mean emissions of a GHG, including: (1) stationary combustion source emissions from combustion of fuels in stationary equipment; (2) process emissions from chemical or physical processes other than combustion; (3) fugitive emissions from equipment leaks; and (4) biogenic emissions resulting from biological processes, such as anaerobic decomposition, nitrification, and denitrification.Requires each affected facility to submit periodic reports to the Administrator for inclusion in the Registry, including annual and quarterly data on: (1) the quantity and type of fossil fuels that are extracted, produced, refined, imported, exported, or consumed; (2) the quantity of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide that has been captured and sequestered and other GHGs generated, produced, imported, exported, or consumed; (3) the quantity of electricity generated, imported, exported, or consumed and the quantity of GHGs emitted when the imported, exported, or consumed electricity was generated; (4) the aggregate quantity of all GHG emissions, including stationary combustion source emissions, process emissions, and fugitive emissions; (5) GHG emissions expressed in metric tons of each GHG emitted and in the quantity of carbon dioxide equivalents of each GHG emitted; (6) sources of GHG emissions; and (7) a certification regarding the accuracy and completeness of reported data.Requires the Administrator to verify the completeness and accuracy of the report before including the information in the Registry. Requires each affected facility to provide information sufficient for the Administrator to: (1) verify that its fossil fuel and GHG emission data have been completely and accurately reported; and (2) ensure the submission or retention, for five-years, of data sources, information on internal control activities, information on assumptions used in reporting emissions and fuels, and uncertainty analyses. Defines "affected facility" to mean: (1) a covered facility; (2) another facility that emits a GHG; and (3) at the option of the Administrator, a vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 10,000 carbon dioxide equivalents in any year, assuming no double-counting of emissions. Excludes from such a term any facility that: (1) is not a covered facility; (2) is owned or operated by a small business; and (3) emits fewer than 10,000 carbon dioxide equivalents in any year. Defines "covered facility" to mean any facility that: (1) uses more than 5,000 tons of coal in a year; (2) is a natural gas processing plant, produces natural gas in Alaska, or imports natural gas (including liquefied natural gas); (3) produces or imports petroleum- or coal-based liquid or gaseous fuel, the combustion of which will emit a group I GHG, assuming no capture and sequestration of that gas; (4) produces for sale or distribution or imports, in any year, more than 10,000 carbon dioxide equivalents of chemicals that are group I GHG, assuming no capture and destruction or sequestration of that gas; or (5) emits as a byproduct of the production of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) more than 10,000 carbon dioxide equivalents of HFCs in any year. Defines "facility" to mean: (1) buildings, structures, or installations located on contiguous or adjacent properties of an entity in the United States; and (2) at the option of the Administrator, any activity or operation that emits 10,000 carbon dioxide equivalents in any year and that has a technical connection with the activities carried out at a facility, but that is not conducted or located on the facility's property.Defines "group I GHG" to mean carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, or a perfluorocarbon. Defines "group II GHG" to mean HFCs.Authorized the Administrator to determine: (1) whether certain sources at a facility should be considered to be eligible for a de minimis exemption from such reporting requirements; and (2) the level of GHGs emitted that would qualify for such exemption. Requires each affected facility to submit: (1) required annual data by March 31, 2009, for a baseline period of 2004 through 2007; and (2) quarterly data no later than 60 days after the end of the applicable quarter for 2008 and each subsequent year.Authorizes the Administrator to waive reporting requirements for specific facilities if the Administrator determines that sufficient and equally or more reliable data are available under other provisions of law.Requires the Administrator, if information is not provided for an affected facility, to: (1) prescribe methods to estimate emissions for the facility reflecting the highest emission levels that may reasonably have occurred; and (2) take appropriate enforcement action. (Sec. 1106) Authorizes the Administrator to bring civil action in U.S. district court against the owner or operator of an affected facility that fails to comply with reporting requirements. Subjects any person violating reporting requirements to a civil penalty of no more than $25,000 per day of each violation.Subtitle B: Reducing Emissions - (Sec. 1201) Requires the Administrator to establish a separate quantity of emission allowances (the authorization to emit carbon dioxide equivalents of GHG) for each of 2012-2050. Provides that an emission allowance is not a property right.Sets forth emission allowances for 2012-2050, with a declining cap on GHGs.Requires the owner or operator a covered facility to submit to the Administrator an emission allowance, an offset allowance awarded to electric load-serving entities, or an international emission allowance for each carbon dioxide equivalent of a: (1) group I GHG that was emitted by the use of coal during the preceding year; (2) group I GHG that will, assuming no capture and sequestration, be emitted from the use of any petroleum- or coal-based liquid or gaseous fuel that was produced or imported during the preceding year; (3) group I GHG that was produced for sale or distribution or imported during the preceding year; (4) group II GHG that was emitted as a byproduct of HCFC production; and (5) group I GHG that will, assuming no capture and destruction or sequestration, be emitted from the use of natural gas that was processed, imported, or produced and not reinjected into the field or from the use of natural gas liquids that were processed or imported during the preceding year.Requires the Administrator to: (1) retire emission allowances immediately upon their receipt; or (2) determine whether the owners and operators of all covered facilities are in full compliance with requirements concerning emission allowances for the preceding year by July 1.Requires the Administrator to establish and distribute feedstock credits to entities that have used a petroleum- or coal-based product, natural gas, or a natural gas liquid as feedstock during 2012-2050 for the quantity of allowances that were submitted for that feedstock, minus the number of carbon dioxide equivalents of GHG that the facility released to the atmosphere from the feedstock.Requires the Administrator to establish and distribute to: (1) owners or operators of covered facilities that are subject to submission requirements and that have geologically sequestered carbon dioxide during any of years 2012-2050 quantities of emission allowances equal to the number of metric tons of carbon dioxide that the owners or operators sequestered; and (2) entities that have destroyed GHGs during any of such years a quantity of emission allowances equal to the number of carbon dioxide equivalents of GHG destroyed.Sets forth excess emission penalties. Requires the Administrator to deposit penalty receipts into the Treasury. Makes owners or operators of covered facilities that fail to submit emission allowances due by the deadline for any year liable to offset the excess emissions by an equal quantity during the following year (or such longer period as the Administrator may prescribe). Requires such owners and operators to submit a plan to achieve the required offsets to the Administrator and to the states in which the covered facilities are located. Requires such plan to be considered to be a condition of the operating permit for the covered facility. Requires the Administrator to deduct emission allowances equal to the excess emissions from each facility. Requires the owner or operator of any facility liable for a penalty and offset to: (1) pay the penalty; (2) provide such plan; and (3) offset excess emissions.Requires the Administrator, within two years, to expand the definition of "covered facility" to ensure the inclusion of all GHG emissions from natural gas emitted, flared during production or processing, or sold for use in the United States.Title II: Managing and Containing Costs Efficiently - Subtitle A: Trading - (Sec. 2101) Allows the lawful holder of an emission allowance to sell, exchange, transfer, submit for compliance, or retire such allowance. (Sec. 2102) Prohibits the privilege of purchasing, holding, selling, exchanging, and retiring emission allowances from being restricted to owners and operators of covered facilities.(Sec. 2103) Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations to implement the provisions relating to emission allowances within 18 months, including regulations governing the transfer of allowances.Subtitle B: Banking - (Sec. 2202) Provides that the passage of time shall not, by itself, cause an emission allowance to be retired or otherwise diminish its compliance value.Subtitle C: Borrowing - (Sec. 2301) Requires the Administrator, within three years, to promulgate regulations under which the owner or operator of a covered facility may: (1) borrow emission allowances for a specific future year from the Administrator; and (2) submit borrowed emission allowances to the Administrator in satisfaction of up to 15% of its compliance obligation for a prior year. Prohibits allowances from being borrowed for any year that is more than five years earlier. Sets forth provisions governing the repayment of borrowed allowances.Subtitle D: Offsets - (Sec. 2401) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Chief of the Forest Service, the Administrator of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, and land-grant colleges and universities, to establish an outreach initiative to provide information to agricultural producers, agricultural organizations, foresters, and other landowners about opportunities under this Act to earn new revenue. Authorizes such initiative to include the creation and development of regional marketing centers or coordination with existing centers.Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, within two years, to publish a handbook on achieving, reporting, registering, and marketing offsets for use by agricultural producers, agricultural cooperatives foresters, and other landowners, offset buyers, and other stakeholders. Requires the Secretary to ensure that the handbook: (1) is electronically available; (2) includes electronic forms and calculation tools to facilitate the petition process for offset project approval; and (3) is distributed widely through land-grant colleges and universities.(Sec. 2402) Authorizes the owner or operator of a covered entity, beginning with 2012, to satisfy up to 15% of its total allowance submission requirement by submitting offset allowances.Requires the Administrator, within 18 months and in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture, to promulgate regulations authorizing the issuance and certification of offset allowances. Requires such regulations to: (1) require the owner of a project to establish a project baseline and register emissions under the Federal Greenhouse Gas Registry for offsets from sources of GHGs not linked to agricultural, forestry, or other land use-related projects; (2) authorize the issuance and certification of offset allowances for GHG emission reductions below the project baseline; and (3) ensure that those offsets represent a real, verifiable, additional, permanent, and enforceable reduction in GHG emissions or increases in sequestration.Requires such regulations for offsets from certain agricultural, forestry, and other land use-related projects to: (1) ensure that those offsets represent real, verifiable, additional, permanent, and enforceable reductions in GHG emissions or increases in biological sequestration; (2) specify the types of offset projects eligible to generate offset allowances; and (3) ensure permanence of offsets by mitigating and compensating for reversals.Provides that initial ownership of an offset alliance lies with a project developer, unless otherwise specified in a legally-binding contract or agreement.Authorizes such offset allowances to be sold, traded, or transferred on the conditions that: (1) the offset allowances have not expired or been retired or canceled; and (2) liability and responsibility for mitigating and compensating for reversals of registered offset allowances is specified.(Sec. 2403) Limits offset allowances from agricultural, forestry, and other land use related projects to those allowances achieving an offset of one or more GHGs by a method other than a reduction of combustion of GHG-emitting fuel. Sets forth categories of eligible offset projects.(Sec. 2404) Authorizes a project developer to submit a petition for offset project approval following the effective date of the domestic offset requirements. Prohibits developers from registering or issuing offset allowances until such approval is received and the emission reductions or sequestrations supporting the offset allowances have occurred. Requires a monitoring and quantification plan to be used to monitor, quantify, and discount reductions in GHG emissions or increases in sequestration. Requires a monitoring and quantification plan to be: (1) completed for all offset projects prior to offset project initiation; and (2) retained by the project developer for the duration of the offset project.Requires the Administrator, in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture, to specify the required components of a monitoring and quantification plan. Requires the Administrator, in reviewing petitions, to seek to exclude each activity that undermines the integrity of the offset program, such as the conversion or clearing of land, or marked change in management regime, in anticipation of offset project initiation.Sets forth requirements for GHG initiation certification. Requires: (1) a determination to be made as to whether, as a result of activities or behavior inconsistent with trading permitted under this Act, a significant deviation exists between the average annual GHG flux or carbon stock and the GHG flux or carbon stock for a given year; (2) the Administrator, in the case of a significant deviation, to adjust the number of allowances awarded; and (3) the Administrator to develop standardized methods for accounting for additionality and uncertainty, estimating the baseline, and discounting for leakage for each eligible offset project and to require such leakage be subtracted from reductions in GHG emissions or increases in sequestration attributable to a project. Defines "additionality" to mean the extent to which reductions in GHG emissions or increases in sequestration are incremental to business as usual, measured as the difference with baseline GHG fluxes of an offset project. Defines "leakage" to mean: (1) a significant unaccounted increase in GHG emissions caused by an offset project that produces an accounted reduction in GHG emissions; or (2) a significant unaccounted decrease in sequestration caused by an offset project that results in an accounted increase in sequestration.(Sec. 2405) Authorizes offset allowances to be claimed for net emission reductions or increases in sequestration annually, after accounting for any necessary discounts, by submitting a verification report for an offset project to the Administrator. Sets forth regulations concerning third-party verification of offset projects and related reporting requirements. Requires the Administrator to establish mechanisms for the appeal and review of determinations of whether offsets in verification reports satisfy such requirements.(Sec. 2406) Directs the Administrator to require the submission of a reversal certification for each offset project on an annual basis following the registration of offset allowances. Requires a reversal certification to state: (1) whether any unmitigated reversal relating to the offset project has occurred in the preceding year; and (2) the quantity of each unmitigated reversal. Requires the Administrator to: (1) declare invalid all offset allowances issued for any offset project that has undergone a complete reversal; and (2) render invalid offset allowances issued for the offset project in direct proportion to the degree of reversal in the case of an offset project that has undergone a partial reversal.Places liability and responsibility for compensation of a reversal of a registered offset with the owner of the offset allowance. Provides for compensation for reversals.Authorizes a project developer to cease participation in the domestic offset program on the condition that any registered allowances awarded for increases in sequestration have been compensated for by the developer through the submission of an equal number of offset and emission allowances.