Sentences with phrase «climate bill»

He strongly opposed a failed climate bill in 2009, because he said it would have given the federal government billions of dollars without truly limiting emissions.

Of course that could all change with a new climate bill on the horizon that will finally put a price on carbon.

I noted that environmental campaigners were in denial for much of the 2000's over prospects for passing comprehensive climate bill.

Some environmental campaigners had already prepared talking points if his proposal included outlines of a weak climate bill.

The debate over job creation and a national climate bill has, for most people, been settled.

In its 2016 legislative session, the state passed no fewer than six groundbreaking climate bills: setting historic targets for greenhouse gas reductions, helping disadvantaged communities build climate resilience, and more.

Did the brief burst of headlines and tsunami of attack blogging * contribute to the end of serious discussion of a comprehensive climate bill?

Both Sens. John Kerry and Lindsey Graham, key architects of the Senate climate bill coming in 2010, are in favor of expanded nuclear use, but of course many environmentalists oppose more nuclear because of safety risks and cost.

«Our analysis of the House - passed climate bill found that consumer bill savings from energy efficiency offset the costs to consumers of greenhouse gas emissions limits, making the overall package affordable to consumers,» stated Steven Nadel, Executive Director for the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy (ACEEE).

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It certainly would send a more powerful signal to other nations in December if the US has passed a strong climate bill by then.

But the vote amplifies the sense that the Senate is nowhere near close to coming up with a viable counterpart to the House climate bill passed last year.

«I support NY OFF because it's the only climate bill before the legislature that actually does what the climate science says we must do.

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With a federal climate bill stalled on Capitol Hill indefinitely, companies wanting to invest in projects are in limbo, panelists said yesterday.

But this spring, several Democrats, including Senator Barbara Boxer, are trying to push new climate bills through Congress.

With climate bill hearings in full swing over in the Senate, the White House has finally begun a push for clean energy reform.

It's still facing a tough fight, but the last thing we should do is count out the Senate climate bill now.

John Kerry has said in reality merely getting the Senate's climate bill out of committee in time for the COP15 UN climate talks in December would be a good start.

There's no hiding the House Democrats» bloodbath, with more than two dozen members who voted for the Pelosi - led climate bill losing their seats, and more likely to fall as the final tallies come in.

See: Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About «Global Governance» — July 10, 2009 — It is no wonder that more and more Americans are rejecting climate fears.

Snowmen in twelve cities around Finland encouraged the Finnish government to draft a comprehensive and strong Climate Bill today.

For example, a Heritage Foundation analysis of the Waxman - Markey climate bill proposed in the US House of Representatives in 2009 concluded that the legislation would cost the average American family $ 1500 per year — a figure 10 times higher than any non-partisan economic analysis (see below).

Hanna said his campaign strategy is simply to be himself, represent the district's views and point out Arcuri's controversial changes in position on his health care vote and a cap - and - trade climate bill.

On the eve of today's rollout of the Kerry - Lieberman climate bill (that was leaked yesterday) in the U.S. Senate, The Economist has delved into a potentially influential new paper on reforming the climate wars.

, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which will begin hearings on the Waxman - Markey climate bill next week:

Just when leaders in the U.S. Senate admitted to abandoning their plan of issuing a federal climate bill by the end of this year, top Chinese officials were discussing how to launch carbon trading programs under their country's next Five - Year Plan (2011 - 15).

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Then a real comprehensive Energy / Climate bill written by the likes of Jerry McNerney D - CA (PhD in Physics) should take center stage.

He says «cap and trade» schemes like the one in the Kyoto Protocol and various climate bills under consideration in Congress do little, if anything, to help the poor and middle class.

«While getting the federal climate bill signed into law is far more central to solving global warming,» he wrote, «green - lighting the FutureGen project sends an important signal and sets up a test of technology that could be part of the climate fight.»

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Reflecting on lawmakers» struggles over climate bills through most of the last decade, it seems clear that insistence on comprehensive one - step legislation including firm, declining caps on emissions from the get - go — before building confidence and momentum around the new direction — is a path to nowhere.

The proposed US climate bill only stabilizes the greenhouse gas emissions at the 1990 level.

Its history has not been partisan, with Republican senators such as John McCain, Lamar Alexander, Susan Collins, Lindsey O. Graham and Jeff Flake (as a House member) having introduced climate bills in the past.

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In the end, whether or not the Senate passes a cap - in - name - only climate bill, the long - term failure of Kyoto and all other efforts to establish binding emissions caps is virtually assured and is a function of a basic technological problem.

The Republican Party has often blocked efforts to address climate change in recent years, including a sweeping climate bill in June 2008.

The House climate bill includes a handful of provisions that would reward buyers of efficient homes.

The funds went to building a network of thinktanks and activist groups that worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and mobilized against Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants due to be finalised in the summer of 2015.

The Campaign Climate Bill contains the contents of a strong Climate Law and is the most important campaigning tool for the Finnish Big Ask.

But yesterday President Barack Obama signaled that he might be willing to separate the two issues, which would certainly delay the United States from passing a comprehensive climate bill at least until 2011.

I normally count myself among those people — mostly based on the fact that the US going to Copenhagen with a completed (and, fingers crossed, much strengthened) climate bill sends a much more powerful message than «we're working on it.»