Sentences with phrase «approved emission caps»

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A strong energy package approved last year by a key Senate panel is seen as a sweetener for passing a much more controversial cap - and - trade system to regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases.

Most recently, California approved a measure to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels within 15 years, and Washington State placed a cap on emissions from specific industries.

In 2006, after being bombarded with «man - made global warming» hysteria, our state legislators approved the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (i.e., AB32) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sources throughout the state and work via a «cap and trade» system.

The Western Climate Initiative got a critical boost in October when California approved its final cap and trade regulations which will enable the trade of emission credits by 2013.

President Obama's Climate Action Plan (CAP) directs the EPA to use its authority through its Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program to encourage private sector investment in low - emissions technology by identifying and approving climate - friendly chemicals while prohibiting certain uses of the most harmful chemical alternatives.

But even with a domestic cap approved in the House, Senate leadership promising to follow suit, and the president promising to sign it, U.S. negotiators were unable to secure emissions reduction commitments from China, India, or other developing countries.

The American Carbon Registry, a leading voluntary and California compliance Cap - and - Trade Offset Project Registry, in 2012 approved a methodology developed by Tierra Resources, which quantifies the greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon sequestration associated with restoring degraded deltaic wetlands in the Mississippi Delta.

The oilsands are Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, but Trudeau has said that his decisions to approve the Trans Mountain project was part of a «trade off» to persuade Alberta to put a cap on the pollution from the oilsands and participate in a national climate change strategy.