(Sec. 2407) Requires the Administrator, within two years and in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture, to promulgate regulations governing the examination and auditing of offset allowances.(Sec. 2408) Authorizes an offset project that commences operation on or after the effective date of such regulations to generate offset allowances. Authorizes the Administrator to allow for the transition into the Registry of offset projects and banked offset allowances that are registered under, or that meet the standards of, the Climate Registry, the Chicago Climate Exchange, the GHG CleanProjects Registry, or any other federal, state, or private reporting programs or registries if the Administrator determines that such other offset projects and banked offset allowances under those other programs or registries satisfy the applicable offset requirements. Makes an offset allowance that is expired, retired, or canceled under any other offset program, registry, or market ineligible for transition into the Registry.(Sec. 2410) Requires the Administrator, in promulgating offset regulations, to act in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture to avoid or minimize adverse effects on human health or the environment resulting from the implementation of offset projects.Requires the Administrator, within two years and in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture, to report to Congress on incentives, programs, or policies capable of fostering improvements to human health or the environment in conjunction with the implementation of offset projects.Requires the Administrator, within 18 months and in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture, to promulgate regulations for the selection, use, and storage of native and nonnative plant materials to: (1) ensure native plant materials are given primary consideration, in accordance with applicable Department of Agriculture guidance for use of native plant materials; (2) prohibit the use of federal- or state-designated noxious weeds; and (3) prohibit the use of a species listed by a regional or state invasive plant council within the applicable region or state.(Sec. 2411) Requires the Administrator, in conjunction with the Secretary of Agriculture, to review and revise offset regulations within five years and periodically thereafter.(Sec. 2412) Requires the Administrator, by January 1, 2009, to establish new qualifying levels and requirements for Energy Star certification for retail carbon offsets that will become effective on January 1, 2010. Defines "retail carbon offset" to mean any carbon credit or carbon offset that can not be used in satisfaction of any mandatory compliance obligation under a regulatory system for reducing GHG emissions.Subtitle E: International Emission Allowances - (Sec. 2501) Authorizes the owner or operator of a covered facility to satisfy up to 15% of its allowance submission requirement by submitting emission allowances obtained on a foreign GHG emissions trading market.(Sec. 2502) Requires the Administrator, within two years and taking into consideration protocols adopted in accordance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on May 9, 1992, to promulgate regulations: (1) approving the use of emission allowances from such foreign GHG emissions trading markets; and (2) permitting the use of international emission allowances. Requires such regulations to require that, in order to be approved for use: (1) an emission allowance shall have been issued by a foreign country pursuant to a governmental program that imposes mandatory absolute tonnage limits on GHG emissions from that country or from industry sectors in that country; and (2) the governmental program be of comparable stringency to the program established by this Act.(Sec. 2503) Requires the owner or operator of a covered facility who submits an international emission allowance to certify that the allowance has not been retired from use in the registry of the applicable foreign country.Subtitle F: Carbon Market Efficiency Board - (Sec. 2601) Provides that the purposes of this subtitle are to: (1) ensure that the imposition of limits on GHG emissions will not significantly harm the U.S. economy; and (2) establish a Carbon Market Efficiency Board to ensure the implementation and maintenance of a stable, functioning, and efficient market in emission allowances.(Sec. 2602) Establishes the Carbon Market Efficiency Board to: (1) promote such purposes; and (2) observe the national GHG emission market and evaluate periods during which the cost of emission allowances provided under federal law might pose significant harm to the economy. Requires the Board to submit to the President and Congress and publish on the Internet, quarterly, independent reports on: (1) the status of the emission allowance market; (2) the economic costs and benefits of the market, regional, industrial, and consumer responses to the market; (3) energy investment responses; (4) any corrective measures that should be carried out to relieve excessive net costs of the market; (5) plans to compensate for those measures to ensure that the long-term emission reduction goals of this Act are achieved; and (6) any instances and effects of actual or potential fraud on, or manipulation of, the market that the Board has identified.(Sec 2603) Requires the Board to collect and analyze relevant market information to promote a full understanding of the dynamics of the emission allowance market. Designates information gathering as the primary activity of the Board during the initial two-year period of its operation. Requires the Board to assume authority to implement the cost-relief measures after such period.Requires the Board to: (1) study other markets for tradable permits to emit covered GHGs; (2) submit and publish a report on the status of the market, specifically with respect to volatility and the average price of emission allowances during the initial two-year period; (3) carry out cost relief measures relating to an emission allowance market established by this Act if the Board determines such market poses a significant harm to the U.S. economy; and (4) increase the quantity of emission allowances that covered facilities may borrow from the prescribed allocations of the covered facilities for future years and take subsequent action if, during the initial two-year period of the market's operation, the Board determines that the average daily closing price of emission allowances during a 180-day period exceeds the upper range of the estimate of costs to the U.S. economy of limiting GHG emissions.Requires the Board to submit to the President and Congress quarterly reports on the status of the emission allowance market and related issues.(Sec. 2604) Authorizes the Board, after the expiration of the Board's initial two-year period of operation, to implement the following cost relief measures to ensure functioning, stable, and efficient markets for emission allowances: (1) increase the quantity of emission allowances that covered facilities may borrow from the prescribed allocations of the covered facilities for future years; (2) expand the period during which a covered facility may repay the Administrator for an emission allowance; (3) lower the interest rate at which an emission allowance may be borrowed; (4) increase the quantity of emission allowances obtained on a foreign GHG emissions trading market that the owner or operator of any covered facility may use to satisfy the allowance submission requirement of the covered facility on the condition that the Administrator has certified the market; (5) increase the quantity of offset allowances generated that the owner or operator of any covered facility may use to satisfy its total allowance submission requirement; and (6) expand the total quantity of emission allowances made available to all covered facilities at any given time by borrowing against the total allowable quantity of emission allowances to be provided for future years.Requires the Board, on its determination to implement such a cost relief measure, to: (1) allow it to be used only during the applicable allocation year; (2) exercise it incrementally and only as needed to avoid significant economic harm during the applicable allocation year; (3) specify the terms of the relief to be achieved; (4) submit a report on the Board's actions and recommendations for the terms under which the measure should be authorized by Congress and carried out by federal entities; and (5) evaluate, at the end of the applicable allocation year, actions that need to be implemented during subsequent years to compensate for any measure carried out during the applicable allocation year.Requires the Board to increase the quantity of emission allowances available for the applicable allocation year if the Board implements a cost relief measure that results in the expansion of borrowing of emission allowances and if the average daily closing price of emission allowances for the 180-day period beginning on the date on which borrowing is so expanded exceeds the upper range of the estimated costs of limiting GHG emissions. Requires such an increase to: (1) apply to all covered facilities; (2) be equal to no more than 5% of the total quantity of emission allowances otherwise available for the applicable allocation year; (3) remain in effect only for the applicable allocation year; and (4) specify the date for repayment by covered facilities that is no later than 15 years after the increase is provided. Authorizes the Board to levy on owners and operators of covered facilities an assessment sufficient to pay the Board's estimated expenses and salaries. (Sec. 2605) Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to report to Congress by July 1, 2014, on the projected: (1) price range at which emission allowances are expected to trade during the two-year period of the initial GHG emission market; and (2) impact of that market on the U.S. economy.Title III: Allocating and Distributing Allowances - Subtitle A: Auctions - (Sec. 3101) Requires the Administrator, within 180 days, to allocate 5% of the emission allowances established for 2012, 3% of the emission allowances established for 2013, and 1% of the emissions established for 2014 to the Climate Change Credit Corporation (CCCC) established by this Act.(Sec. 3102) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate a percentage of emission allowances to CCCC for annual auctioning. Subtitle B: Early Action - (Sec. 3201) Requires the Administrator, within two years, in recognition of actions taken since January 1, 1994, that resulted in verified and credible reductions of GHG emissions, to allocate to owners or operators of covered facilities and other facilities that emit GHGs: (1) 5% of the emission allowances established for 2012; (2) 4% of the emission allowances established for 2013; (3) 3% of the emission allowances established for 2014; (4) 2% of the emission allowances established for 2015; and (5) 1% of the emission allowances established for 2016. (Sec. 3202) Requires the Administrator, within a year, to establish procedures and standards for distributing such emission allowances to owners and operators of covered facilities and other facilities that emit GHGs. Requires such procedures and standards to provide for consideration of verified and credible emission reductions registered before enactment of this Act under: (1) the Climate Leaders Program or any other voluntary GHG reduction program of the EPA and the Department of Energy (DOE); (2) the Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases Program of the Energy Information Administration; (3) state or regional GHG emission reduction programs that include systems for tracking and verifying the greenhouse gas emission reductions; and (4) voluntary entity programs that resulted in entity-wide reductions in GHG emissions.Requires the Administrator, within four years, to distribute all emission allowances allocated for early action taken since 1994.Subtitle C: States - (Sec. 3301) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2001, and annually through 2049, to allocate 2% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following calendar year among states that subject utilities that deliver gas or electricity in those states to regulations that: (1) automatically adjust the rates charged by such utilities to fully recover fixed costs of service without regard to whether actual sales are higher or lower than the forecast on which the tariffed rates were based; and (2) make cost-effective energy-efficiency expenditures by investor-owned natural gas or electric utilities at least as rewarding to their shareholders as power or energy purchases or expenditures on new energy supplies or infrastructure.Requires the Administrator, by January 1, 2012, and annually through 2050, to allocate 1% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year among states that are in compliance with the Energy Conservation and Production Act's national model building energy codes and standards.(Sec. 3302) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate 2% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year among states that have: (1) enacted statewide GHG emission reduction targets that are more stringent than the nationwide targets; and (2) imposed on covered facilities aggregate GHG emission limitations more stringent than those imposed under this Act.(Sec. 3303) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate 5% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year among states for: (1) mitigating impacts on low-income energy consumers; (2) promoting energy efficiency; (3) promoting investment in non-emitting electricity generation technology; (4) improving public transportation and passenger rail service and promoting reductions in vehicle miles traveled; (5) encouraging advances in energy technology that reduce or sequester GHG emissions; (6) addressing local or regional impacts of climate change; (7) collecting, evaluating, disseminating, and using information necessary for affected coastal communities to adapt to climate change; (8) mitigating obstacles to investment by new entrants in electricity generation markets and energy-intensive manufacturing sectors; (9) addressing local or regional impacts of local climate change policy; (10) mitigating impacts on energy-intensive industries in internationally competitive markets; (11) reducing hazardous fuels and preventing and suppressing wildland fire; (12) funding rural, municipal, and agricultural water projects that are consistent with the sustainable use of water resources; and (13) mitigating negative economic impacts as a result of global warming or new regulatory requirements as a result of this Act.Provides for the distribution of allowances.Requires a state to retire or use not less than 5% of its emission allowances for increasing recycling rates.Requires the Administrator, within three years and in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, to establish a program to: (1) deliver assistance to tribal communities within the United States that face disruption or dislocation as a result of global climate change; and (2) distribute 0.5% of the Emission Allowance Account for each year among tribal governments of such communities through 2050.