Sentences with phrase «cap on carbon pollution»

Shortly after he took office, the White House seemed inconvenienced when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made climate change a top priority, moving swiftly to push a cap on carbon pollution through the House.

The State also recently implemented a «cap - and - reduce» program, similar to «cap - and - trade» systems adopted in other states such as California, which put a cap on carbon pollution and required major sources — including the makers of transportation fuels — to reduce those emissions by a set rate annually.

So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market - based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America.»

Meanwhile, Canada dropped from seventh to eighth position in its ranking (France edged us out thanks in part to a proposed cap on carbon pollution).

Not exact matches

Given those prospects, and the Trump administration's likely lack of action, perhaps in the future China will cooperate with the European Union — which also has a cap - and - trade carbon market — to impose carbon tariffs on U.S. goods produced from an economy that has no constraints on such global warming pollution.

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.

An economy - wide cap on carbon emissions that would begin in 2012, with a target of reducing carbon pollution 17 percent by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050.

«The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America...» — Carol Browner, former US Director of Energy and Climate Change, PRNewswire, May 15, 2010

We focus primarily on national policy to cap and reduce carbon pollution, while also supporting precedent - setting state and regional programs.

While it's still unclear exactly how states should credit all efficiency measures in their plans, it is clear that states will have an easier time reducing energy waste, diverting carbon pollution, and complying with the Clean Power Plan if they put their thinking caps on now.

The bills set up a cap and trade scheme on carbon pollution, with related legislation concerning green energy and compensation.

These benefits are a result of RGGI's market - based, cap - and - invest approach, which sets an annually declining limit on carbon pollution while enabling the power sector to achieve the reductions flexibly at least cost.

So you get the odd spectacle of Smith going before the Senate to denounce cap - and - trade — the widely endorsed idea that the Government should set a national ceiling on carbon emissions and then allow companies to buy and sell pollution credits — on populist grounds.

With a multi-pronged attack on carbon emissions and related pollution, cap - and - trade may be only one component, or the price may even collapse if they don't establish the right cap or a floor on prices.

What's more, cap and trade may be the world's best hope in putting a global price on carbon pollution.

A cap - and - trade system sets a limit or «cap» on the overall amount of carbon pollution from industry (and sometimes other sectors) and reduces that cap year after year, with a goal of hitting a pollution reduction target over time.

In the U.S., neither a carbon tax nor a cap - and - trade system to put a price on carbon pollution is under serious consideration; in contrast, China's carbon - trading program, which includes more than 2,000 pollution sources, is the second - largest trading system in the world (after the EU's).

The idea is that by setting a price on carbon, cap - and - trade forces businesses to figure out how best to cut pollution: