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Is the Bill holding anything up? I am hoping you are at the head of the line for what is available. </div>
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The development of the sector has grown astronomically in the past four years. </div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Colleagues – Senator Collins’ bill introduced last spring mirrored the USG commitment at the time and while it authorizes funding for the agencies mentioned
in the proposed legislation, the bill remains to be enacted. That said, the funding is for the sector at large, not the Alliance directly per se, and some of these agency funds (EPA, DOE, etc.) are already in place and moving through standard USG procurement
channels to various players in the clean cookstoves and fuels sectors. The bill was not passed in the previous Congress so Collins may introduce it again in this session.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">As Ronal mentioned, the Alliance recently held its inaugural Cookstoves Future Summit in New York in November, raising more than $400 million in commitments
for the sector as a whole. You can review the specific commitments at the following
<a href="http://www.cookstovesfuturesummit.org/commitments">link</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>From:</b> "Ronal W. Larson" <<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> December 29, 2014, 7:12:02 PM EST<br>
<b>To:</b> Huck Rorick <<a href="mailto:huckrorick@groundwork.org">huckrorick@groundwork.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Discussion of biomass <<a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: [Stoves] USA senate bill on stoves</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> Discussion of biomass cooking stoves <<a href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I answer with little expertise- so hope that someone from GACC can also answer. My guess is that the last Congress’ bill has already served much of its purpose. GACC raised a large amount of money not very long ago, with the US government
(State and USAId maybe being the largest agency donors) giving the most (Canada next??). But the funding problem hasn’t gone away and stove funding is still way less than $1 billion.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">GACC is the only group I see on the horizon with an international reputation to take on this sort of funding. I wish they were doing more along the lines of this list, but they will be attending the ETHOS meeting. Some of us will be
reporting back in about a month - and can maybe better answer your good question. The important point is that the US Congress is reactive - and better stoves can be very much in the US interest. Any bill keeps an issue alive - and bills only get passed if
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">On Dec 29, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Huck Rorick <<a href="mailto:huckrorick@groundwork.org">huckrorick@groundwork.org</a>> wrote:</p>
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specifically at Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves? And doing so with funds several agencies already have?</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span class="x_apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Ronal
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>Sunday, December 28, 2014 7:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>Discussion of biomass<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Stoves] USA senate bill on stoves</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="x_apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>Our own Senators need to hear of our support for a new version of S-2100 for the 114th Congress. See:</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="x_apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>This is mostly about GACC - but included multiple agencies.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="x_apple-tab-span"> </span><span class="x_apple-converted-space"> </span>Wouldn’t hurt to have a House version as well.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">On Dec 28, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Crispin Pemberton-Pigott <<a href="mailto:crispinpigott@outlook.com"><span style="color:purple">crispinpigott@outlook.com</span></a>> wrote:</p>
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