(Sec. 3304) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate 1% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year among states for: (1) operating costs of state and municipal mass transit systems; (2) efforts to increase mass transit service and ridership; and (3) efforts to increase the efficiency of mass transit systems through the development, purchase, or deployment of innovative technologies that reduce emissions of GHGs. Provides for the use of such allowances.Subtitle D: Electricity Consumers - (Sec. 3401) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate among load-serving entities 9% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year. Defines "load-serving entity" to mean an entity: (1) that has an obligation to deliver electricity to retail consumers; and (2) whose rates and costs are regulated by a state agency, regulatory commission, municipality, or public utility district, except in the case of a registered electric cooperative. Provides for the distribution and use of such allowances. Requires proceeds from the sale of such allowances to be used to: (1) mitigate economic impacts on low- and middle-income energy consumers; and (2) promote energy efficiency on the part of energy consumers. Prohibits such entities from using such proceeds to provide rebates to consumers based on the quantity of electricity used. (Sets forth reporting requirements for load-serving entities that accept emission allowances.Subtitle E: Natural Gas Consumers - (Sec. 3501) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate among natural gas local distribution companies 2% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year for: (1) mitigating economic impacts on low- and middle-income energy consumers; and (2) promoting energy efficiency on the part of energy consumers. Provides for the distribution and use of such allowances. Prohibits such companies from using the proceeds from the sale of such allowances to provide rebates to consumers based on the quantity of natural gas used. Sets forth reporting requirements for companies that accept emission allowances.Subtitle F: Bonus Allowances for Carbon Capture and Geological Sequestration - (Sec. 3601) Requires the Administrator, within three years, to: (1) establish a Bonus Allowance Account; and (2) allocate 4% of the emission allowances established for 2012-2030 to such Account.(Sec. 3602) Requires a carbon capture and sequestration project, in order to be eligible to receive allowances, to: (1) sequester carbon dioxide capture from any unit for which allowances are allocated in a geological formation permitted by the Administrator for that purpose in accordance with part C of the Safe Drinking Water Act; and (2) have begun operations between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2035. Sets forth emission performance standards for such projects.Authorizes CCCC to adjust the emission performance standard for such a project for an electric generation unit that uses subbituminous coal, lignite, or petroleum coke in significant amounts.(Sec. 3603) Provides for the distribution of allowances from the Bonus Allowance Accounts.(Sec. 3604) Provides that a project may receive allowances only for: (1) the first ten years of operation; or (2) 2012-2021 if the unit covered by the project began operating before January 1, 2012.Subtitle G: Domestic Agriculture and Forestry - (Sec. 3701) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate to the Secretary of Agriculture 5% of the Emission Allowance Account for use in achieving real, verifiable, additional, permanent, and enforceable reductions in GHG emissions and increases in GHG sequestration from the agriculture and forestry sectors of the U.S. economy. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress on the status of research on agricultural and forestry GHG management. Requires the President and the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate a program to conduct any additional research that is necessary. Provides for the distribution of such allowances. Subtitle H: International Forest Protection - (Sec. 3803) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate and distribute 2.5% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year for use in implementing forest carbon activities in other countries.(Sec. 3804) Requires the Administrator, within two years, to promulgate eligibility requirements for forest carbon activities directed at reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and at sequestration of carbon through restoration of forests and degraded land, afforestation, and improved forest management in other countries.(Sec. 3805) Requires the Administrator to identify and periodically update: (1) a list of countries that have demonstrated capacity to participate in international forest carbon activities, have capped GHG emissions or otherwise established a national emission reference scenario based on historical data, and have commenced an emission reduction program for the forest sector; and (2) a list of such countries that have achieved national-level reductions of deforestation and degradation below a historical reference scenario and demonstrated those reductions using remote sensing technology that meets international standards. Provides that a forest carbon activity, other than a reduction in deforestation or forest degradation, is eligible for distribution of emission allowances, subject to the quality criteria.Requires the Administrator, with respect to countries that are not on such lists, to recognize forest carbon activities. Encourages the Administrator to identify other incentives to encourage developing countries to protect largely-intact native forests.(Sec. 3806) Requires the Administrator to review international forest protection within three years and every five years thereafter.Authorizes the Administrator, beginning 10 years after this Act's enactment, to apply a discount to the distribution of emission allowances to countries that, in the aggregate, account for more than 0.5% of the global GHG emissions and that have not capped those emissions, established emissions reference scenarios based on historical data, or otherwise reduced total forest emissions.Subtitle I: Transition Assistance - (Sec. 3901) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through January 1, 2029, to allocate specified percentages of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year for transition assistance for: (1) fossil fuel-fired electric power generating facilities; (2) rural electric cooperatives; (3) owners and operators of energy intensive manufacturing facilities; (4) facilities that produce or import petroleum based fuel; and (5) HFC producers and importers. Provides for the distribution of such allowances and for requirements concerning the allowances of facilities that shut down.(Sec. 3902) Requires the Administrator to set aside a quantity of emission allowances for distribution to owners and operators of new entrant fossil fuel-fired electric power generating facilities.(Sec. 3903) Requires the Administrator to establish a pilot program for distributing 15% of the total number of emission allowances allocated for 2012-2029 to rural electric cooperatives in specified states. Provides for the distribution of allowances to other states. Sets forth program reporting requirements.(Sec. 3904) Provides for the distribution of allowances available for allocation to energy-intensive manufacturing facilities among currently operating facilities.Subtitle J: Reducing Methane Emissions from Landfills and Coal Mines - (Sec. 3907) Requires the Administrator, by April 1, 2011, and annually through 2049, to allocate 1% of the Emission Allowance Account for the following year to a program for achieving real, verifiable, additional, permanent, and enforceable reductions in emissions of methane from landfills and coal mines. Provides for the distribution of such allowances.Title IV: Auctions and Uses of Auction Proceeds - Subtitle A: Funds - (Sec. 4101) Establishes in the Treasury: (1) the Energy Assistance Fund; (2) the Climate Change Worker Training Fund; (3) the Adaptation Fund; (4) the Climate Change and National Security Fund; (5) the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Emergency Firefighting Fund; (6) the Forest Service Emergency Firefighting Fund; and (7) the Climate Security Act Management Fund.Subtitle B: Climate Change Credit Corporation - (Sec. 4201) Establishes the CCCC as a nonprofit corporation without stock, which shall not be considered to be an agency or establishment of the federal government.(Sec. 4204) Requires the Comptroller General of the United States, annually beginning January 1, 2013, to review and audit each expenditure under this Title.Subtitle C: Auctions - (Sec. 4301) Requires CCCC to begin auctioning its emission allowances within a year and to complete auctioning of all of its allowances by December 31, 2010. Requires the proceeds from such auctioning to be used to implement energy technology deployment programs.Provides for CCCC's annual auctions and the distribution and use of the proceeds to the Bureau of Land Management Emergency Firefighting Fund, the Forest Service Emergency Firefighting Fund; the Climate Security Act Management Fund, and energy technology deployment programs.Subtitle D: Energy Technology Deployment - (Sec. 4402) Requires CCCC to competitively award financial incentives in the technology categories of: (1) the production of electricity from new zero- or low-carbon generation; (2) the manufacture of high-efficiency consumer products; and (3) facility establishment or conversion by manufacturers and component suppliers of such technology. Defines "zero- or low-carbon generation" to mean generation of electricity by an electric generation unit that: (1) emits no carbon dioxide into the atmosphere or is fossil-fuel fired and emits into the atmosphere no more than 250 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour; and (2) was placed into commercial service after this Act's enactment.(Sec. 4403) Provides for: (1) demonstration projects using advanced coal generation technology; and (2) large-scale geological carbon storage projects that store carbon dioxide captured from electric generation units.Defines "advanced coal generation technology" to mean an advanced coal-fueled power plant technology that meets one of specified performance standards for limiting carbon dioxide emissions from an electric generation unit on an annual average basis. Authorizes CCCC to adjust such standards for a project for an electric generation unit that uses subbituminous coal, lignite, or petroleum coke in significant amounts.(Sec. 4404) Requires CCCC to provide deployment incentives to encourage projects to domestically produce transportation fuels from cellulosic biomass, relying on different feedstocks in different U.S. regions. Requires such incentives to be provided on a competitive basis to projects that domestically produce fuels that: (1) meet U.S. fuel and emission specifications; (2) help diversify domestic transportation energy supplies; and (3) improve or maintain air, water, soil, and habitat quality and protect scarce water supplies. Authorizes such incentives to consist of: (1) loan guarantees for the construction of production facilities and supporting infrastructure; or (2) production payments through a reverse auction.(Sec. 4405) Requires CCCC to provide facility conversion funding awards to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers to pay up to 30% of the costs of: (1) reequipping or expanding an existing manufacturing facility to produce qualifying advanced technology vehicles or qualifying components; and (2) engineering integration of qualifying vehicles and qualifying components. Requires awards to apply to: (1) facilities and equipment placed in service before January 1, 2030; and (2) engineering integration costs incurred after this Act's enactment. Limits the maximum amount of awards. Prohibits CCCC from making such an award to manufacturers that are out of compliance with corporate average fuel economy standards. Requires manufacturers that receive such awards to certify that they are complying with specified employment standards.Defines "advanced technology vehicle" to mean an electric vehicle, a fuel cell-powered vehicle, a hybrid or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, or an advanced diesel light duty motor vehicle that meets: (1) the Tier II Bin 5 or a lower-numbered emission standard established under the Clean Air Act; (2) any new emission standard for fine particulate matter prescribed by the Administrator under that Act; and (3) a standard of at least 125% of the average base year combined fuel economy for vehicles of a substantially similar nature and footprint.Defines "combined fuel economy" to mean: (1) the combined city-highway miles per gallon values as reported in accordance with federal regulation; and (2) in the case of an electric drive vehicle with the ability to recharge from an off-board source, the reported mileage using a petroleum equivalence factor for the off-board electricity (as defined by the Secretary of Energy).(Sec. 4406) Requires CCCC to use specified percentages of funding to: (1) support demonstration projects using sustainable energy technology; and (2) provide financial incentives to facilitate the deployment of sustainable energy technology.Subtitle E: Energy Consumers - (Sec. 4501) Requires specified percentages of funds deposited in the Energy Assistance Fund to be made available to the: (1) low-income home energy assistance program established under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981; (2) Weatherization Assistance Program for Low-Income Persons established under the Energy Conservation and Production Act; and (3) rural energy assistance program.(Sec. 4502) Requires the Secretary of Energy to implement a program to provide financial assistance to promote the availability of reasonably-priced distributed electricity in off-grid rural regions in which electricity prices exceed 150% of the national average.Subtitle F: Climate Change Worker Training Program - (Sec. 4603) Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish a climate change worker training program that: (1) creates a sustainable, comprehensive public program that provides quality training that is linked to jobs that are created through low-carbon energy, sustainable energy, and energy efficiency initiatives; (2) satisfies industry demand for a skilled workforce, supports economic growth, boosts the global competitiveness of the United States in expanding low-carbon energy, sustainable energy, and energy efficiency industries, and provides economic self-sufficiency and family-sustaining jobs for U.S. workers through quality training and placement in job opportunities in those industries; and (3) provides funds for federal and state industry-wide research, labor market information and labor exchange programs, and the development of federal- and state-administered training programs.(Sec. 4604) Requires the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to provide assistance to support national research to develop labor market data and to track future workforce trends resulting from energy-related initiatives.Requires the Secretary to award competitive, national energy training partnership grants to enable entities to: (1) implement national training that leads to economic self-sufficiency; and (2) develop a low-carbon energy, sustainable energy, and energy efficiency industries workforce. Sets forth grant eligibility requirements and authorized grant activities.Requires the Secretary to award competitive grants to enable states to administer: (1) labor market and labor exchange information programs; and (2) low-carbon energy, sustainable energy, and energy efficiency workforce development programs. Sets forth authorized grant activities and grant eligibility requirements.(Sec. 4605) Applies provisions of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 concerning workforce investment system administration to programs carried out under the Climate Change Worker Training Program. Requires a labor organization, if it represents a substantial number of workers that are engaged in similar work or training in an area that is the same as the area that is proposed to be funded under such Program, to be provided an opportunity to be consulted and to submit comments in regard to such a proposal.(Sec. 4606) Requires a specified percentage of the funds for the Climate Change Worker Training Program to be used for the University Programs within DOE to help U.S. universities and colleges stay at the forefront of science education and research and to assist universities in the operation of advanced energy research facilities and in the performance of other educational activities.Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance and funds for training directly to nonprofit employee organizations, voluntary emergency response organizations, and joint labor-management organizations that demonstrate experience in implementing and operating worker health and safety training and education programs.Requires the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation with the Secretary of Energy, to promulgate regulations to: (1) implement a program to provide workforce training to meet the high demand for workers skilled in zero- and low-emitting carbon energy technologies and provide for related safety issues; (2) implement a fully validated electrical craft certification program, career and technology awareness at the primary and secondary education level, pre-apprenticeship career technical education for all zero- and low-emitting carbon energy technologies-related industrial skilled crafts, community college and skill center training for such technology technicians, development of construction management personnel for zero- and low-emitting carbon energy technology construction projects and regional grants for integrated zero- and low-emitting carbon energy technology workforce development programs; and (3) ensure the safety of workers in such careers.Defines "qualifying zero- and low-emitting carbon energy" to mean any technology that has a rated capacity of at least 750 megawatts of power.Subtitle G: Adaptation Program for Natural Resources in United States and Territories - (Sec. 4702) Requires funds deposited into the Adaptation Fund to be used to implement activities that assist fish and wildlife and their habitats, plants, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient, adapting to, and surviving the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.Allocates specified percentages of the Fund: (1) to the Secretary of the Interior to be made available to states through the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account to implement adaptation activities in accordance with comprehensive state adaptation strategies; (2) to the Secretary for adaptation activities carried out under endangered species, migratory bird, and other fish and wildlife programs administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and on wildlife refuges and other public land under the jurisdiction of FWS, the Bureau of Land Management, or the National Park Service or within federal water managed by the Bureau of Reclamation; (3) for adaptation activities carried out under cooperative grant programs, including the cooperative endangered species conservation fund, programs under the North American Wetlands Conservation Act, the multinational species conservation fund, the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, the Coastal Program of FWS, the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, the Landowner Incentive Program, the Wildlife Without Borders Program of FWS, and the Park Flight Migratory Bird Program of the National Park Service; (4) to the Secretary to be made available to Indian tribes to implement adaptation activities through the FWS tribal wildlife grants program ; (5) to the Land and Water Conservation Fund; (6) to the Secretary of Agriculture for use in funding adaptation activities carried out on national forests and national grasslands under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service or pursuant to the cooperative Wings Across the Americas Program; (7) to the Administrator for use in adaptation activities restoring and protecting large-scale freshwater aquatic ecosystems, large-scale estuarine ecosystems, and freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, watershed, and basins identified as priorities by the Administrator; (8) to the Secretary of the Army for use by the Corps of Engineers to implement adaptation activities restoring large-scale freshwater aquatic ecosystems, large-scale estuarine ecosystems, and freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, watershed, and basins identified as priorities by the Corps and habitats or ecosystems under programs such as the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000, project modifications for improvement of the environment, and aquatic restoration of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996; and (9) to the Secretary of Commerce for use in funding adaptation activities to protect, maintain, and restore coastal, estuarine, and marine resources, habitats and ecosystems.Requires the President: (1) within three years, to develop and implement a national strategy for assisting fish and wildlife and their habitats, plants, and associated ecological processes in becoming more resilient and adapting to the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification; and (2) to review and update the strategy every five years. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish and appoint the members of a science advisory board to: (1) advise the President and relevant federal agencies on the best available science regarding the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on fish and wildlife, habitat, plants, and associated ecological processes and scientific strategies and mechanisms for adaptation; and (2) identify and recommend priorities for ongoing research needs on those issues. Requires funds going to states to be used only for activities that are consistent with a federally approved state comprehensive adaptation strategy. Requires a state strategy to: (1) describe the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the diversity and health of the fish, wildlife and plant populations, habitats, and associated ecological processes; (2) describe and prioritize proposed conservation actions; (3) establish programs for monitoring such impacts of climate change; (4) include strategies, specific conservation actions, and a time frame for implementing conservation actions; (5) establish methods for assessing the effectiveness of conservation actions taken; and (6) be incorporated into a revision of a state's comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy. Requires state strategies to be updated at least every five years.Subtitle H: International Climate Change Adaptation and National Security Program - (Sec. 4803) Requires the Secretary of State, working with the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Administrator, to establish an International Climate Change Adaptation and National Security Program within USAID.Requires the Program to report annually to the President and specified congressional committees on: (1) the extent to which other countries are committing to reducing GHG emissions through mandatory programs; (2) the extent to which global climate change, through its potential negative impacts on sensitive populations and natural resources in least developed countries, may threaten, cause, or exacerbate political instability or international conflict in those regions; (3) the ramifications of any potentially destabilizing impacts climate change may have on U.S. economic and national security; and (4) recommendations of countries in which assistance can have the greatest and most sustainable benefit to reducing vulnerability to climate change, primarily in the form of deploying adaptation and GHG reduction technologies.(Sec. 4804) Requires the Administrator of USAID to distribute to the International Climate Change and National Security Program funds deposited into the Climate Change and National Security Fund to: (1) protect U.S. national security by minimizing, averting, or increasing resilience to potentially destabilizing climate change impacts; (2) support the development of national and regional climate change adaptation plans in least developed countries; (3) support the deployment of technologies that would help least developed countries reduce their GHG emissions and respond to such destabilizing impacts; (4) provide assistance to least developed countries and small island developing states with national or regional climate change adaptation plans in the planning, financing, and execution of adaptation projects; (5) support investments and capital to reduce vulnerability related to climate change and its impacts; (6) support climate change adaptation research in or for least developed countries; and (7) encourage the identification and adoption of appropriate low-carbon and efficient energy technologies in least developed countries. Provides that no more than 10% of such funds may be spent in any single country in a year.Subtitle I: Emergency Firefighting Programs - (Sec. 4902) Makes the amounts deposited into the Bureau of Land Management Emergency Firefighting Fund available to pay for wildland fire suppression activities with costs that are in excess of amounts annually appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Agriculture for normal, nonemergency wildland fire suppression activities. Sets forth requirements concerning reports on expenditures from such Fund.Title V: Energy Efficiency - Subtitle A: Appliance Efficiency - (Sec. 5101) Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise minimal annual fuel utilization efficiency standards for boilers. Requires boiler manufacturers to equip each hot water boiler (other than a boiler equipped with tankless domestic water heating coils) with an automatic means for adjusting the temperature of the water supplied by the boiler to ensure that an incremental change in inferred heat load produces a corresponding incremental change in the temperature of water supplies. Sets forth exceptions to such requirements.(Sec. 5102) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to establish: (1) regional standards for space heating and air conditioning products, other than window- unit air-conditioners and portable space heaters; (2) a national minimal standard for such products; and (3) two or more stringent regional standards for regions determined to have significantly differing climatic conditions. Requires the Secretary to conduct an economic justifiability study as a preliminary step in determining whether the establishment of stringent regional standards is justified. Sets forth requirements for labels that provide information about such standards on products.Subtitle B: Building Efficiency - (Sec. 5201) Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to require the Secretary of Energy to support updating the national model building energy codes and standards within three years and at least every three years thereafter to achieve overall energy savings of at least: (1) 30%, with respect to each edition of a model code or standard published during from January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2019; and (2) 50%, with respect to each edition of a model code or standard published on or after January 1, 2020. Requires targets for intermediate and subsequent years to be established by the Secretary not less than three years before the beginning of each target year at the maximum level of energy efficiency that is technologically feasible and life cycle cost-effective.Requires the Secretary: (1) to determine if a revision to the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code IECC for residential buildings or the ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1 will improve energy efficiency in buildings and meet such energy savings targets; and (2) if a code or standard does not meet the targets or if a code or standard is not updated for more than three years, to establish a modified code or standard that meets the targets. Sets forth requirements for state certifications regarding the energy efficiency of, and compliance with, state residential and commercial building codes.Requires the Secretary to provide: (1) technical assistance to ensure that national model building energy codes and standards meet the targets; (2) assistance to states to comply with this Act; and (3) incentive funding to states to improve and implement building energy efficiency codes.Requires the Secretary to provide additional funding for implementation of a plan to demonstrate a rate of compliance with applicable residential and commercial building energy efficiency codes of not less than 90% to a state or local government that has adopted and is implementing building efficiency codes that meet or exceed the requirements of the IECC and ASHRAE Standard 90.1 standards.Title VI: Global Effort to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions - (Sec. 6003) Provides that the purposes of this title are to: (1) promote a strong global effort to significantly reduce GHG emissions; (2) ensure that GHG emissions occurring outside the United States do not undermine U.S. objectives in addressing global climate change; and (3) encourage effective international action to achieve those objectives through agreements negotiated between the United States and foreign countries and measures implemented by the United States that comply with applicable international agreements.Provides that it is the policy of the United States to work proactively under the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change and to establish binding agreements committing all major GHG-emitting nations to contribute equitably to the reduction of such emissions. Declares Congress's intent that the U.S. negotiating object, in such agreements that involve measures that will affect international trade in goods or services, is to focus multilateral and bilateral international agreements on the reduction of GHG emissions to advance such purposes.(Sec. 6004) Requires the President to establish an interagency group to determine and report to the President annually beginning January 1, 2018, on the extent to which each foreign country has taken comparable action to limit GHG emissions of the foreign country.(Sec. 6005) Requires the President to determine and report to Congress annually beginning January 1, 2019, on whether each foreign country that is subject to interagency review has taken comparable action to limit its GHG emissions. (Sec. 6006) Requires the Administrator to establish a program to offer international reserve allowances for sale to U.S. importers annually beginning in 2019. Authorizes the Administrator to establish a system for the sale, exchange, purchase, transfer, and banking of international reserve allowances. Prohibits such allowances from being submitted by regulated entities to comply with domestic compliance obligations. Requires sale proceeds to be allocated to a program that the Administrator, in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall establish to mitigate the negative impacts of global climate change on disadvantaged communities in other countries.Requires the President, annually beginning January 1, 2020, to develop and publish two lists of foreign counties: (1) the excluded list of each country that has taken action comparable to that taken by the United States to limit the GHG emissions and each country whose emissions are no more than 0.5% of global GHG emissions; and (2) the list of all other countries the covered goods of which are subject to such program.Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the declarations by importers for importations or withdrawals of covered goods; and (2) the calculation of the number of reserve allowances for each unit of covered good for each country.Authorizes a U.S. importer to submit, in lieu of an international reserve allowance: (1) a foreign allowance or similar compliance instrument distributed by a foreign country pursuant to a cap and trade program that represents a comparable action; or (2) a foreign credit of a credit for an international offset project. Requires the Administrator to retire each international reserve allowance, foreign allowance, and foreign credit submitted to achieve compliance.Requires the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to adjust the international reserve allowance requirements as necessary to ensure that the United States complies with all applicable international agreements. (Sec. 6007) Requires the President, annually beginning January 1, 2023, to report to Congress on the effectiveness of the applicable international reserve allowance requirements with respect to the covered goods of each covered foreign country. Requires the President to adjust or take other action to improve the effectiveness of a requirement.Title VII: Reviews and Recommendations - (Sec. 7001) Requires the Administrator to contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for a report on: (1) the latest scientific information and data relevant to global climate change; and (2) the performance of this Act in reducing GHG emissions, mitigating the adverse impacts of global climate change, and ensuring that the Land and Water Conservation Fund receives funds that are sufficient to carry out its purposes and that BLM and the Forest Service receive funds that are sufficient to suppress wildland fire effectively and minimize wildfire damage.(Sec. 7002) Requires the Administrator to report to Congress on: (1) the latest scientific information and data relevant to the health effects of mercury emissions from coal-fired electric power generating facilities; (2) the state of technology designed to reduce mercury emissions from coal combustion; and (3) the extent to which implementation of this Act is assisting in bringing concentrations of particulate matter and ozone into line with National Ambient Air Quality Standards.