Sentences with phrase «big polluters on»

The climate deniers and big polluters on the others side, not so much.

Why do nt Americans, the biggest polluters on the planet, wake up to climate change?

Not exact matches

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberals to use the Pacific Carbon Trust to reduce the carbon footprint of our schools and hospitals instead of giving handouts to big polluters like Encana.»

VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix is calling on the Liberals to immediately fix the Pacific Carbon Trust and end the Liberal practice of taking money from schools and hospitals and using it to subsidize big polluters like Encana.

Yet, putting CO2 capture on coal - fired power plants and other big industrial polluters seems less a question of whether and more a question of when.

He called on viewers to support leaders «who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for humanity.»

Hansen commutes 60 miles to work every day and prefers to ride around in jets, all the while NASA is one of the biggest polluters of the environment on the planet (the environment doesn't just stop at the part of the atmosphere you can breathe).

To get to the trajectory altogether, which would imply peaking of global energy emissions well before 2020 other big polluters will have to deliver on their emission cuts, too.

Take that away, and the Clean Power Plan is unexceptional, just the latest of a long line of clean air standards to curb the public health and environmental toll that the power industry — the nation's biggest polluter — exacts on the American people.

As time passed, it became clear that the oil slump was more than just a temporary downturn — it was also an eye - opener for those who had relied on Big Polluters for so long.

Big polluters will now be required to track and report emissions, and fossil fuel subsidies are on their way out.

• Lifting the targets to 25 - 40 % by 2020 based on the latest scientific evidence • • Abolishing the free permits granted to the biggest polluters • • Ensuring that individual action results in lower emissions, not lower carbon prices • Unless these major flaws in the CPRS can be fixed the government should introduce a carbon tax as a matter of urgency.

And while the affluent are the biggest polluters, developing island countries — some of which rely on tourism to shore up their economies — are paying the higher price when it comes to climate change.

In the 45 or so minutes of ensuing conversation — punctuated by a couple of screaming matches in Mandarin between members of the Chinese delegation that were not translated — the world's biggest carbon polluters, for the first time in history, agreed on a common goal.

We were reminded that the deal resulted in many benefits not directly related to climate change (like mercury controls on the plants) and that the state achieved certainty that one of the biggest polluters in the west will eventually shut down.

Five prominent non-profits have launched the «Polluter Fraud Hotline» (1-866-363-4648), inviting average citizens or industry insiders to blow the whistle on any deceptive or illegal tactics that big polluters and their lobbyists are using in opposition to clean energy legislation.

In a formal statement, the Canadian government said it «applauds» the move by Australia this week to repeal a carbon tax on the country's 300 biggest polluters.

WHY on earth would Trump sign up to an economy and job - destroying Paris «deal», when the two biggest «polluters» on the planet — China and India — get a free pass to burn unlimited emissions until 2030?!

«Once again ignoring the severe climate crisis facing our nation, this administration is turning its back on reality and science, in favor of its polluter buddies,» said Seth Johnson, Earthjustice attorney who is co-counsel for the Sierra Club, «These standards are making big cuts in the carbon pollution that drives climate change, and a detailed technical review confirmed they're workable.

It's really quite simple: You can't throw your garbage on the street for free, so big polluters shouldn't be allowed to spew harmful emissions into our atmosphere for free.

«If Donald Trump thinks he can launch a big polluter assault on our air, waters, wildlife and lands,» said Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement, «we'll build a wall of opposition to stop him.»

But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.

Instead they are wasting taxpayer money and protecting their big polluter allies by trying again to block the enormous health and safety protections that will be delivered by the Clean Power Plan, and keep our country from acting on climate change.

The reason: Special interest groups, with funding and support from Big Polluters, have spent decades on well - coordinated campaigns to spread doubt in the media and sway public opinion about the reality of the crisis.

China is the world's top polluter but also its biggest investor in renewable energy and it has pledged to reduce its reliance on carbon - belching coal and clear the toxic smog from its cities

Driven by frustration over the laggard climate change policies of North American federal governments, the WCI led by California envisioned a «cap and trade» system setting strict limits on the emissions of the biggest polluters.

If big polluters don't pay their fair share for the price for pollution, the heavy burden will continue to fall on low - income families, communities of color, our children, wildlife and future generations.

And instead of giving the bill a fair shake on the floor, big polluters and some in the Senate are waiting in the wings to hijack the bill with a cadre of toxic amendments.

When it comes to climate change, Garland has «consistently come out on the side of the environment and against big polluters,» as Tim McDonnell writes for Mother Jones.

And while we're going to need other policies which actually put limits on pollution from our big polluters.»

Reuters: Could a peace and reconciliation process between big climate polluters and their victims be one way to move forward action on climate change?

For more on why the Interior Department's budget is a massive giveaway to big polluters and a direct attack on renewables, see our recent blog: «Interior budget boosts fossil fuels, cuts renewable funding.»

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

From food (the average American eats 260 pounds of meat a year) to energy (we are still the biggest carbon polluter on the planet).

Reuters: China and the United States agreed on Wednesday to new limits on carbon emissions starting in 2025, but the pledge by the world's two biggest polluters...

Instead of taking the fight to big polluters, President Obama has put global warming on the back burner

2007/04/20: NineMSN: Carbon trading «futile» without China Human activity is contributing to climate change but programs like emissions trading are futile unless big polluters such as China and the US are on board, Treasurer Peter Costello says.

The United States is the world's second biggest greenhouse gas polluter behind China, but its global warming pollution on a per capita basis is nearly five times higher than China's.

Is it any wonder that organisations like the Australian Liberal Party, who rely heavily on donations from big business, do the bidding of the miners and polluters?

According to agency officials, industry representatives, and some environmentalists, the new rules will have a limited effect on industrial power plants, which are by far the biggest polluters.

«Champagne corks are popping in the board rooms of big corporate polluters as they celebrate this ill - disguised fossil fuel industry wish - list of an executive order, which will wreak havoc on efforts to tackle climate change and protect our communities.

Denis Bevington, MP for the Western Arctic who was also present last night, has written in the past about the potential for a cap - and - trade system to, «crack down on big industrial polluters,» and «generate billions annually.»