Sentences with phrase «biggest climate change initiative»

With the world watching, China's president Hu Jintao offered his country's biggest climate change initiative yet at the UN this morning, saying China would establish emissions intensity targets — not absolute targets, but cuts in emissions per unit of

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And last fall, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration plans to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, the Obama administration's biggest initiative to fight climate change by curbing emissions.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

Opponents of Proposition 23, the ballot initiative that would suspend California's climate change and clean energy law, have raised $ 11.9 million in the past two weeks; big - dollar contributors include the film director James Cameron, Microsoft's Bill Gates and the Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

This chapter, features kids who have taken big initiatives to raise awareness on climate change and make a difference in their own personal actions as well.

I - 732 is a citizen ballot initiative to fight climate change; to make polluters pay when they damage our air, water and health; and to give that money back to the people in the biggest anti-poverty measure in this state since groceries were made sales tax exempt in 1977.