(Sec. 7003) Requires the Administrator, every three years beginning January 1, 2013, to submit to Congress recommendations for action in response to the most recent NAS report.(Sec. 7004) Requires the President, by January 1, 2019, to establish an Interagency Climate Change Task Force to make public and submit to the President a consensus report making recommendations based on the third set of recommendations for action submitted by the Administrator to Congress. Requires the President, by July 1, 2020, to submit to Congress the text of a proposed Act based on such consensus report.(Sec. 7005) Requires the Administrator to: (1) conduct and report to Congress on six regional infrastructure cost assessments and a national cost assessment for adaptation to the impacts of climate change; and (2) submit to Congress a climate change adaptation plan. Requires such plan to include: (1) a prioritized list of vulnerable U.S. systems; (2) requirements for coordination between federal, state, and local governments to ensure that key public infrastructure, safety, health, and land use planning and control issues are addressed; (3) requirements for coordination among the federal government, industry, and communities; (4) requirements for management of climate change, including the need for information derived from inundation prediction systems on the impacts to coastal communities; and (5) an assessment of climate change science research needs and change technology needs.Requires the Administrator to conduct research and report on the impact of climate change on low-income populations in all countries.(Sec. 7006) Requires the Administrator to have NAS conduct a study on GHG emissions associated with the aviation industry.Title VIII: Framework for Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide - (Sec. 8001) Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator to promulgate regulations for permitting commercial scale underground injection of carbon dioxide for purposes of geological sequestration to address climate change. Sets forth reporting requirements and requirements concerning revisions of such regulations.(Sec. 8002) Requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to complete and report to specified congressional committees on a national assessment of the capacity for carbon dioxide storage.(Sec. 8003) Requires the Secretary of Energy to study the feasibility of the construction of: (1) pipelines to be used for the transportation of carbon dioxide for the purpose of sequestration or enhanced oil recovery; and (2) geological carbon dioxide sequestration facilities.(Sec. 8004) Requires the Administrator to establish a task force to study and report to Congress on the legal framework, environmental and safety considerations, and cost implications of potential federal assumption of liability with respect to closed geological storage sites. Title IX: Miscellaneous - (Sec. 9001) Authorizes the President, after public notice and comment, to temporarily adjust, suspend, or waive any regulation promulgated pursuant to this Act to minimize the effects of a national security emergency. Subjects such an emergency determination to judicial review in accordance with the Clean Air Act.(Sec. 9002) Sets forth provisions concerning judicial review and enforcement of actions made or promulgated pursuant to this Act.(Sec. 9003) Provides that this Act does not preclude or abrogate the right of states to adopt standards, caps, limitations, prohibitions, or other requirements that are more stringent than those in this Act.(Sec. 9005) Designates the University of Wyoming and Montana State University as the Rocky Mountain Centers for the Study of Coal Utilization. (Sec. 9006) Designates each sun grant center as an EPA research institution for the purpose of conducting studies regarding the effects of biofuels and biomass on national and regional compliance with the Clean Air Act. Title X: Control of Hydrofluorocarbon Consumption - (Sec. 10003) Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish a cap on U.S. HFC consumption for 2010-2050; and (2) establish and allocate a separate quantity of HFC consumption allowances. Provides that such an allowance: (1) is a limited authorization to produce or import HFCs and any product or equipment containing HFCs; and (2) does not constitute a property right. (Sec. 10004) Authorizes HFC consumption allowances and HFC destruction allowances to be used for compliance for up to five years after the allowances are allocated.Sets forth the number of HFC consumption allowances established and allocated by the Administrator for 2010-2050.(Sec. 10005) Requires the Administrator to allocate HFC consumption allowance to entities that: (1) were HFC producers or importers between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2006; and (2) are HFC producers or importers on this Act's enactment.Provides for the allocation of HFC consumption allowances.Requires the Administrator to withhold, and CCCC to auction, specified quantities of HFC consumption allowances for 2010-2049. Requires CCCC to award auction proceeds to support: (1) a program to recover and destroy the maximum economically recoverable chlorofluorocarbons, halons, and other substances listed under the Clean Air Act that have significant ozone depletion potential and global warming potential; (2) a program of incentives for consumer purchases of refrigeration and cooling equipment that contains refrigerants with no or low global warming potential and that achieves energy efficiency representing at least a 30% improvement as compared to the more efficient of the applicable federal energy efficiency standard and the Energy Star rating; (3) a program for the development and deployment of HFCs with low global warming potential and energy efficient technologies, equipment, and products containing or using HFCs; and (4) programs receiving auction proceeds under title IV. (Sec. 10006) Sets forth provisions concerning compliance obligations.(Sec. 10007) Authorizes an HFC producer or importer to purchase, hold, exchange, transfer, submit for compliance, or retire HFC consumption allowances or HFC destruction allowances.Requires the Administrator to redistribute an HFC consumption allowance retired by an HFC producer or importer to another producer or importer.Prohibits HFC consumption allowances or HFC destruction allowances from being traded or exchanged with allowances associated with any other emission allowance allocation or trading program under this Act.Prohibits HFC consumption allowances from being used to achieve compliance with any other obligation relating to emissions of GHGs regulated under this Act, and vice-versa.(Sec. 10008) Requires the allowance transfer system to permit the transfer of HFC consumption allowances prior to the allocation of allowances.(Sec. 10009) Authorizes an HFC producer or importer to: (1) borrow HFC consumption allowances from the Administrator; and (2) submit borrowed HFC consumption allowances to the Administrator to satisfy no more than 15% of its compliance obligations. (Sec. 10010) Requires the Administrator to issue HFC destruction allowances to any HFC producer or importer that performs or arranges for recovery and destruction of HFCs from products or equipment.Requires HFC destruction allowances to be issued on a global warming potential-weighted basis.Prohibits HFC destruction allowances from being issued for: (1) destruction of HFCs produced as a byproduct in a production process; or (2) destruction or recycling of HFCs produced for a purpose other than the ultimate sale and use of the product.Authorizes an HFC destruction allowance to be sold, traded, and transferred to HFC producers or importers. Prohibits HFC destruction allowances from being sold, traded, transferred, or used for compliance with any other emission allowance requirement of this Act or any other law.Title XI: Amendments to the Clean Air Act - (Sec. 11001) Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator to establish standards and requirements regarding the sale, distribution, use, disposal, or recycling of HFC substitutes for specified class I and class II substances within a year.(Sec. 11002) Prohibits any person (other than a person performing service for consideration on motor vehicle air-conditioning systems) from selling or distributing HFC substitutes that are: (1) suitable for use in a motor vehicle air-conditioning system; and (2) in a container that contains less than 20 pounds of the HFC substitute.(Sec. 11003) Requires the Administrator to: (1) establish methodologies for use in determining the lifecycle GHG emissions of all transportation fuels in commerce; (2) determine the fuel emission baseline; (3) establish a transportation fuel certification and marketing process to determine the lifecycle GHG emissions of conventional transportation fuels and renewable fuels being sold or introduced into commerce; (4) establish a requirement applicable to each fuel provider to reduce the average lifecycle GHG emissions per unit of energy of the aggregate quantity of transportation fuel produced, blended, or imported by the fuel provider to specified levels (equal to or less than the fuel emission baseline by 2011, 5% less than the fuel emission baseline by 2015, and 10% less than the fuel emission baseline by 2020); and (5) permit alternative reliable estimation methods to be used during the first five years that such requirement is in effect.Requires the Administrator to ensure, in the case of any air quality-related adverse lifecycle impact resulting from motor vehicles using renewable fuel, that gasoline containing renewable fuel does not result in: (1) average per-gallon motor vehicle emissions of air pollutants in excess of those emissions attributable to gasoline sold or introduced into commerce in 2007; or (2) a violation of any motor vehicle emission or fuel content limitation under any other provision of this Act.Requires the Administrator to revise the applicable performance standard for 2025 and each fifth year thereafter to require each fuel provider to additionally reduce the average lifecycle GHG emissions per unit of energy of the aggregate quantity of transportation fuel introduced into commerce. Authorizes the Administrator to revise such regulations to reflect or respond to changes in the transportation fuel market or other relevant circumstances.Authorizes an electricity provider to elect to participate in the advanced clean fuel program if the provider provides and separately tracks electricity for transportation through a meter that: (1) measures the electricity used for transportation separately from electricity used for other purposes; and (2) allows for load management and time-of-use rates. Requires the advanced clean fuel program to permit fuel providers to receive credits for achieving greater reductions in lifecycle GHG emissions of the fuel provided, blended, or imported than are required under such program.Prohibits limits on the ability of fuel providers to trade or bank such credits. Authorizes fuel providers to use banked credits with no discount or other adjustment to the credits. Prohibits a fuel provider from borrowing credits from future years.Permits only credits created in the production of transportation fuels to be used for the purposes of compliance with the advanced clean fuel program. Provides that nothing in this Act: (1) affects the authority of a state to establish or maintain any transportation fuel performance standard or other similar standard that is more stringent than a standard established under this program; or (2) supersedes or otherwise affects any more stringent requirement under any other provision of the Clean Air Act.Authorizes the Administrator to control or prohibit the manufacture, introduction into commerce, offering for sale, or sale of any fuel or fuel additive for use in a motor vehicle, motor vehicle engine, or nonroad engine or nonroad vehicle if any fuel or fuel additive or emission product of such fuel or fuel additive causes or contributes to air or water pollution (including any degradation in the quality of groundwater) that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health or welfare.

climate security act title tracking emissions sec requires administrator environmental_protection_agency epa establish federal greenhouse gas ghg registry establish advisory body broadly representative private enterprise agriculture environmental groups state tribal local governments guide development management registry publish information contained registry internet information vital national security confidential business information cause significant competitive harm provides information relating ghg emissions shall considered confidential business information defines ghg emissions mean emissions ghg including stationary combustion source emissions combustion fuels stationary equipment process emissions chemical physical processes combustion fugitive emissions equipment leaks emissions resulting biological processes anaerobic requires affected facility submit periodic reports administrator inclusion registry including annual quarterly data quantity type fossil fuels extracted produced refined imported exported consumed quantity hydrofluorocarbons hfcs perfluorocarbons sulfur hexafluoride nitrous oxide carbon dioxide captured sequestered ghgs generated produced imported exported consumed quantity electricity generated imported exported consumed quantity ghgs emitted imported exported consumed electricity generated aggregate quantity ghg emissions including stationary combustion source emissions process emissions fugitive emissions ghg emissions expressed metric tons ghg emitted quantity carbon dioxide equivalents ghg emitted sources ghg emissions certification accuracy completeness reported data requires administrator verify completeness accuracy report including information registry requires affected facility provide information sufficient administrator verify fossil fuel ghg emission data completely accurately reported ensure submission retention years data sources information internal control activities information assumptions reporting emissions fuels uncertainty analyses defines affected facility mean covered facility facility emits ghg option administrator vehicle fleet emissions carbon dioxide equivalents year assuming double counting emissions excludes term facility covered facility owned operated small business emits fewer carbon dioxide equivalents year defines covered facility mean facility uses tons coal year natural gas processing plant produces natural gas alaska imports natural gas including liquefied natural gas produces imports coal based liquid gaseous fuel combustion emit group ghg assuming capture sequestration gas produces sale distribution imports year carbon dioxide equivalents chemicals group ghg assuming capture destruction sequestration gas emits byproduct production hydrochlorofluorocarbons carbon dioxide equivalents hfcs year defines facility mean buildings structures installations located contiguous adjacent properties entity united_states option administrator activity operation emits carbon dioxide equivalents year technical connection activities carried facility conducted located facility property defines group ghg mean carbon dioxide methane nitrous oxide sulfur hexafluoride perfluorocarbon defines group mean hfcs authorized administrator determine certain sources facility considered eligible minimis exemption reporting requirements level ghgs emitted qualify exemption requires affected facility submit required annual data march baseline period quarterly data later days end applicable quarter subsequent year authorizes administrator waive reporting requirements specific facilities administrator determines sufficient equally reliable data available provisions law requires administrator information provided affected facility prescribe methods estimate emissions facility reflecting highest emission levels reasonably occurred appropriate enforcement action sec authorizes administrator bring civil action district court owner operator affected facility fails comply reporting requirements subjects person violating reporting requirements civil penalty day violation subtitle reducing emissions sec requires administrator establish separate quantity emission allowances authorization emit carbon dioxide equivalents ghg provides emission allowance property right sets forth emission allowances declining cap ghgs requires owner operator covered facility submit administrator emission allowance offset allowance awarded electric load serving entities international emission allowance carbon dioxide equivalent group ghg emitted use coal preceding year group ghg assuming capture sequestration emitted use coal based