Sentences with phrase «clean energy legislation»

It's a wise political play for the company as critics of clean energy legislation sound protectionist alarms over China's potential upper hand in the global cleantech industry.

Pennsylvania last enacted significant clean energy legislation in 2008, and the targets in the Commonwealth's 2004 Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Act were modest at the time and embarrassingly anemic now.

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Additionally, I have supported comprehensive clean energy legislation like the House - passed American Clean Energy and Security Act, which included a cap and trade program, as well as Green Bank and Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund initiatives I authored.

At a hearing earlier this year on clean energy legislation, Mr Gore was challenged by Republican congresswoman, Marsha Blackburn, over his investments.

I welcome the decision by the Obama Administration... The Congress is working on a comprehensive solution to global warming, and I am committed to moving clean energy legislation this year that will include perspectives from across our nation to create jobs, improve our national security, and reduce global warming.

From 2005 to 2008, the Kochs handed out almost $ 25 million to groups actively opposing clean energy legislation, carbon emissions regulations, and other environmental policies — groups like the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and Americans for Prosperity, among many, many others.

WFP Capital Region Chapter Co-Chair Karen Scharff said the party had backed Murphy because he «stood up to Big Oil and voted for landmark clean energy legislation.»

«He was really the first person out there trying to push for comprehensive clean energy legislation from a jobs and economic perspective,» said Bracken Hendricks, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group.

Both men voted against clean energy legislation.

In the wake of vicious attacks on the climate science community and the failure to achieve a binding agreement at Copenhagen, and with climate and clean energy legislation floundering in the Senate, the need for a strong message from the President is more urgent than ever.

A true environmental movement — one that is pro-clean power, not just pro-solar and wind — is required to win the ambitious clean energy legislation we need to solve the climate crisis.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (February 12, 2018)-- The Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change, led by Senator Marc Pacheco (Taunton) and Sen. Jamie Eldridge (Acton), introduced clean energy legislation today, a revised version of S479.

«We've seen a lot of bills that would grow renewables,» said Autumn Proudlove, who tracks clean energy legislation in the southeast.

It's an interesting question for followers of both politics and climate issues: How would things have turned out if Obama had thrown his weight behind clean energy legislation instead of health care reform?

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It is too bad, as Andrew Price notes, that the «need to stop climate change» is not seen as an effective enough argument to convince Americans to rally around clean energy legislation.

He gave a fiery (for him) endorsement of clean energy legislation during his SOTU, and he hasn't backed down in supporting it.

A trusted and sought after industry advisor, SkyPower continues to be instrumental in the success of comprehensive clean energy legislation.

The Koch brothers, their family members, and their employees direct a web of financing that supports conservative special interest groups and think - tanks, with a strong focus on fighting environmental regulation, opposing clean energy legislation, and easing limits on industrial pollution.

LCV Action Fund President Gene Karpinski praised Bishop's support of clean energy legislation, saying he «stands with the people of New York who need clean energy jobs now, and not with the Big Oil companies and special interests who are blocking progress in Washington.»

With all the controversial climate and clean energy legislation in North Carolina in the past year, one might be surprised to hear that the state ranks fifth in the U.S. in the amount of solar power installed in the first quarter of 2013.

My hope is that this eruption in clean energy legislation will be the driving force we'll note when we celebrate Earth Day's 41st birthday next year.

But there has been no clear indication of whether the President will use this opportunity to reinvigorate the push for comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation.

Calling for «a comprehensive, proactive national planning and preparedness strategy for limiting and adapting to the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of climate change,» Climate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legislation.

The stakes are too high for Obama to leave the fate of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation in the hands of a weak messaging strategy and squander the progress that has already been made.

«It is essential that any clean energy legislation not only address the crisis of climate change, but include strong provisions to ensure the strength and viability of domestic manufacturing,» the letter said.

Five prominent non-profits have launched the «Polluter Fraud Hotline» (1-866-363-4648), inviting average citizens or industry insiders to blow the whistle on any deceptive or illegal tactics that big polluters and their lobbyists are using in opposition to clean energy legislation.

The collapse of Congressional action on climate and clean energy legislation this year, after the House had passed a highly - compromised bill and Senate sponsors had painstakingly sought to bring forward something similar, was due mainly to lock - step opposition from Republicans along with corporate and parochially - oriented Democrats.

The survey did not correlate opinions on global warming with partisan or regional issues, which have become increasingly relevant as climate and clean energy legislation moves through Congress.

It was part of a package of Clean Energy legislation the Labor Government negotiated with the Greens, who hold the balance of power in the Senate.

Spencer, Thomas and Carole - Anne, Senit and Anna, Drutschinin (2012): The political economy of Australia's climate change and clean energy legislation: lessons learned.

Because Democrats have been the most vocal supporters of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation and of climate science itself, some Republicans have seized the opportunity to use accusations against climate scientists as reason enough to dismiss Democratic policy intended to mitigate climate change out of hand.

So it's a bummer that Americans still need to be convinced to support clean energy legislation.

Those who've long waited for climate and clean energy legislation to make its way out of the Senate are nervously watching the days tick away before the November elections — wherein the prospect of lost Democratic seats

As an Ambassador for the National Wildlife Federation, she is politically active in the legislative fight for the environment and has made several visits to Capitol Hill to speak with members of Congress on behalf of clean energy legislation.

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Though the clean energy legislation introduced to the Senate a couple weeks ago has faded into the background as the BP Gulf spill rages on, there's still a real opportunity for lawmakers to make the case for transitioning away

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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee, another attendee at the meeting, said that as long as a «national energy tax» was off the table, he saw «no reason why we can't have clean energy legislation.»

«As I have said, I am committed to trying to enact comprehensive clean energy legislation this session of Congress.