Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published
U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.
Not exact matches
To give one example,
Climate Mayors is a group of
U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding
federal and global - level policymaking.»
Perhaps you also could add in a question to Marco Rubio about
climate change, given that it was put in the context of Rubio's position that «
federal efforts to fight
climate change will cost
U.S. jobs and hurt the
U.S. economy.»
Your first stop should be The National
Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based
Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the
U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other
climate - based
climate - based events.
The IEA's forecasts overlap largely with the Trump administration's pursuit of what it calls «energy dominance» — a strategy that has been visible in its rollback of various Obama - era policies this year (above all in the
U.S.'s withdrawal from the Paris
Climate Accord), and in a big expansion of
federal acreage offered for oil and gas prospecting.
The
U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to
federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's
climate change strategy.
The decision by President Donald Trump to pull the
U.S. out of the Paris
Climate Accord has pushed environmentalists to file several lawsuits against the
federal Environmental Protection Agency.
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climate change [June 28
climate change [June 28, 2016]
Transportation emissions threaten to undercut blue states»
climate goals, raising questions about their ability to lead
U.S. climate efforts at a time when the
federal government is rolling back environmental regulations.
Also, FDA clears the party drug ecstasy for post-traumatic stress disorder clinical trials, and
U.S. courts rule that the
federal government must consider the impacts of major energy projects on
climate change.
More than a dozen
federal agencies, including the
U.S. Geological Survey, the Interior Department and the Department of Energy, conduct
climate research.
But a number of
federal research programs and projects remain in Trump's cross hairs, including five of NASA's Earth science missions and various research, including on
climate or environmental science, at the EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the
U.S. Geological Survey.
One big challenge to
U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a
federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major
climate change initiative, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.
«Yet the
U.S. has no national
climate change preparedness strategy; and
Federal efforts to address the rising risks have been undermined through budget cuts and other means.»
Orr, who is also the dean of the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, said
U.S. cities and states lead the world in important aspects of
climate resilience and mitigation precisely because the Trump administration has rolled back
federal ambition.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the lead
federal agency on the report for the
U.S. Global Change Research Program, which produced Volume 1 of the 4th National
Climate Assessment.
A 1990 law, known as the Global Change Research Act, requires
federal agencies to provide an overview of the latest
climate science and a thorough review of the impact of
climate change throughout the
U.S. to the president and the Congress every four years.
While
U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the
federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat
climate change's impact on infrastructure.
«The massive transformations underway in the
U.S. electricity sector will likely continue, but they won't be driven by
federal climate policy,» depending instead on state policy and technical innovation, he said.
Its revision by the Trump administration is part of a broader shift within the
federal government to downplay the impacts of
climate change and will have important implications for how
U.S. EPA regulates greenhouse gases.
«We're using
climate data that the
U.S. federal government supports, so it's freely available and you can go and find it, rather than needing an academic or scientist to look through a microscope and find it for you.»
The White House's proposed «America First» budget forcefully kicks many
federal climate - related energy programs to the curb, representing a possible turn away from renewable energy and a broad disinvestment in the research and development needed to transform the
U.S. energy system into one better able to adapt to
climate change.
While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys,
federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight
climate change, according to
U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.
In fact, a growing number of
Federal agencies (
U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, CDC, SAMHSA and IES), state departments of education (Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Massachusetts) and large and small districts (from Chicago to Westbrook, Connecticut) are developing school
climate policies and / or laws that support students, parents / guardians, school personnel and even community members learning and working together to create safer, more supportive, engaging and flourishing K - 12 schools.
The guidance — jointly released by the
U.S. attorney general and the secretary of education on January 8 — includes specific examples that demonstrate how schools can administer student discipline without discrimination, guiding principles that detail discipline best practices, information about
federal school discipline and
climate technical assistance, and an online catalog of school discipline laws and regulations for each of the 50 states.
