Sentences with phrase «cap on carbon dioxide»

, who was rolling out his own energy bill, a measure that relies heavily on expanding nuclear power and raising fuel economy standards without putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

James Murdoch, the young scion of the giant News Corporation media empire, has an op - ed article for The Washington Post aimed at «conservation - minded conservatives,» spelling out the many reasons to propel an energy transformation in the United States through a declining cap on carbon dioxide emissions, despite the uncertainties in climate science.

The China News Service, a state - run news agency, also reported on the comments made by Professor He at the Tsinghua - Harvard forum but made no mention of proposals for a quantitative cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on fossil - fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a requirement that CO2 be sequestered.

The governor highlighted the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as one of the ways his administration will act, pushing for a more aggressive cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Before Cuomo took office, New York joined eight other northeastern states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont) to set a cap on carbon dioxide emissions within the region.

Some conservatives and critics of efforts to set binding caps on carbon dioxide criticized him for not going far enough in pointing out how costly such efforts would be.

As for caps on carbon dioxide, both Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain support having a cap on emissions and a trading system for permits to pollute under the descending ceiling.

The Independent Online reports that an unprecedented coalition of blue - chip US companies and environmental lobby groups will urge President Bush next week to get serious about global warming, calling for caps on carbon dioxide emissions that would cut greenhouse gases by 10 - 30 per cent over 15 years.

This publication from the London School of Economics suggested that oblique ways of approaching problems of development and the environment would succeed where taxes and caps on carbon dioxide failed.

Not exact matches

Under cap and trade, the government sets a maximum cap on the units of carbon dioxide that can be released into the atmosphere while providing permits to companies.

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

The Party has also removed the cap on wind power to encourage the development of more non-renewable wind energy; initiated studies on the feasibility of carbon capture and storage as a means of disposing carbon dioxide emissions; and provided grants to promote the bio-energy industry.

Last September California became the first US state to impose a cap on the emission of carbon dioxide and other gases and has since called for other states to follow suit.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

Over its 10 - year life span, the spacecraft observed the Martian surface and atmosphere repeatedly, exposing details — like the shrinking carbon dioxide ice cap on the south pole — that would have been lost to onetime measurements.

They argue that there is something wrong with a world in which carbon - dioxide levels are kept to 450 parts per million (a trajectory widely deemed compatible with a 2 degree cap on warming) but at the same time more than a billion of the poorest people are left without electricity, as in one much discussed scenario from the International Energy Agency.

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

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Almost no liquid water is present on Mars, although the polar caps contain frozen water and carbon dioxide (dry ice).

The trajectories for emissions of carbon dioxide as the world's industrial and industrializing countries boost coal burning are clearly going to be tough to turn around, whether through caps on emissions or efforts to improve non-polluting energy technologies.

The potential political costs of capping carbon dioxide from coal burning were on full display in the final hours of the presidential campaign.

The ideal scenario for Europe would be for the United States quickly to establish a system to cap and trade carbon dioxide, and then pledge to put pressure on other rich countries to do the same thing.

The comment, made during a Jan. 17 interview with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle, essentially explains how the kind of cap and trade mechanism sought by both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain (the latter at least in his platform, if not on the stump) would make coal combustion ever more costly (unless the world finally gets serious about investing in large - scale testing and deployment of systems for capturing and burying carbon dioxide).

He cites studies concluding that various provisions would allow expanded coal use in coming decades despite an overall cap on emissions of carbon dioxide.

The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.

The new research suggests instead that this shift is due to a change in the oscillation frequency of atmospheric carbon dioxide abundances, a hypothesis that can be directly tested by deep drilling on the Antarctic Ice Cap.

On the policy side, Mr. Gore remains in the all - of - the - above camp, seeking both a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and endorsing, somewhat guardedly, the «cap and trade» architecture favored by congressional Democrats and many large environmental groupOn the policy side, Mr. Gore remains in the all - of - the - above camp, seeking both a tax on carbon dioxide emissions and endorsing, somewhat guardedly, the «cap and trade» architecture favored by congressional Democrats and many large environmental groupon carbon dioxide emissions and endorsing, somewhat guardedly, the «cap and trade» architecture favored by congressional Democrats and many large environmental groups.

