Sentences with phrase «by12 federal climate change»

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

As the nation debates possible structures for federal climate change legislation, many states are already moving forward with carbon - cutting plans of their own.

He was the lead in the development of the USGCRP's new Ten Year Strategic Plan and a key player in the Third National Climate Assessment, the President's Climate Action Plan, and other activities related to the federal climate change enterprise.

We don't have federal climate change legislation in place in the United States, but the Obama administration is pushing for a carbon tax in the new budget.

«In addition to its reliance on existing and primarily recent synthesis reports from the peer reviewed literature, it also underwent a technical review by12 federal climate change experts, internal EPA review, and interagency review.»

(See related story: «Federal Climate Change Report Highlights Risks for Americans.»)

Coalition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt briefed public servants on the dramatic restructure of the federal climate change bureaucracy before the election was called and yesterday confirmed the Coalition was committed to proceeding with the plan.

With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.

As shown in figure 1, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has reported federal climate change funding in three main categories since 1993:»

«The report, commissioned by the federal Climate Change Department, found that the high country straddling Victoria, NSW and the ACT was not sufficiently resilient to cope with climate change on top of land degradation.

Federal climate change research programs coordinated under the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) are being subjected to draconian cuts; many are being downsized or totally defunded, and climate change scientists are now routinely being reassigned to other projects.

This is the topic of a paper which Professor Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University) and I have written, «Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies» (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 16123, June 2010).

Yet when US federal climate change legislation was under consideration between 2009 and 2010, there was almost no public discussion about whether proposed US climate change legislation would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions to levels that represent the US fair share of safe global emissions.

Title XVI: Climate Change - Subtitle A: National Climate Change Technology Deployment -(Sec. 1601) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the President to establish a Committee on Climate Change Technology to: (1) integrate current federal climate reports; and (2) coordinate federal climate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intensity.

TAXPAYERS will fork out $ 90 million a year to keep more than 400 public servants employed within the federal Climate Change Department - despite most now having nothing to do until 2013.

«Communities across the Nation are already experiencing a range of climatic changes,» says the 2011 progress report of the federal Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.

These two complementary investigations arrived at similar conclusions regarding the state of federal climate research: while scientists hold a high regard for the quality of federal climate change research, there is broad interference in communicating scientific results.

The legal team at Our Children's Trust was already developing a federal climate change case seeking to hold the government accountable for their role in promoting fossil fuel development and continue their ongoing global legal campaign to hold governments accountable for precisely that which the Pope has said is causing our undoing.

Without a functional democracy, there can be no federal role in responding to voter demand, not only for a clean energy economy that is less dependent on fossil fuels, but also for clean air, water, large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and a robust federal climate change science program.

Gore implies Cooney's secret mission was to sabotage such efforts as the federal Climate Change Science Program.

Authors of the GAO report refer to federal climate change program as complex and crosscutting.

The federal climate change bill appears to be dead this session, the victim of partisan politics in defiance of good sense.

Washington, D.C. — Today, a broad coalition of business, professional, energy, and environmental organizations released recommendations on the role of energy efficiency in federal climate change legislation.

Second, those same authorities have to assess how effective they are now at not only defining and reporting federal climate change funding but also lining up that funding with agreed - upon priorities.

Our nation's federal Climate Change Science Program «has been plagued by a stagnant budget, poor coordination between participating agencies, and a lack of White House leadership» reported Eli Kintisch in the October 10 Science magazine.

Washington, DC, for example, is at the heart of federal climate change regulation, so lawyers here are most likely to be involved in policy drafting.

Looking for an immediate political win, meanwhile, Trump rapidly signed executive orders that will see a dramatic change in US federal climate change rules by targeting Obama's Clean Power Plan and increasing support for coal and other fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

«Alberta's new climate strategy, combined with a new federal government that is a true climate change partner for the provinces and territories, positions Canada to enter the Paris conference with a united voice.»

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

This federal policy reversal will be discouraging to many, particularly since conventional wisdom suggests that American action on climate change is a necessary predicate to strong action by China and India.

An uproar occurred when the Trump administration put a «gag order» on multiple federal agencies, and started taking down climate change informational pages from those agencies» websites.

He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus&climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus&Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».

The Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) released a new report on Wednesday that details how references to our changing climate and greenhouse gases have been erased from federal webpages since President Donald Trump took office.

Perhaps you also could add in a question to Marco Rubio about climate change, given that it was put in the context of Rubio's position that «federal efforts to fight climate change will cost U.S. jobs and hurt the U.S. economy.»

The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

President Donald Trump's infrastructure agenda, unveiled on August 15, centered on rescinding Obama - era plans to require consideration of flood risk and climate change in any federal spending for infrastructure or housing and the like.

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

«It's unfortunate that the politics of climate change have evolved to the point in this country where really serious games of chicken are being played with major agencies in our federal government,» Nesbitt said.

But there's another tool in the pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change that will cut far more carbon pollution than federal carbon pricing, and you probably haven't heard of it.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

Canada's new federal government, coupled with significant provincial leadership — especially from Alberta, with its big moves on climate change — mean our country is putting its best foot forward.

Looking years out at the election calendar, Trudeau's strategists pushed early for federal - provincial initiatives like Canada Pension Plan reform, a health accord and the framework for fighting climate change.

«We congratulate Canada's new prime minister and federal cabinet ministers, and we applaud the federal government's commitment to take a new approach on climate change and clean energy.

Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

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Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

«Making progress on climate change and clean growth is hard and at times slow work, and we can't ignore the fact that Canada is still digging out from a deficit of previous federal inaction.

At the federal level, the US Department of Energy's much - anticipated study on grid reliability deliberately removed language noting harm from climate change between the draft and final versions.