Sentences with phrase «attack on carbon emissions»

With a multi-pronged attack on carbon emissions and related pollution, cap - and - trade may be only one component, or the price may even collapse if they don't establish the right cap or a floor on prices.

As long as the EPA properly follows its existing and well - tested regulatory rule - making processes and procedures; and as long as the anti-carbon regulations are themselves fair and impartial in their application, then this two - prong regulatory attack on carbon emissions can be made bulletproof against the threat of lawsuits.

Not exact matches

The Tories have attacked the Liberals» carbon tax policy and have argued it will raise prices on almost everything — from gasoline and groceries — without actually cutting emissions.

On the same day as the attacks, a paper by James E. Hansen and other climate experts was released arguing that carbon emissions are transforming our world far more quickly than expected, in ways that may inundate coastal cities and cause storms more horrendous than any in modern history.

Outgoing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, meanwhile, continued his attacks on Abbott for allegedly failing to live up to «international commitments» on reducing carbon emissions.

He instead focused on his attacks on the Clean Power Plan, which set the first - ever national limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that contribute to climate change.

Stern blames the «deniers / delayers» for society's climate inaction, writing that «climate deniers, vested interests, and ideologues have attacked both the scientific evidence on climate change and politicians» attempts to regulate emissions and build strong carbon prices.»

The current political cycle is dominated by shrill attacks on anyone who questions whether man - made emissions of carbon dioxide are driving global warming.

When US President Obama announced revised regulations on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from US power plants on August 3, 2015 in a laudable speech supporting the new rules, as he predicted opponents of US climate change policy strongly attacked the new rules on grounds that they would wreck the US economy, destroy jobs, and raise electricity prices.

«Modernizing the US electrical grid is essential to reducing carbon emissions, creating safeguards against attacks on our infrastructure, and keeping the lights on,» said Secretary Moniz.

This matters because the climate change debate has been hi - jacked, emissions made worse by the net effects of renewables for a fast lobbyist buck in fact, driven by ignorance and misleading attacks that lump clean low carbon gas with dirty high carbon coal, and old school anti-nuclear activists who oppose nuclear generation on factualy spurious grounds, while it is in physics and engineering fact by far the best solution on any measure, through promoting irrational fear unsupported in any area of the facts and proven physics they deceive the unknowing about with simply false or msleading «sience».