liquid gaseous fuel produced imported preceding year group ghg produced sale distribution imported preceding year group emitted byproduct production group ghg assuming capture destruction sequestration emitted use natural gas processed imported produced field use natural gas liquids processed imported preceding year requires administrator retire emission allowances immediately receipt determine owners operators covered facilities compliance requirements concerning emission allowances preceding year july administrator establish distribute feedstock credits entities coal based product natural gas natural gas liquid feedstock quantity allowances submitted feedstock minus number carbon dioxide equivalents ghg facility released atmosphere feedstock requires administrator establish distribute owners operators covered facilities subject submission requirements geologically sequestered carbon dioxide years quantities emission allowances equal number metric tons carbon dioxide owners operators sequestered entities destroyed ghgs years quantity emission allowances equal number carbon dioxide equivalents ghg destroyed sets forth excess emission penalties requires administrator deposit penalty receipts treasury makes owners operators covered facilities fail submit emission allowances deadline year liable offset excess emissions equal quantity following year longer period administrator prescribe requires owners operators submit plan achieve required offsets administrator states covered facilities located requires plan considered condition operating permit covered facility requires administrator deduct emission allowances equal excess emissions facility requires owner operator facility liable penalty offset pay penalty provide plan offset excess emissions requires administrator years expand definition covered facility ensure inclusion ghg emissions natural gas emitted flared production processing sold use united_states title managing containing costs efficiently subtitle trading sec allows lawful holder emission allowance sell exchange transfer submit compliance retire allowance sec prohibits privilege purchasing holding selling exchanging retiring emission allowances restricted owners operators covered requires administrator promulgate regulations implement provisions relating emission allowances months including regulations governing transfer allowances subtitle banking sec provides passage time shall cause emission allowance retired diminish compliance value subtitle borrowing sec requires administrator years promulgate regulations owner operator covered facility borrow emission allowances specific future year administrator submit borrowed emission allowances administrator satisfaction compliance obligation prior year prohibits allowances borrowed year years earlier sets forth provisions governing repayment borrowed allowances subtitle offsets sec requires secretary agriculture acting chief natural_resources_conservation_service chief forest_service administrator extension_service land grant colleges universities establish outreach initiative provide information agricultural producers agricultural organizations foresters landowners opportunities act earn new revenue authorizes initiative include creation development regional marketing centers coordination existing centers requires secretary agriculture years publish handbook achieving reporting registering marketing offsets use agricultural producers agricultural cooperatives foresters landowners offset buyers stakeholders requires secretary ensure handbook electronically available includes electronic forms calculation tools facilitate petition process offset project approval distributed widely land grant colleges authorizes owner operator covered entity beginning satisfy total allowance submission requirement submitting offset allowances requires administrator months conjunction secretary agriculture promulgate regulations authorizing issuance certification offset allowances requires regulations require owner project establish project baseline register emissions offsets sources ghgs linked agricultural forestry land use related projects authorize issuance certification offset allowances ghg emission reductions project baseline ensure offsets represent real verifiable additional permanent enforceable reduction ghg emissions increases sequestration requires regulations offsets certain agricultural forestry land use related projects ensure offsets represent real verifiable additional permanent enforceable reductions ghg emissions increases biological sequestration specify types offset projects eligible generate offset allowances ensure offsets mitigating compensating provides initial ownership offset alliance lies project developer specified legally binding contract agreement authorizes offset allowances sold traded transferred conditions offset allowances expired retired canceled liability responsibility mitigating compensating registered offset allowances limits offset allowances agricultural forestry land use related projects allowances achieving offset ghgs method reduction combustion ghg emitting fuel sets forth categories eligible offset authorizes project developer submit petition offset project approval following effective date domestic offset requirements prohibits developers registering issuing offset allowances approval received emission reductions supporting offset allowances occurred requires monitoring quantification plan monitor quantify discount reductions ghg emissions increases sequestration requires monitoring quantification plan completed offset projects prior offset project initiation retained project developer duration offset project requires administrator conjunction secretary agriculture specify required components monitoring quantification plan requires administrator reviewing petitions seek exclude activity integrity offset program conversion clearing land marked change management regime anticipation offset project initiation sets forth requirements ghg initiation certification requires determination result activities behavior inconsistent trading permitted act significant deviation exists average annual ghg flux carbon stock ghg flux carbon stock given year administrator case significant deviation adjust number allowances awarded administrator develop standardized methods accounting uncertainty estimating baseline discounting leakage eligible offset project require leakage reductions ghg emissions increases sequestration attributable project defines mean extent reductions ghg emissions increases sequestration incremental business usual measured difference baseline ghg offset project defines leakage mean significant unaccounted increase ghg emissions caused offset project produces accounted reduction ghg emissions significant unaccounted decrease sequestration caused offset project results accounted increase authorizes offset allowances claimed net emission reductions increases sequestration annually accounting necessary discounts submitting verification report offset project administrator sets forth regulations concerning party verification offset projects related reporting requirements requires administrator establish mechanisms appeal review determinations offsets verification reports satisfy directs administrator require submission reversal certification offset project annual basis following registration offset allowances requires reversal certification state reversal relating offset project occurred preceding year quantity reversal requires administrator declare invalid offset allowances issued offset project undergone complete reversal render invalid offset allowances issued offset project direct proportion degree reversal case offset project undergone partial reversal places liability responsibility compensation reversal registered offset owner offset allowance provides compensation authorizes project developer cease participation domestic offset program condition registered allowances awarded increases sequestration compensated developer submission equal number offset emission requires administrator years conjunction secretary agriculture promulgate regulations governing examination auditing offset authorizes offset project commences operation effective date regulations generate offset allowances authorizes administrator allow transition registry offset projects offset allowances registered meet standards ghg registry federal state private reporting programs registries administrator determines offset projects offset allowances programs registries satisfy applicable offset requirements makes offset allowance expired retired canceled offset program registry market ineligible transition requires administrator promulgating offset regulations act conjunction secretary agriculture avoid minimize adverse effects human health environment resulting implementation offset projects requires administrator years conjunction secretary agriculture report congress incentives programs policies capable fostering improvements human health environment conjunction implementation offset projects requires administrator months conjunction secretary agriculture promulgate regulations selection use storage native nonnative plant materials ensure native plant materials given primary consideration accordance applicable department_of_agriculture guidance use native plant materials prohibit use state designated noxious weeds prohibit use species listed regional state invasive plant council applicable region requires administrator conjunction secretary agriculture review revise offset regulations years periodically requires administrator january establish new qualifying levels requirements energy_star certification retail carbon offsets effective january defines retail carbon offset mean carbon credit carbon offset satisfaction mandatory compliance obligation regulatory system reducing ghg emissions subtitle international emission allowances sec authorizes owner operator covered facility satisfy allowance submission requirement submitting emission allowances obtained foreign ghg emissions trading requires administrator years taking consideration protocols adopted accordance united_nations_framework_convention_on_climate_change promulgate regulations approving use emission allowances foreign ghg emissions trading markets permitting use international emission allowances requires regulations require order approved use emission allowance shall issued foreign country pursuant governmental program imposes mandatory absolute tonnage limits ghg emissions country industry sectors country governmental program comparable program established requires owner operator covered facility submits international emission allowance certify allowance retired use registry applicable foreign country subtitle carbon market efficiency board sec provides purposes subtitle ensure imposition limits ghg emissions significantly harm economy establish ensure implementation maintenance stable functioning efficient market emission establishes promote purposes observe national ghg emission market evaluate periods cost emission allowances provided federal law pose significant harm economy requires board submit president congress publish internet quarterly independent reports status emission allowance market economic costs benefits market regional industrial consumer responses market energy investment responses corrective measures carried relieve excessive net costs market plans compensate measures ensure long term emission reduction goals act achieved instances effects actual potential fraud manipulation market board requires board collect analyze relevant market information promote understanding dynamics emission allowance market designates information gathering primary activity board initial year period operation requires board assume authority implement cost relief measures period requires board study markets tradable permits emit covered ghgs submit publish report status market specifically respect volatility average price emission allowances initial year period carry cost relief measures relating emission allowance market established act board determines market poses significant harm economy increase quantity emission allowances covered facilities borrow prescribed allocations covered facilities future years subsequent action initial year period market operation board determines average daily closing price emission allowances day period exceeds upper range estimate costs economy limiting ghg emissions requires board submit president congress quarterly reports status emission allowance market related authorizes board expiration board initial year period operation implement following cost relief measures ensure functioning stable efficient markets emission allowances increase quantity emission allowances covered facilities borrow prescribed allocations covered facilities future years expand period covered facility repay administrator emission allowance lower interest rate emission allowance borrowed increase quantity emission allowances obtained foreign ghg emissions trading market owner operator covered facility use satisfy allowance submission requirement covered facility condition administrator certified market increase quantity offset allowances generated owner operator covered facility use satisfy total allowance submission requirement expand total quantity emission allowances available covered facilities given time borrowing total allowable quantity emission allowances provided future years requires board determination implement cost relief measure allow applicable allocation year exercise incrementally needed avoid significant economic harm applicable allocation year specify terms relief achieved submit report board actions recommendations terms measure authorized congress carried federal entities evaluate end applicable allocation year actions need implemented subsequent years compensate measure carried applicable allocation year requires board increase quantity emission allowances available applicable allocation year board implements cost relief measure results expansion borrowing emission allowances average daily closing price emission allowances day period beginning date borrowing expanded exceeds upper range estimated costs limiting ghg emissions requires increase apply covered facilities equal total quantity emission allowances available applicable allocation year remain effect applicable allocation year specify date repayment covered facilities later years increase provided authorizes board levy owners operators covered facilities assessment sufficient pay board estimated expenses salaries sec requires director congressional_budget_office cbo report congress july projected price range emission allowances expected trade year period initial ghg emission market impact market economy title iii allocating distributing allowances subtitle auctions sec requires administrator days allocate emission allowances established emission allowances established emissions established established requires administrator april annually allocate percentage emission allowances annual auctioning subtitle early action sec requires administrator years recognition actions taken january resulted verified credible reductions ghg emissions allocate owners operators covered facilities facilities emit ghgs emission allowances established emission allowances established emission allowances established emission allowances established emission allowances established sec requires administrator year establish procedures standards distributing emission allowances owners operators covered facilities facilities emit ghgs requires procedures standards provide consideration verified credible emission reductions registered enactment act climate leaders program voluntary ghg reduction program epa department_of_energy doe energy_information_administration state regional ghg emission reduction programs include systems tracking verifying greenhouse gas emission reductions voluntary entity programs resulted entity wide reductions ghg emissions requires administrator years distribute emission allowances allocated early action taken states sec requires administrator april annually allocate following calendar year states subject utilities deliver gas electricity states regulations automatically adjust rates charged utilities fully recover fixed costs service regard actual sales higher lower forecast rates based cost effective energy efficiency expenditures investor owned natural gas electric utilities rewarding shareholders power energy purchases expenditures new energy supplies infrastructure requires administrator january annually allocate following year states compliance energy_conservation_and_production_act national model building energy codes requires administrator april annually allocate following year