There's some sobering news on two fronts that many climate campaigners, and politicians, have put at the forefront of their climate agendas: passing legislation capping carbon dioxide emissions and demonstrating technology for capturing and burying the main human - generated greenhouse gas.

When global warming enters the realm of politics, the conversation usually focuses on a few «solutions» — a bill capping carbon dioxide, «clean coal,» a climate treaty (you've read a lot here on «clean coal»; a lot more on treaties is coming shortly).

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

Re # 8: I also wonder about the effect of Arctic ice cap reduction on uptake of carbon dioxide.

The first is a cap - and - trade system, which would place progressively stricter limits on fossil fuel use; require power plants, industries, and other major sources of greenhouse gases, to purchase permits to discharge carbon dioxide; and establish a market in those permits.

In Northeast Land and Svalbard, the melting waters on the ice caps are the tears of the Earth mourning the future death of men and civilizations as the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spikes and global warming proceeds rapidly, killing millions of marine organisms, and increasing the acidification of the oceans.

(through drastic slashing of manufacturing technologies, draconian cap and trade taxation, repossession of private property, and a whole host of other proceedures of questionable value), and on the other, you have the alternative medicine quack that says «The pain is all in your mind» (EG, the non-scientists that say that human released carbon dioxide has no impact on the environment whatsoever, in spite of the fact that this is not supported by even the slightest bit of chemical evidence.)

This trend was reinforced by the reciprocal climate deal that China struck with the Obama administration in November, under which China agreed to peak its carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and put a cap on coal burning by 2020.

The study at issue is a 2011 report in which Nisbet analyzed claims by some environmentalists that they lost the political battle over creating a federal cap - and - trade tax on carbon dioxide emissions because environmentalists were outgunned; that is, because industry associations and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce marshalled resources far beyond those of cap - and - trade's supporters.

Then - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was pushing for a carbon cap - and - trade program; still, the law's language allowed the ARB to consider a variety of methods for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, including a tax or fee on carbon dioxide.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

A carbon tax, by contrast, does not set a cap on emissions, but rather sets a price to penalize carbon dioxide emissions.

If the EPA acts unilaterally to restrict carbon dioxide emissions, the impact on the economy could be even worse than a cap and trade law enacted by Congress.

At this moment, our national economy is under threat by carbon regulation schemes on three fronts: The Copenhagen conference designed to create a world carbon regulatory authority which could undermine our sovereignty; The cap and trade bill thatâ $ ™ s been passed by the House of Representatives and now awaits Senate approval; and the Obama Administrationâ $ ™ s decision that it can regulate carbon dioxide via the EPA even without approval by Congress.

That includes work on its existing cap - and - trade limits on carbon dioxide.

The publicâ $ ™ s waning interest in global warming poses a challenge for Mr. Obama, who emphasized climate change throughout his campaign and pledged to seek a cap on emissions in the United States of heat - trapping gases, led by carbon dioxide, which come mainly from burning coal and oil.

Pollution permits to be «capped» at 90 percent of aviation carbon dioxide emissions [based on the average of 2004 - 6 emissions](NGOs wanted a 50 percent cap).

State Representatives Barry, Moore, and Notter introduced a bill on January 7, 2015 that would end the state's participation in the cap - and - trade program, which requires power plants in nine participating states to purchase an «allowance» for each ton of carbon dioxide emitted.

Based upon it's conclusions, governments have implemented expensive carbon taxes and new overbearing regulations designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, cap and trade schemes, a phased - in ban on incandescent light bulbs, the forced relocation of whole populations of people to make room for carbon credit producing plantations and numerous other far reaching and expensive initiatives.

Mr. Inhofe reminded the delegates that the last time the group assembled in Washington, the House had just passed a sweeping cap - and - trade bill to address global warming by putting limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate - altering gases.