Sentences with phrase «about federal climate»

When asked why I changed my mind about federal climate policy, this is a large part of my answer.

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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.»

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.

David was also the producer of «An Inconvenient Truth,» and just as that film served as a wake - up call for climate change, «Fed Up» hopes to similarly educate the public about the serious flaws in our food system and how the food and beverage industries have a vested interest in maintaining a status quo that puts profits over our collective health — and often with the assistance of the federal government.

But green groups haven't hesitated to take aim at Trump online, with the Natural Resources Defense Council criticizing his recent move to rescind climate standards for federal infrastructure and the League of Conservation Voters praising Miami's Republican mayor, Tomás Regalado, for saying it is time to talk about climate change.

Governor Schwarzenegger was also clear what he thought about Washington on the issue of climate change, telling reporters: «California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming.

AAAS leads intersociety letter expressing «grave concern» about congressional inquiry that unfoundedly called into question federal climate scientists» integrity [November 24, 2015]

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.

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The administration and congressional Republicans have already spoken about removing or replacing climate research at other federal agencies, as well.

Given the Trump administration's questioning of climate science, the nuclear industry is hoping states will follow through with financial support while fending off a surge of cheap gas and questions from the right about whether at - risk reactors should receive federal support.

«We also hope that the Administration will regard Earth Hour as a way to inform and engage the public on climate change, just as the federal government has traditionally used Earth Day to educate the public about general environmental issues.»

Still, he said, about 80 percent of past Republicans running for federal office were silent on climate change.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

He comes to the table with strong feelings about keeping federal lands in the hands of the government, a belief that «something is going on» with the climate and an embrace of an «all of the above» energy policy.

The Climate Central analysis of San Joaquin Valley air data showed that while the number of days each year on which levels of PM2.5 exceeded federal standards declined by about 45 percent overall from 2000 to 2016, they increased by almost a third during the peak summer fire season.

I find it troubling that Wojick, a federal employee (DOE), is being paid to develop materials designed misinform and confuse school children about human - caused climate change.

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.

His rich descriptions and lively anecdotes provide pointed lessons about the partisan climate that stymies much federal policy making today.

Again via Twitter, I learned about a 2011 White House report, «Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation,» from Erik Schlenker - Goodrich, the executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center.

They do not meet the standard of timing, but that is because the pace of temperature change depends on development, growth, and policy decisions about climate and other things that can not be predicted (but that does not stop the Federal Reserve from setting monetary policy).

First, we talked about revived interest in mass transportation, about the different roles and responsibilities of local communities and the federal government, and about what opportunities and hurdles face the next president, even as both candidates have pledged to cap carbon dioxide and pursue an effective climate treaty.

The particular anecdotes I have heard about political influence on the federal grant making process go in the other direction, where people are told that they should not pubish findings supporting large climate sensitvity, at least until after some election.

I removed as a federal employee in July of 2005 for objecting to not be able to study or talk about climate and hydrologic change while at the office.

«The particular anecdotes I have heard about political influence on the federal grant making process go in the other direction, where people are told that they should pubish findings supporting large climate sensitvity, at least until after some election.»

These reports should guide federal agencies in supporting research on climate - intervention technologies, while keeping separate any decision - making about their implementation.»

It comes at a time when President Donald Trump and other members of the administration have expressed doubt about the accepted science of climate change, and are considering drastic cuts to federal funding for scientific research.

This move is especially important as a new administration hostile to the scientific consensus about climate change — and eager to open federal lands and waters to more drilling — prepares to take power.

For the IPCC both the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) and the LIA (Little Ice Age) existed before the «hockey stick,» so viewing the situation objectively — after the IPCC participated in the rewriting of history by showcasing the «hockey stick as a part of the Left's efforts to manufacture a supposed consensus about climate change — the IPCC condoned a fraud that federal climatists to this very day persist in perpetrating on the public.

In recent years, concerns about the effects those emissions might have on the climate have prompted the Congress, federal regulators, and others to consider policies to reduce them.

Two representatives assert that ExxonMobil lied about climate change data in the same way cigarette companies hid the real hazards associated with smoking, and they are now threatening a federal investigation.

In one 2015 tweet, Oreskes posted a link to a Salon story about then - presidential candidate Bernie Sanders calling for a federal probe into alleged climate science malfeasance.

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.

We want every single state and federal MP to receive a visit from at least one local resident and hear about the call for a Climate Emergency Declaration.

However, in many other instances, federal agencies have tampered with information about climate change.

Federal Climate Emergency Declaration petition including actions data People who sign this petition can also answer a few quick questions about how they reduce their carbon emissions.

Automakers are telling consumers that they care about climate change but are spreading climate denial behind the scenes to influence federal policy.

Wide swaths of informational content about climate change science and impacts are being systematically scrubbed from federal agency websites, particularly at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- see the November 22 New York Times op - ed piece «Censoring Climate Change&climate change science and impacts are being systematically scrubbed from federal agency websites, particularly at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- see the November 22 New York Times op - ed piece «Censoring Climate Change&Climate Change».

After a decade of grass - roots rural community angst from being ridden over roughshod by multi-national energy companies aided by state and federal governments eager to be seen to be «doing something» about climate change, while ignoring the basic human right to enjoy rest and repose in their own home, the issue of health impacts will now get the hearing it deserves.

In April 2011, not long after Julia Gillard was returned to power in the 2010 federal election, I asked a representative sample of Australians about their attitudes to climate policy.

Ambiguous scientific statements about climate are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm... Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $ 1.7 billion today.

U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier sought the probe last year to determine whether the oil giant violated federal laws by «failing to disclose truthful information» about climate change.

In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch last year, 20 climate scientists urged her to use federal racketeering laws to prosecute corporations and think tanks that have «deceived the American people about the risks of climate change.»

By the 1970s, the persistent cooling trend had become a hot topic, so to speak, for magazines and books that fretted about a coming Ice Age, and the federal government supported studies that calculated the economic disasters expected from a colder climate.

Until recently, the federal government used an estimate of the social cost of carbon dioxide — one way to calculate the damage caused by climate change — of about US$ 40 / ton.

The Administration has acted in a variety of ways to impede and manipulate communication about climate change by federal scientists and career science program leaders to wider audiences, including Congress and the media.

Even taking into account the possibility some areas added tree cover, the discrepancy between state and federal numbers should intensify concerns about the reliability of the national data, Glenn Walker, a climate change campaigner with The Wilderness Society, said.

Local government as a way of getting climate emergency action through Photos by Julian Meehan, audio recordings by The Sustainable Hour Philip Sutton Trent McCarthy Mik Aidt Bryony Edwards Adrian Whitehead How councils can reverse global warming With State and Federal Governments failing to implement policies to reestablish a safe climate, this workshop at Read more about Exploring the critical role local councils can play in reversing global warming -LSB-...]

To the extent that they think about it, most people imagine that when the Federal Government makes decisions on something as vital as the future of Australia's and the world's climate system, it will first seek advice from a range of sources including experts and public servants.