Sentences with phrase «battle over climate change»

One of the world's largest oil producers is about to enter a tit - for - tat battle over climate change with government officials from multiple states.

We're largely in agreement (except really when has the battle over climate change ever not been firmly dominated by the same hands that dominate it now?)

Australian Professor of Ethics Clive Hamilton recognized this some time ago when he issued a call for environmental radicalism and noted that the future battle over climate change will not be a place for the faint - hearted.

As time passes, more information on the strange bedfellow flow of massive funding to the environmental movement in the legislative and policy battle over climate change continues to emerge.

The long - planned pipeline has become a symbol both of Canada's efforts to get land - locked bitumen to international markets and a flashpoint in the battle over climate change.

California's government agency responsible for maintaining healthy air quality voted on Friday to adopt stricter emissions standards for automobiles, essentially daring President Donald Trump to confront the state in a legal battle over climate change.

Not exact matches

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

What the election of so many climate zombies illustrates is that for many conservative politicians, and especially, according to polls, the Tea Party, climate change is an issue that is beneath contempt: It's such a transparent hoax by the bugaboo du jour that it's not even worth discussing outside of its bearing on the ideological battle over the extent to which the U.S. government should involve itself in the lives of its citizens.

The one thing everyone knows about Texas is the Battle of the Alamo, but most of Texas history occurred before the Alamo, before the Anglo colonists arrived; it was the history of the native peoples who lived there over the course of 14,000 years, some of whom left huge, magnificent cosmological murals in rock shelters along the Pecos River before they moved on as the climate changed and water disappeared.

California headed for a high - stakes battle over global warming Tuesday, as an oil industry - backed measure to suspend the state's aggressive climate - change law qualified for the November ballot.

The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

As leaders of the industrialized world continue to squabble at home over how to address the threat of climate change — and even as they battle internal factions who don't believe the science of climate change — one group of leaders has come out in favor of swift, comprehensive action to prevent global catastrophe.

In an interview in La Jolla, Dr. Keeling's widow, Louise, said that if her husband had lived to see the hardening of the political battle lines over climate change, he would have been dismayed.

A years - long battle over whether Idaho would require its science teachers to teach about global warming was resolved Thursday when the State Senate education committee voted to adopt standards that included sections on human - caused climate change.

Landlocked areas may also be affected; some experts call the Darfur region of Sudan, where nomads battle villagers in a war over shrinking natural resources, the first significant conflict linked to climate change.

TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline has become a litmus test in the U.S. battle over energy policy, as the environmental movement looks for reassurance that President Barack Obama is committed to combatting climate change.

Inslee is optimistic and eager, having left his longstanding position as a US Congressman to do more good (he hopes) and battle climate change (rather than arguing with Republicans over its existence).

PARIS, 11 December, 2015 — Offers of help to the developing countries to battle climate change have been falling out of the sky over Paris in recent days.

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The lawsuit, headed by California and its coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia, represents an important step in California's ongoing battle with the Trump administration over climate change regulations — the challenge marks California's 10th lawsuit against the EPA and its 32nd since Trump took office.

That plan came to light during a hearing in Exxon's battle with Schneiderman over his office's investigation into whether the company violated consumer fraud laws in connection with climate change - related disclosures.

Will there be a battle over Paris Climate Change pact next week?

In which we battle over carbon targets, green tokenism and the economics of climate change.

The coming battle between the Trump team and economists over the true cost of climate change (Washington Post, Dec. 22, 2016)

With the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference behind us, it seems like every front page is still devoting most of its real estate to environmental concerns: battles in the U.S. Senate over the Waxman - Markey bill; CO2 reduction targets for various countries; emissions restrictions on the automotive industry.

I have never read a more truthful and accurate piece of prose than the opinion piece by Jamie MacMaster published in the February 2010 edition of REM (Ontario hasn't heard the news — The climate change battle is over).