Sentences with phrase «impacts of greenhouse gas regulations»

The report, titled «Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Regulations On the Industrial Sector,» was prepared for the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCCF) and concludes that «Regulatory measures are an inefficient way to achieve climate goals.»

«Alec is very concerned about the potential economic impact of greenhouse gas regulation on electricity prices and the harm EPA regulations may have on the economic recovery,» the resolution reads.

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The only thing that is clear is that there continues to be great debate and uncertainty among these experts regarding the extent of natural climate variability versus human impacts, and what, if anything, enactment of economy - wide greenhouse gas regulations might do to alter our changing climate.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, for instance, voted last month to require publicly traded companies to disclose to investors the potential economic impact of new greenhouse gas regulations (E&EN ews PM, Jan. 27).

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We have used the Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse - gas Induced Climate Change (MAGICC)-- a simple climate model emulator that was, in part, developed through support of the EPA — to examine the climate impact of proposed regulations.

Cato Institute scholars Patrick Michaels and Chip Knappenberger have produced a layman - friendly yet thoroughly referenced draft report summarizing «the important science that is missing from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,» a U.S. Government document underpinning the EPA's December 2009 endangerment rule, the foundation of all of the agency's greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations.

In a speech Tuesday to sell a package of regulations to limit greenhouse gases from power plants, Obama will list the ways a warming planet impacts human health now, White House officials say.

Post Reporter Juliet Eilperin claims: «As the real - world impacts of climate change begin to materialize... regulation of greenhouse gases appears more likely» — September 23, 2009)

These include energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, planning for the impacts of climate change, environmental permitting, the threat to businesses and their critical infrastructure from rising sea levels and flooding and water regulations.

Impact of significant developments in federal and state legislation and the difficulties involved in assessing the timing and effect of pending legislation, especially for registrants that are particularly sensitive to greenhouse gas regulation;

At Tuesday's House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing on Climate Science and EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulation, Dr. Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science, presented a scary assessment of global warming's impact on U.S. grain yields.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Pundits and reporters today are speculating on the election results» impact on proposed environmental regulations, including the future of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.