Sentences with phrase «by emissions legislation»

Our business is driven by emissions legislation for both the automotive and non-automotive gasoline and diesel engine markets.

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The different governments lead by Mrs. Thatcher restrain the emission of the monetary mass, raise the rate of interest, reduce in a drastic way the taxes on the highest incomes, abolish the control of the financial flows, strongly raise the rate of unemployment, provoke strikes, put in place an anti-unions legislation and cut the social expenses.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

Notables whiffs: Failure to ban triclosan from personal care products and to pass pioneering climate change legislation that would have eliminated greenhouse gas emissions across the state by 2050.

Since, as the editorial points out, federal laws such as the Clean Air Act are not subject to the whim of this or any future president, carbon emissions also need to be addressed by federal legislation.

• City Council legislation, Intro 378, by Council Member Costa Constantinides (District 22, Queens), which mandates the City to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050.

The United States will cut emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, a target the White House declared can be met «under existing law» — that is, without the need for Congress to pass legislation.

The Senate version of legislation that would cut greenhouse gas emissions 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020 will be released on Monday, said its sponsors, senators John Kerry, (D - MA), Lindsey Graham, (R - SC), and Joe Lieberman, (ID - CT).

And California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has overseen legislation that will require the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020.

The legislation called for the country to curb emissions 30 percent below business - as - usual growth by 2030 and 50 percent by midcentury, but those targets were conditional upon international assistance.

The report, which also warns of major wildlife extinctions and risks to crops from extreme heat, calls for reducing emissions 80 percent from current levels by 2050, which is consistent with the targets in major climate legislation moving through Congress.

Price carbon emissions through cap - and - trade legislation or by imposing a carbon tax?

... There is a clear need to reach consensus on how to carry out LCAs on biofuels, driven by national and international legislation which include GHG emission reduction goals.

A higher output, smaller displacement turbo - four will also better prepare Jaguar (which currently uses mostly supercharged V - 6 and V - 8 engines) for the low - emissions European Union legislation on the horizon in 2020, and potentially find a home in the soon - to - arrive Jaguar XS, which will face off against the BMW 3 - Series when it hits the market by 2016.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

That's the optimistic opinion put forth by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — she issued that statement as Congress set about the «mother of all climate weeks» to debate revolutionary climate and energy legislation that could potentially land the US a cap and trade system to cut nationwide carbon emissions.

In all of the fevered recent discussions over next steps for climate legislation, I haven't heard anyone put forward a template for a bill that would lock in a carbon pricing path coming anywhere close to $ 60 to $ 95 a ton on a timescale that would make the technology globally competitive in time to blunt the burst of emissions coming by 2030 in China and India.

The avoidance of the C word in the bill's title, «Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act,» seems at odds with the urgent arguments put forward by backers of the legislation that emissions are climbing and climate is changing more drastically than previously predicted.

They fear the focus on passing legislation or trying to negotiate a new climate treaty to cut emissions is distracting from the need to pursue an aggressive, sustained, variegated portfolio of energy research, mainly financed by government.

Price carbon emissions through cap - and - trade legislation or by imposing a carbon tax?

He alluded to last year's successful passage of a climate and energy bill in the House, but made no mention of the current proposal by his Democratic allies in the Senate for legislation including a cap and trading mechanism for emissions.

In light of the president's goal to reduce emissions 83 percent by 2050, the expected pathway set forth in this pending legislation would entail a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels in 2025 and a 42 percent reduction below 2005 in 2030.

After the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed their right to do so, in AEP v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court reversed on the grounds that such claims were «displaced by the federal legislation authorizing EPA to regulate carbon - dioxide emissions.»

The legislation benefits were estimated by multiplying the estimated amount of greenhouse gas emissions avoided by the monetary valuation of incremental damage from each ton of greenhouse gas emissions (the «social cost of carbon»).

