Sentences with phrase «u.s. federal climate policy»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).»

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.

That While the U.S. was taking a gigantic step backwards with federal climate policy with the election of Donald Trump as President, Trudeau's announcement showed Canada had taken a big step forward on climate action.

Both voluntary activities and a variety of policies and measures that lower emissions are currently in place at federal, state, and local levels in the U.S., even though there is no comprehensive national climate legislation.

But the defeat of federal climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate climate policy.

Much has happened with U.S. federal energy and climate policy since our June Grapevine.

Such bottom ‑ up linkage of state and regional cap ‑ and ‑ trade systems could be an important part or perhaps even the core of future of U.S. climate policy, at least until there is meaningful action at the Federal level.

In his Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance on October 5, 2009, President Obama said that the task force was by that time «already engaged in developing the domestic and international dimensions of a U.S. strategy for adaptation to climate change» and should «develop approaches through which the policies and practices of the agencies can be made compatible with and reinforce that strategy.»

Even without rigorous federal policy, U.S. cities can take meaningful steps to protect the climate.

Surfrider calls upon all elected officials in the U.S. to hold the Administration accountable for taking meaningful action on climate - both through federal policies and displaying international leadership.

Obama also named his appointment of Lisa Jackson as the chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nancy Sutley as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Carol Browner as head of a newly - created White House position to coordinate energy, environment and climate change policies across federal agencies.