Sentences with phrase «choosing public energy»

Marvel et al will be forever used by green advocates to claim empirical estimates are biased low, and must therefore be ignored when choosing public energy policies.

Not exact matches

The Legislature is free to modify the Clean Energy Standard however it chooses, and more importantly, to place restrictions on the Public Service Commission to limit its ability to levy taxes and spend the proceeds — a power that's supposed to be reserved for the people's elected representatives, and that Flanagan's bill seeks to partially take back.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate, said the city needs to implement a public power utility so Syracuse has the «power to choose 100 percent clean energy.»

«I chose not to speak publicly about these disagreements, however, because I feel my responsibility as CEO of Success Academy is not to advance my personal beliefs on a broad range of political issues but instead to focus all of my energies on advocating for our kids and public policies that expand educational opportunity and parent choice,» she wrote.

«It is in the spirit of common purpose that we express our disappointment that the Department has apparently chosen not to make this review — which as outlined in your memo has the potential to upend energy markets around the country — public and open to input from industry, grid operators, state regulators, and other key stakeholders.»

If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.

Her EcoChallenges this year include using public transit, choosing carbon offsets, connecting with new non-profits in order to be more involved in her community — and choosing clean and renewable energy.

Apart from the obvious connection that Peabody is a company which stands to lose if climate science influences public policy it is not quite clear why Peabody Energy Company, an American company, chose to influence the British Government in this way.

We work with clients that positively impact their communities by inspiring people to choose energy - efficient LEDs; opt for sustainable seafood; be safer on the road; take public transit; save water; recycle; compost; protect shorelines; choose a safe sex...

By choosing clean energy pathways and avoiding an overreliance on natural gas, we can ensure a more consumer - friendly, resilient, and diversified electricity system, while also delivering cost - effective CO2 emissions reductions and improved public health.

Your government may even choose to set up a kiosk in public areas such as city hall or the courthouse to demonstrate the turbine's operation and energy - producing capacity.

The most cost - efficient way to choose options for emissions reductions is to ensure that investors in energy infrastructure, public or private, face a price for each tonne of carbon they emit, and earn a return for each tonne they prevent.

Noel Cain, regulatory policy manager for Alabama Power, said during last month's public hearing that renewables could help further diversify the company's energy sources, giving the company greater flexibility in choosing the most cost - effective option for customers.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

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