states enacted statewide ghg emission reduction targets stringent nationwide targets imposed covered facilities aggregate ghg emission limitations stringent imposed requires administrator april annually allocate following year states mitigating impacts low income energy consumers promoting energy efficiency promoting investment non emitting electricity generation technology improving public transportation passenger rail service promoting reductions vehicle miles traveled encouraging advances energy technology reduce sequester ghg emissions addressing local regional impacts climate change collecting evaluating disseminating information necessary affected coastal communities adapt climate change mitigating obstacles investment new entrants electricity generation markets energy intensive manufacturing sectors addressing local regional impacts local climate change policy mitigating impacts energy intensive industries internationally competitive markets reducing hazardous fuels preventing suppressing wildland fire funding rural municipal agricultural water projects consistent sustainable use water resources mitigating negative economic impacts result global warming new regulatory requirements result act provides distribution allowances requires state retire use emission allowances increasing recycling rates requires administrator years consultation secretary interior establish program deliver assistance tribal communities united_states face disruption result global climate change distribute year tribal governments communities requires administrator april annually allocate following year states operating costs state municipal mass transit systems efforts increase mass transit service ridership efforts increase efficiency mass transit systems development purchase deployment innovative technologies reduce emissions ghgs provides use allowances subtitle electricity consumers sec requires administrator april annually allocate load serving entities following year defines load serving entity mean entity obligation deliver electricity retail consumers rates costs regulated state agency regulatory commission municipality public utility district case registered electric cooperative provides distribution use allowances requires proceeds sale allowances mitigate economic impacts low- middle income energy consumers promote energy efficiency energy consumers prohibits entities proceeds provide rebates consumers based quantity electricity sets forth reporting requirements load serving entities accept emission allowances subtitle sec requires administrator april annually allocate natural gas local distribution companies following year mitigating economic impacts low- middle income energy consumers promoting energy efficiency energy consumers provides distribution use allowances prohibits companies proceeds sale allowances provide rebates consumers based quantity natural gas sets forth reporting requirements companies accept emission allowances subtitle sec requires administrator years establish bonus allowance account allocate emission allowances established requires carbon capture sequestration project order eligible receive allowances sequester carbon dioxide capture unit allowances allocated geological formation permitted administrator purpose accordance safe drinking water act begun operations january december sets forth emission performance standards projects authorizes adjust emission performance standard project electric generation unit uses coal lignite petroleum coke significant provides distribution allowances bonus allowance provides project receive allowances years operation unit covered project began operating january domestic agriculture forestry sec requires administrator april annually allocate secretary use achieving real verifiable additional permanent enforceable reductions ghg emissions increases ghg sequestration agriculture forestry sectors economy requires secretary agriculture report congress status research agricultural forestry ghg management requires president secretary agriculture initiate program conduct additional research necessary provides distribution allowances subtitle sec requires administrator april annually allocate distribute following year use implementing forest carbon activities requires administrator years promulgate eligibility requirements forest carbon activities directed reducing emissions deforestation forest degradation sequestration carbon restoration forests degraded land afforestation improved forest management requires administrator identify periodically update list countries demonstrated capacity participate international forest carbon activities capped ghg emissions established national emission reference scenario based historical data commenced emission reduction program forest sector list countries achieved national level reductions deforestation degradation historical reference scenario demonstrated reductions remote sensing technology meets international standards provides forest carbon activity reduction deforestation forest degradation eligible distribution emission allowances subject quality criteria requires administrator respect countries lists recognize forest carbon activities encourages administrator identify incentives encourage developing countries protect native requires administrator review international forest protection years years authorizes administrator beginning years act enactment apply discount distribution emission allowances countries aggregate account global ghg emissions capped emissions established emissions reference scenarios based historical data reduced total forest emissions subtitle transition assistance sec requires administrator april annually january allocate specified percentages following year transition assistance fossil fuel fired electric power generating facilities rural electric cooperatives owners operators energy intensive manufacturing facilities facilities produce import petroleum based fuel hfc producers importers provides distribution allowances requirements concerning allowances facilities shut requires administrator set aside quantity emission allowances distribution owners operators new entrant fossil fuel fired electric power generating requires administrator establish pilot program distributing total number emission allowances allocated rural electric cooperatives specified states provides distribution allowances states sets forth program reporting provides distribution allowances available allocation energy intensive manufacturing facilities currently operating facilities subtitle reducing methane emissions landfills coal mines sec requires administrator april annually allocate following year program achieving real verifiable additional permanent enforceable reductions emissions methane landfills coal mines provides distribution allowances title auctions uses auction proceeds subtitle funds sec establishes treasury climate change worker training fund bureau_of_land_management blm emergency firefighting fund climate security act management fund subtitle climate change credit corporation sec establishes nonprofit corporation stock shall considered agency establishment federal requires comptroller general united_states annually beginning january review audit expenditure title subtitle auctions sec requires begin auctioning emission allowances year complete auctioning allowances december requires proceeds auctioning implement energy technology deployment programs provides annual auctions distribution use proceeds climate security act management fund energy technology deployment programs subtitle energy technology deployment sec requires competitively award financial incentives technology categories production electricity new low carbon generation manufacture high efficiency consumer products facility establishment conversion manufacturers component suppliers technology defines low carbon generation mean generation electricity electric generation unit emits carbon dioxide atmosphere fossil fuel fired emits atmosphere pounds carbon dioxide megawatt hour placed commercial service act provides demonstration projects advanced coal generation technology large scale geological carbon storage projects store carbon dioxide captured electric generation units defines advanced coal generation technology mean advanced coal fueled power plant technology meets specified performance standards limiting carbon dioxide emissions electric generation unit annual average basis authorizes adjust standards project electric generation unit uses coal lignite petroleum coke significant requires provide deployment incentives encourage projects domestically produce transportation fuels cellulosic biomass relying different feedstocks different regions requires incentives provided competitive basis projects domestically produce fuels meet fuel emission specifications help diversify domestic transportation energy supplies improve maintain air water soil habitat quality protect water supplies authorizes incentives consist loan guarantees construction production facilities supporting infrastructure production payments reverse requires provide facility conversion funding awards automobile manufacturers component suppliers pay costs reequipping expanding existing manufacturing facility produce qualifying advanced technology vehicles qualifying components engineering integration qualifying vehicles qualifying components requires awards apply facilities equipment placed service january engineering integration costs incurred act enactment limits maximum awards prohibits making award manufacturers compliance corporate average fuel economy standards requires manufacturers receive awards certify complying specified employment standards defines advanced technology vehicle mean electric vehicle fuel cell powered vehicle hybrid plug hybrid electric vehicle advanced diesel light duty motor vehicle meets tier bin lower numbered emission standard established clean air act new emission standard fine particulate matter prescribed administrator act standard average base year combined fuel economy vehicles substantially similar nature footprint defines combined fuel economy mean combined city highway miles gallon values reported accordance federal regulation case electric drive vehicle ability recharge board source reported mileage petroleum equivalence factor board electricity defined secretary requires use specified percentages funding support demonstration projects sustainable energy technology provide financial incentives facilitate deployment sustainable energy technology subtitle energy consumers sec requires specified percentages funds deposited available low income home energy assistance program established low income home energy assistance act weatherization assistance program low income persons established energy conservation production act rural energy assistance requires secretary energy implement program provide financial assistance promote availability reasonably priced distributed electricity grid rural regions electricity prices exceed national average subtitle climate change worker training program sec requires secretary labor establish climate change worker training program creates sustainable comprehensive public program provides quality training linked jobs created low carbon energy sustainable energy energy efficiency initiatives satisfies industry demand skilled workforce supports economic growth global competitiveness united_states expanding low carbon energy sustainable energy energy efficiency industries provides economic self sufficiency family sustaining jobs workers quality training placement job opportunities industries provides funds federal state industry wide research labor market information labor exchange programs development state administered training requires secretary labor acting bureau_of_labor_statistics provide assistance support national research develop labor market data track future workforce trends resulting energy related initiatives requires secretary award competitive national energy training partnership grants enable entities implement national training leads economic self sufficiency develop low carbon energy sustainable energy energy efficiency industries workforce sets forth grant eligibility requirements authorized grant activities requires secretary award competitive grants enable states administer labor market labor exchange information programs low carbon energy sustainable energy energy efficiency workforce development programs sets forth authorized grant activities grant eligibility applies provisions workforce investment act concerning workforce investment system administration programs carried climate change worker training program requires labor organization represents substantial number workers engaged similar work training area area proposed funded program provided opportunity consulted submit comments regard requires specified percentage funds doe help universities colleges stay science education research assist universities operation advanced energy research facilities performance educational activities requires secretary provide technical assistance funds training directly nonprofit employee organizations voluntary emergency response organizations joint labor management organizations demonstrate experience implementing operating worker health safety training education programs requires secretary labor cooperation secretary energy promulgate regulations implement program provide workforce training meet high demand workers skilled low emitting carbon energy technologies provide related safety issues implement fully validated electrical craft certification program career technology awareness primary secondary education level pre apprenticeship career technical education low emitting carbon energy technologies related industrial skilled crafts community college skill center training technology technicians development construction management personnel low emitting carbon energy technology construction projects regional grants integrated low emitting carbon energy technology workforce development programs ensure safety workers careers defines qualifying low emitting carbon energy mean technology rated capacity megawatts power subtitle adaptation program natural resources united_states territories sec requires funds deposited implement activities assist fish wildlife habitats plants associated ecological processes resilient adapting surviving impacts climate change ocean acidification allocates specified percentages fund secretary interior available states implement adaptation activities accordance comprehensive state adaptation strategies secretary adaptation activities carried endangered species migratory bird fish wildlife programs administered fws wildlife refuges public land jurisdiction fws bureau_of_land_management national_park_service federal water managed bureau_of_reclamation adaptation activities carried cooperative grant programs including cooperative endangered species conservation fund programs north_american_wetlands_conservation_act multinational species conservation fund national_fish_habitat_action_plan partners wildlife borders program fws park flight migratory bird program national_park_service secretary available indian tribes implement adaptation activities fws tribal wildlife grants program land_and_water_conservation_fund secretary agriculture use funding adaptation activities carried national forests national jurisdiction forest_service pursuant cooperative administrator use adaptation activities restoring protecting large scale freshwater aquatic ecosystems large scale estuarine ecosystems freshwater estuarine ecosystems watershed basins identified priorities administrator secretary army use corps_of_engineers implement adaptation activities restoring large scale freshwater aquatic ecosystems large scale estuarine ecosystems freshwater estuarine ecosystems watershed basins identified priorities corps habitats ecosystems programs estuary restoration act project modifications improvement environment aquatic restoration water_resources_development_act secretary commerce use funding adaptation activities protect maintain restore coastal estuarine marine resources habitats ecosystems requires president years develop implement national strategy assisting fish wildlife habitats plants associated ecological processes resilient adapting impacts climate change ocean acidification review update strategy years requires secretary interior establish appoint members science advisory board advise president relevant federal agencies best available science impacts climate change ocean acidification fish wildlife habitat plants associated ecological processes scientific strategies mechanisms adaptation identify recommend priorities ongoing research needs issues requires funds