Sentences with phrase «against curbing emissions»

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EPA's defenders argue the plan is sound, and a full - court press is simply to be expected against rules that would curb the source of one - third of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions.

Since the last relatively substantive meeting on a new climate treaty, in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007, there has been a steady stream of statements about the urgent need to «seal the deal» next month in Copenhagen, providing a firm new treaty curbing emissions from rich countries and emerging powers and buttressing poor ones against climatic and coastal hazards.

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

It would effectively block any federal safeguards against power plant air pollution, including those aimed at curbing acid rain, toxic emissions, or interstate smog violations.

In the polarised world of climate change, this cocktail has proved an irresistible temptation to organisations which campaign against President Bush's administration in support of enhanced action to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

People who are willing to use threats, violence or criminal behaviour against policy makers and / or climate scientists who promote action to curb CO2 emissions.

Environmentalists have long maintained that industry knew early on that the scientific evidence supported a human influence on rising temperatures, but that the evidence was ignored for the sake of companies» fight against curbs on greenhouse gas emissions.

These groups gladly accept Exxon's support, which enables them to keep churning out misleading reports, to flood newspaper op - ed pages with bizarre arguments against action to curb rampant carbon emissions, and to appear on right - wing TV and radio where they're invited by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck to tick off blatant distortions of climate science without challenge by actual climate experts.

called for an «armed and dangerous» revolution against measures to curb greenhouse - gas emissions and move away from fossil fuels.

The list was prepared in response to the industry - led onslaught against the EPA's proposed new public health protections: The EPA is moving to curb the amount of mercury and toxic emissions power plants can let fly into the air we breathe, and big business is throwing a fit.

This information lets us compare the credibility of those arguing against curbs on greenhouse emissions versus those supporting them.