Sentences with phrase «senate climate debate»

I'll be writing more today on lessons from the Senate climate debate and other competing approaches to moving forward on climate policy in a way that the atmosphere might notice someday.

I read through some of the inaugural issue overnight after a hectic day tracking the Senate climate debate, closing out a piece on the falling forests of Papua New Guinea, and reporting on the release of NASA's Office of Inspector General report on politicization of climate communication at the space agency.

Not exact matches

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

The flurry of climate action comes as the Senate is debating legislation requiring Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline's movement of Canadian oil sands crude into the United States.

During last summer's funding debate, appropriators in turn rejected the breadth of these proposed cuts, though the House and Senate still disagreed on certain areas including climate research.

The big climate bill that is expected to be debated on the Senate floor very soon provides incentives for American companies to invest in rain - forest projects abroad.

After much speculation and a summer spent debating health insurance reform, the Senate is finally ready to begin work on its climate bill.

WASHINGTON — As the Senate wades back into the climate debate, the White House is enlisting some of the young voters who helped usher President Obama into office to galvanize support for the climate and energy bill.

In the footnotes is reference to an article titled «White House Climate Action Plan Hotly Debated in Senate Hearing».

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

4) Here's one resulting hypothesis of mine (perhaps unfalsifiable): The spending / influence debate, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

Another, which I've alluded to twice already — during the Bali round of negotiations and Senate floor debate on a climate bill, is «Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk, Talk,» by one of my all - time favorite musicians, T Bone Burnett (best known as a producer).

As a youth I participated in many of my father's experiments, observing first - hand the benefits of atmospheric CO2 on plant life and the manifold problems with the model - based theory of climate change, all of which events occurred long, long before James Hansen stood in front of the U.S. Senate and brought the CO2 debate to the eyes of the public in 1988.

The President's remarks will also inform the Senate - scheduled debate on climate change legislation.

Washington, DC — «The nation's mayors are disappointed that the U.S. Senate is unwilling to move beyond initial debate on needed federal climate legislation to position America to do its part to combat the global threat of climate change.»

In late July, Sen. Inhofe referenced McIntyre s work during a Senate debate on climate change, declaring, We have the Energy & Environment report that came out in 2003 that says the original Mann papers contain collation errors, unjustifiable truncations of extrapolations of source data, obsolete data...

The climate bill the Senate debated last year left a good deal of regulatory prerogative to the agency, while the draft bill the House is currently working on lays out more specific guidelines.

The Senate debate will also significantly affect the American negotiating position at climate talks, sponsored by the United Nations, that are scheduled for December in Copenhagen.

David Doniger, climate policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the introduction of the Boxer - Kerry bill on Wednesday would signal the beginning of Senate debate on climate change.

Several other Senate panels, including the Finance Committee, led by Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, will also play a major role in whatever climate change debate the Senate engages in this fall.

At precisely the moment these executives were scheduled to unveil their American Energy Innovation Council report, the Senate was to begin debating a resolution from Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R - Alaska, to block the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to regulate the carbon dioxide emissions linked to global climate change.

In the Senate debate on the repeal of the Carbon Tax, 2013/12/09, Senator Ian Macdonald has compared climate change with Y2K.

In a speech on the Senate floor this past June, he said, «Climate change is one of two or three of the most serious threats our country now faces, if not the most serious, and the silence that has enveloped a once robust debate is staggering for its irresponsibility.»

In a move that may derail a comprehensive climate change and energy bill in the Senate, one of the measure's central architects, Senator Lindsey Graham, has issued an angry protest over what he says are Democratic plans to give priority to a debate over immigration policy.

As the «Climate Shift» report finds, as has been the case historically, news attention at the five national news organizations peaked around the Copenhagen meetings, then dropped appreciably across 2010, even as cap - and - trade was being debated in the Senate.

In this year, cap and trade legislation passed in the U.S. House, debate began on a U.S. Senate version of the bill, and international climate accord meetings took place in Copenhagen.

Do we embrace the Senate energy and climate bill, to be debated this summer, which puts a penalty on pollution and propels the transition to the clean, safe energy of the 21st century?

The data also could help color a looming Senate debate on energy and climate - change legislation that would cap greenhouse gases blamed for contributing to global warming.

Andy Revkin's concern that battles over emissions restrictions are a losing political game in the Senate climate and clean energy debate, and a distraction from a more immediate need to initiate a «sustained energy quest» (DotEarth blog, New York Times,... Continue reading →

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Most parties maintained old and rigid positions and did not seek a common ground: More Team Players Needed Equally disappointing was the ongoing lack of U.S. leadership in guiding the discussion toward a deal in Copenhagen due to the Obama administration's competing priorities, including the drawn out debate on the Senate's proposed climate legislation.

The Senate held a cloture vote this morning to bring to a close debate on the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act, a vote that would have allowed the amendment process to begin.

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