Sentences with phrase «carbon legislation»

The head of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association also said that the federal government is responding to «nervousness» among lenders over carbon legislation before Congress.

CEO is well - known for helping to nudge an often - reluctant utility industry into backing federal carbon legislation 10 years ago.

Household voting patterns are found to mirror the voting patterns by the U.S Congress on national carbon legislation.

I was active in pushing for U.S. carbon legislation, which will ultimately be necessary going forward.

We've been following some news out of the conference this week like the launch of Wal - Mart's green - innovations web site, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's aggressive cleantech rhetoric over local carbon legislation.

These campaigns always pretend to offer inspiration about we can do in America if we set our minds and hearts to it, but in fact the real message is what we can't do: we can't power America without coal, we can't keep our lights on without destroying Appalachia, and most important of all, we can't pass meaningful carbon legislation without wrecking the American economy.

Some might see USCAP as being leaders in the industry around climate change - but I think their real goal is to ensure they dominate public discourse and have strong lobbying positions for any future climate / carbon legislation.

The ABC also asked Rinehart if she had been funding campaigns against the country's carbon legislation and mining tax reforms.

And there is no mention of the net zero carbon legislation that Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom promised last year as part of the UK's commitment to the Paris Agreement.

That is not accounted for in their carbon legislation.

Even so, Mr. Obama had consistently backed carbon caps and carbon trading markets, and his advisers say he has had discussions with key Congressional lawmakers, «including one key moderate House Democrat whose support will be critical to passage of any carbon legislation,» wrote N.E.F.