In a new filing to the IRS — adding to an active investigation prompted by a 2012 complaint that ALEC is operating as a corporate lobbying group while registered as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charity — the watchdog organizations detail for the first time how Exxon has used ALEC as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions.

So overturning the steps Obama's administration has taken to curb the US's emissions in recent years by passing new legislation isn't on the table.

Key Issues for Discussion and Comment in the ANPR: Descriptions of key provisions and programs in the CAA, and advantages and disadvantages of regulating GHGs under those provisions; How a decision to regulate GHG emissions under one section of the CAA could or would lead to regulation of GHG emissions under other sections of the Act, including sections establishing permitting requirements for major stationary sources of air pollutants; Issues relevant for Congress to consider for possible future climate legislation and the potential for overlap between future legislation and regulation under the existing CAA; and, scientific information relevant to, and the issues raised by, an endangerment analysis.

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

WASHINGTON — A draft of a climate bill that Senate Democrats will formally introduce on Wednesday suggests that the legislation will include a more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions target than one passed by the House.

It is not clear from the letter whether these senators will refuse to support any legislation that does not require sanctions of any government that refuses to reduce its GHG emissions to levels agreed to by the US or only those governments that are already exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions.

Legislation to cap carbon emissions, though supported by the administration, is struggling to get through Congress.

Since the introduction of the EU emissions legislation, all emission limits have been reduced by over 90 %.

In a landslide decision, constituents in 11 districts voted over 81 percent in favor of legislation that will achieve an 80 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts by 2020 instead of the state's target of 2050.

The resistance by Lincoln and her Senate colleagues undercuts President Barack Obama's effort to win passage of legislation that would cap carbon dioxide emissions and establish a market for trading pollution allowances, said Peter Molinaro, the head of government affairs for Midland, Michigan - based Dow Chemical Co., which supports the measure.

«Any climate change legislation must prevent the export of jobs and related greenhouse gas emissions to countries that fail to take actions to combat the threat of global warming comparable to those taken by the United States,» they said.

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.

In 1997, The Climate Trust was founded as a nonprofit organization to acquire carbon offsets on behalf of new fossil - fueled power plants regulated by the Oregon Carbon Dioxide Standard, the nation's first legislation to curb emissions of carbon dioxide.

Sept. 2016: Ambitious climate legislation passed in the summer by the California legislature (SB 32) is signed into law, setting 2030 emissions reductions objectives at 40 percent below 1990 levels.

by Bonner Cohen The Heartland Institute California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation on September 8 that slaps new, more - stringent restrictions on emissions of manmade greenhouse gases.

Efforts to pass comprehensive cap - and - trade legislation, which would have promoted the deployment of clean energy by making dirty energy more expensive and thus cut U.S. emissions, failed spectacularly.

The new legislation, known as SB 32, aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions in California by as much as 40 percent below levels recorded in 1990 by 2030.

Under new EU legislation adopted today, EU Member States have to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions from land use, land use change or forestry are offset by at least an equivalent removal of CO ₂ from the atmosphere in the period 2021 to 2030.

In particular, they have shown that the atmospheric ozone layer is very sensitive to emission chemicals produced by human activity, and these discoveries have led to international legislation.

Governor Crist's announcement on Wednesday July 11th comes just two weeks after the New Jersey legislature passed legislation that will require the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an equivalent amount.

The United States pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 17 percent by 2020 compared with 2005, contingent on Congress's enacting climate change and energy legislation.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

The Waxman - Markey legislation passed the House of Representatives last summer by a scant few votes, even as it became glaringly obvious to everyone who dared look that it would not require emissions reductions below business - as - usual levels.

As Roberta Kwok wrote in Nature last month, Rudd's Labour party government had called for a 5 % emissions cut from 2000 levels by 2020 — to be raised to 15 % if an ambitious global climate deal is reached in Copenhagen — but the proposed legislation was under fire from both the right and left.

It is also a view that is held by a number of politicians, making them reluctant to introduce regulations or legislation aimed at cutting emissions.