A gold - standard study funded by the
U.S. Department of Education, the
federal Centers for Disease Control, and the W.T. Grant Foundation has demonstrated that The 4Rs Program has a significant positive effect on children's social, emotional, and academic competency, and on classroom
climate.
They undermine action on
climate change and environmental protections; promote school privatization; defund unions and stop progressive wage and benefits policies; and, among other things, call for a convention to amend the
U.S. Constitution to restrict the
federal budget.
The
U.S. federal government has announced its intention to pull the United States out of the Paris
Climate Agreement.
A
federal judge in San Francisco has ordered parties in a landmark global warming lawsuit to hold what could be the first - ever
U.S. court hearing on the science of
climate change....
But it is clear that policies toward construction insurance, and
federal disaster relief play the dominant role in setting up the
U.S. for a string of natural disasters stretching as far as one can see into the future, with or without
climate change.
The
U.S. Global Change Research Program, composed of 13
federal agencies, reported in 2009 that
climate - related changes are already being observed in every region of the world, including the United States and its coastal waters.
I don't see any evidence that
climate science is driving public policy in the
U.S. (at least not on the
federal level).
Re # 585 I wrote, «I don't see any evidence that
climate science is driving public policy in the
U.S. (at least not on the
federal level).»
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.»
The co-chairs of the
U.S. Climate Alliance - Governor Cuomo, Governor Jerry Brown of California, Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, along with former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - spoke at a news conference in New York as part of Climate Week where they highlighted how states are stepping in to fill the void of climate action left by the federal gove
Climate Alliance - Governor Cuomo, Governor Jerry Brown of California, Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, along with former
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry - spoke at a news conference in New York as part of
Climate Week where they highlighted how states are stepping in to fill the void of climate action left by the federal gove
Climate Week where they highlighted how states are stepping in to fill the void of
climate action left by the federal gove
climate action left by the
federal government.
The
U.S. Global Change Research Program provides
federal funding through the key research agencies to support
climate and global change research and observing systems.
She led local field work collaboration with our partners toward passing a
federal climate bill, and is currently working to ensure we stop any coal export from the
U.S. West Coast.
Meanwhile,
U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch recently acknowledged that the Department of Justice is contemplating using a
federal law originally created to fight organized crime to prosecute
climate skeptics.
If the
U.S. government thought NASA
climate scientist James Hansen has been a thorn in its side, just wait until he quits his job and becomes a full - time activist ready to take a more active role in lawsuits challenging the
federal and state governments over their failure to limit emissions.
Judicial review is about to meet peer review in a
federal courtroom in San Francisco, where sparring cities and fossil fuel companies have been called to brief
U.S. District Judge William Alsup this Wednesday on the basics of
climate change.
Semantic analysis of
U.S. Federal budget documents indicates that the
climate science research budget is heavily biased in favor of the paradigm of human - induced
climate change.
State action has been crucial to continuing emissions reductions and engagement in the
climate process, but there is no substitute for
federal U.S. leadership on
climate.
Just when leaders in the
U.S. Senate admitted to abandoning their plan of issuing a
federal climate bill by the end of this year, top Chinese officials were discussing how to launch carbon trading programs under their country's next Five - Year Plan (2011 - 15).
The
U.S. government should move toward a coordinated national
climate change adaptation strategy, says a
federal interagency task force in a recent report to the President.
In fiscal 2014, the
U.S. Global Change Research Program — a joint effort of 10
federal agencies — spent almost $ 2.5 billion on
climate change and other earth systems scientific research.
Teenagers across the
U.S. filed legal action in 49 states and with the
federal government last year to compel action on
climate change.
While the majority of Americans want stronger
U.S. action on
climate change, policies at the state and
federal level continue to underwrite the ongoing exploration and production of fossil fuels.
Heartland Institute Press Release The New York Times this week posted a draft of a
climate science report by the
federal government's
U.S. Global Change Research Program.
While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys,
federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight
climate change, according to
U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.
Under the
U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990, the
federal government has been charged with producing large National
Climate Assessments (NCA), and today the most recent iteration has arrived.