going states activities consistent federally approved state comprehensive adaptation strategy requires state strategy describe impacts climate change ocean acidification diversity health fish wildlife plant populations habitats associated ecological processes describe prioritize proposed conservation actions establish programs monitoring impacts climate change include strategies specific conservation actions time frame implementing conservation actions establish methods assessing effectiveness conservation actions taken incorporated revision state comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy requires state strategies updated years subtitle international climate change adaptation national security program sec requires secretary state working administrator international_development usaid administrator establish national security program report annually president specified congressional committees extent countries committing reducing ghg emissions mandatory programs extent global climate change potential negative impacts sensitive populations natural resources developed countries threaten cause political instability international conflict regions ramifications potentially destabilizing impacts climate change economic national security recommendations countries assistance greatest sustainable benefit reducing vulnerability climate change primarily form deploying adaptation ghg reduction requires administrator usaid distribute funds deposited protect national security minimizing increasing resilience potentially destabilizing climate change impacts support development national regional climate change adaptation plans developed countries support deployment technologies help developed countries reduce ghg emissions respond destabilizing impacts provide assistance developed countries small island developing states national regional climate change adaptation plans planning financing execution adaptation projects support investments capital reduce vulnerability related climate change impacts support climate change adaptation research developed countries encourage identification adoption appropriate low carbon efficient energy technologies developed countries provides funds spent single country year subtitle emergency firefighting programs sec makes amounts deposited available pay wildland fire suppression activities costs excess amounts annually appropriated secretary interior secretary agriculture normal nonemergency wildland fire suppression activities sets forth requirements concerning reports expenditures fund title energy efficiency subtitle appliance efficiency sec amends energy_policy_and_conservation_act revise minimal annual fuel utilization efficiency standards boilers requires boiler manufacturers equip hot water boiler boiler equipped domestic water heating automatic means adjusting temperature water supplied boiler ensure incremental change heat load produces corresponding incremental change temperature water supplies sets forth exceptions authorizes secretary energy establish regional standards space heating air conditioning products unit air conditioners portable space heaters national minimal standard products stringent regional standards regions determined significantly climatic conditions requires secretary conduct economic study preliminary step determining establishment stringent regional standards justified sets forth requirements labels provide information standards products subtitle building efficiency sec amends energy_conservation_and_production_act require secretary energy support updating national model building energy codes standards years years achieve overall energy savings respect model code standard published january december respect model code standard published january requires targets intermediate subsequent years established secretary years beginning target year maximum level energy efficiency technologically feasible life cycle cost effective requires secretary determine revision residential buildings ies standard improve energy efficiency buildings meet energy savings targets code standard meet targets code standard updated years establish modified code standard meets targets sets forth requirements state certifications energy efficiency compliance state residential commercial building codes requires secretary provide technical assistance ensure national model building energy codes standards meet targets assistance states comply act incentive funding states improve implement building energy efficiency codes requires secretary provide additional funding implementation plan demonstrate rate compliance applicable residential commercial building energy efficiency codes state local government adopted implementing building efficiency codes meet exceed requirements standard standards title sec provides purposes title promote strong global effort significantly reduce ghg emissions ensure ghg emissions occurring outside united_states undermine objectives addressing global climate change encourage effective international action achieve objectives agreements negotiated united_states foreign countries measures implemented united_states comply applicable international agreements provides policy united_states work proactively climate change establish binding agreements committing major ghg emitting nations contribute equitably reduction emissions declares congress intent negotiating object agreements involve measures affect international trade goods services focus multilateral bilateral international agreements reduction ghg emissions advance requires president establish interagency group determine report president annually beginning january extent foreign country taken comparable action limit ghg emissions foreign requires president determine report congress annually beginning january foreign country subject interagency review taken comparable action limit ghg emissions sec requires administrator establish program offer international reserve allowances sale importers annually beginning authorizes administrator establish system sale exchange purchase transfer banking international reserve allowances prohibits allowances submitted regulated entities comply domestic compliance obligations requires sale proceeds allocated program administrator coordination secretary state shall establish mitigate negative impacts global climate change disadvantaged communities countries requires president annually beginning january develop publish lists foreign counties excluded list country taken action comparable taken united_states limit ghg emissions country emissions global ghg emissions list countries covered goods subject program sets forth provisions governing declarations importers withdrawals covered goods calculation number reserve allowances unit covered good country authorizes importer submit lieu international reserve allowance foreign allowance similar compliance instrument distributed foreign country pursuant cap trade program represents comparable action foreign credit credit international offset project requires administrator retire international reserve allowance foreign allowance foreign credit submitted achieve compliance requires administrator consultation secretary state adjust international reserve allowance requirements necessary ensure united_states complies applicable international agreements sec requires president annually beginning january report congress effectiveness applicable international reserve allowance requirements respect covered goods covered foreign country requires president adjust action improve effectiveness requirement title vii reviews recommendations sec requires administrator contract national_academy_of_sciences nas report latest scientific information data relevant global climate change performance act reducing ghg emissions mitigating adverse impacts global climate change ensuring land_and_water_conservation_fund receives funds sufficient carry purposes blm forest_service receive funds sufficient suppress wildland fire effectively minimize wildfire requires administrator report congress latest scientific information data relevant health effects mercury emissions coal fired electric power generating facilities state technology designed reduce mercury emissions coal combustion extent implementation act assisting bringing concentrations particulate matter ozone line requires administrator years beginning january submit congress recommendations action response recent nas requires president january establish interagency climate change task force public submit president consensus report making recommendations based set recommendations action submitted administrator congress requires president july submit congress text proposed act based consensus requires administrator conduct report congress regional infrastructure cost assessments national cost assessment adaptation impacts climate change submit congress climate change adaptation plan requires plan include prioritized list vulnerable systems requirements coordination federal state local governments ensure key public infrastructure safety health land use planning control issues addressed requirements coordination federal government industry communities requirements management climate change including need information derived prediction systems impacts coastal communities assessment climate change science research needs change technology needs requires administrator conduct research report impact climate change low income populations requires administrator nas conduct study ghg emissions associated aviation industry title viii sec amends safe drinking water act require administrator promulgate regulations permitting commercial scale underground injection carbon dioxide purposes geological sequestration address climate change sets forth reporting requirements requirements concerning revisions requires secretary interior acting director united_states_geological_survey usgs complete report specified congressional committees national assessment capacity carbon dioxide requires secretary energy study feasibility construction pipelines transportation carbon dioxide purpose sequestration enhanced oil recovery geological carbon dioxide sequestration requires administrator establish task force study report congress legal framework environmental safety considerations cost implications potential federal assumption liability respect closed geological storage sites title miscellaneous sec authorizes president public notice comment temporarily adjust suspend waive regulation promulgated pursuant act minimize effects national security emergency subjects emergency determination judicial review accordance clean air sets forth provisions concerning judicial review enforcement actions promulgated pursuant provides act preclude right states adopt standards caps limitations prohibitions requirements stringent sec designates sun grant center epa research institution purpose conducting studies effects biofuels biomass national regional compliance clean air act title control consumption sec requires administrator establish cap hfc consumption establish allocate separate quantity hfc consumption allowances provides allowance limited authorization produce import hfcs product equipment containing hfcs constitute property right sec authorizes hfc consumption allowances hfc destruction allowances compliance years allowances allocated sets forth number hfc consumption allowances established allocated administrator requires administrator allocate hfc consumption allowance entities hfc producers importers january december hfc producers importers act enactment provides allocation hfc consumption allowances requires administrator withhold auction specified quantities hfc consumption allowances requires award auction proceeds support program recover destroy maximum economically recoverable chlorofluorocarbons substances listed clean air act significant ozone depletion potential global warming potential program incentives consumer purchases refrigeration cooling equipment contains low global warming potential achieves energy efficiency representing improvement compared efficient applicable federal energy efficiency standard energy star rating program development deployment hfcs low global warming potential energy efficient technologies equipment products containing hfcs programs receiving auction proceeds title sec sets forth provisions concerning compliance authorizes hfc producer importer purchase hold exchange transfer submit compliance retire hfc consumption allowances hfc destruction allowances requires administrator redistribute hfc consumption allowance retired hfc producer importer producer importer prohibits hfc consumption allowances hfc destruction allowances traded exchanged allowances associated emission allowance allocation trading program act prohibits hfc consumption allowances achieve compliance obligation relating emissions ghgs regulated act vice requires allowance transfer system permit transfer hfc consumption allowances prior allocation authorizes hfc producer importer borrow hfc consumption allowances administrator submit borrowed hfc consumption allowances administrator satisfy compliance obligations sec requires administrator issue hfc destruction allowances hfc producer importer performs arranges recovery destruction hfcs products equipment requires hfc destruction allowances issued global warming potential weighted basis prohibits hfc destruction allowances issued destruction hfcs produced byproduct production process destruction recycling hfcs produced purpose ultimate sale use product authorizes hfc destruction allowance sold traded transferred hfc producers importers prohibits hfc destruction allowances sold traded transferred compliance emission allowance requirement act law title amendments clean air act sec amends clean air act require administrator establish standards requirements sale distribution use disposal recycling hfc substitutes specified class class substances prohibits person person performing service consideration motor vehicle air conditioning systems selling distributing hfc substitutes suitable use motor vehicle air conditioning system container contains pounds hfc requires administrator establish methodologies use determining lifecycle ghg emissions transportation fuels commerce determine fuel emission baseline establish transportation fuel certification marketing process determine lifecycle ghg emissions conventional transportation fuels renewable fuels sold introduced commerce establish requirement applicable fuel provider reduce average lifecycle ghg emissions unit energy aggregate quantity transportation fuel produced blended imported fuel provider specified levels equal fuel emission baseline fuel emission baseline fuel emission baseline permit alternative reliable estimation methods years requirement effect requires administrator ensure case air quality related adverse lifecycle impact resulting motor vehicles renewable fuel gasoline containing renewable fuel result average gallon motor vehicle emissions air pollutants excess emissions attributable gasoline sold introduced commerce violation motor vehicle emission fuel content limitation provision act requires administrator revise applicable performance standard fifth year require fuel provider additionally reduce average lifecycle ghg emissions unit energy aggregate quantity transportation fuel introduced commerce authorizes administrator revise regulations reflect respond changes transportation fuel market relevant circumstances authorizes electricity provider elect participate advanced clean fuel program provider provides separately tracks electricity transportation meter measures electricity transportation separately electricity purposes allows load management time use rates requires advanced clean fuel program permit fuel providers receive credits achieving greater reductions lifecycle ghg emissions fuel provided blended imported required program prohibits limits ability fuel providers trade bank credits authorizes fuel providers use credits discount adjustment credits prohibits fuel provider borrowing credits future years permits credits created production transportation fuels purposes compliance advanced clean fuel program provides act affects authority state establish maintain transportation fuel performance standard similar standard stringent standard established program supersedes affects stringent requirement provision clean air act authorizes administrator control prohibit manufacture introduction commerce offering sale sale fuel fuel additive use motor vehicle motor vehicle engine nonroad engine nonroad vehicle fuel fuel additive emission product fuel fuel additive causes contributes air water pollution including degradation quality groundwater reasonably anticipated endanger public health welfare