H.R. 890: American Renewable Energy Act
Semester
The American Renewable Energy Act group focused on the negative impacts of coal and electricity and the foundations of the act itself. The act seeks to establish a federal renewable electricity standard for electric utilities and hopes to encourage the growth of renewable energy. The students assessed that the problems with electricity are two-fold: the demand is constantly increasing and current electricity generation has hazardous environmental impacts. The act urges utility providers to develop renewable capabilities such as wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and landfill gas, marine and hydrokinetic, or new and additional hydroelectric sources. If the act is successful, there will be an increase in renewable capacity and a decrease in both the price of renewable energy and air emissions.