Sentences with phrase «climate change in the district»

After three years of intense scrutiny, climate and economic experts have determined that a carbon fee - and - rebate policy would be the strongest and most comprehensive approach to addressing climate change in the District in an equitable manner.

I support a bold, fair, and simple policy for fighting climate change in the District of Columbia.

Not exact matches

The New America Foundation actually has several of these in the works — quickie animations that help explain a complex issue or statistic; maps comparing all 50 states» climate change policies; even an interactive database that compares all 14,000 U.S. school districts.

Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care on the policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them better.»

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

Voters in the four - county district said they believe that climate change is a significant threat (74 - 20 percent); favor a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants (66 - 27 percent), consider themselves 2nd Amendment rather than gun control supporters (54 - 43 percent) and support keeping Obamacare in place (50 - 45 percent).

Constituents in his 18th District asked about topics ranging from immigration to climate change to health care.

While many in the GOP dispute whether climate change is even happening, Chris Gibson of New York's 19th district says too - frequent damaging storms in his district are enough evidence that we've entered a «new normal.»

The three candidates running in New York's 21st Congressional District argued about the environment and climate change in a debate on Mountain Lake Public Television Monday night.

«The aim of the house party series is to get to know all the wonderful folks that make up this district in its many neighborhoods, to get neighbors to meet each other to share food and laughs, and to share my campaign's message that whether it is addressing climate change, fixing our broken government and economy — together we can get it done,» Platts said.

A former district councillor, she became MP for South Northamptonshire in 2010 and - after serving as a junior Treasury minister and as a member of the Treasury select committee - she was made a junior minister in the energy and climate change department in May last year.

He also challenged government to expedite action on the national climate change policy to ensure its implementation at the regional and district level, to address issues of climate change in the region, since the region is most at risk of climate change.

«With the Trump administration in place, people who don't necessarily even believe in climate change, I'm really worried whether the money will even be there,» said Councilman Donovan Richards, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Rockaway.

Speaking at a forum on climate change at Nyinahin in the Atwima - Mponua District, she said about 8,000 cocoa farmers had benefitted.

Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo says it's «vital» that lawmakers begin working on legislation to address climate change, which he says could damage both the economy and environment of his district in South Florida.

In another case decided in April the U.S. District Court for the District for Montana rebuked the FWS for apparently bowing to political pressure and ignoring climate change science when it withdrew its proposal to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 201In another case decided in April the U.S. District Court for the District for Montana rebuked the FWS for apparently bowing to political pressure and ignoring climate change science when it withdrew its proposal to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 201in April the U.S. District Court for the District for Montana rebuked the FWS for apparently bowing to political pressure and ignoring climate change science when it withdrew its proposal to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 201in 2014.

Evaluations of the impact of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) in four multiracial, multiethnic school districts in New York City showed that 84 percent of teachers who responded to a survey reported positive changes in classroom climate, 71 percent reported moderate or significant decreases in physical violence in the classroom, and 66 percent observed less name - calling and few verbal insults.

Later, as dean of students and then principal at West Chicago High School in Illinois» Community High School District 94, he continued promoting a student - centered culture, but says the climate was not conducive to change because of an ongoing acrimonious relationship between the teachers» union and the school board.

In the recent debate over NCLB reauthorization, for example, Democratic senators sought to create a new program allowing districts to apply for funding to help teach about climate change.

Through these efforts teachers will be able to will enhance school climate, make a difference in the lives of their students, change the fabric of their classroom communities and impact systemic change in their districts.

DC School Reform Now was founded in 2008 with a desire to support new education reforms in the changing climate of public education in the District.

So, while we discovered an abundance of research emphasizing the impact of a positive school climate, the challenge for our group was to listen to each other - and to the broader community of educators and stakeholders - and identify recommendations that would create meaningful change in our district.

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And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Rosenberg, TX «As a direct result, the climate and culture of our schools and our district changed substantially... an increase in student attendance rates and academic test scores for ALL subject areas...»

Teachers worked collaboratively to change the teaching habits and climate in the school, he said, and they became only one of three schools in the district to shake the underperforming label during that period.

For findings on school environment changes during the later years of Philadelphia's school discipline reform, see Discipline in Context: Suspension, Climate, and PBIS in the School District of Philadelphia.

Overall, the «School Climate Bill of Rights» adopted by the Los Angeles Unified School Board has successfully decreased suspensions in the district, and driven change in the state of California.

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A few weeks ago, I had an unusual — and challenging — assignment: providing a one - hour «tutorial» on the basic science of human - induced climate change to a Federal District Court in San Francisco.

Bob Inglis at TEDxJacksonville: Although he hales from the reddest district of the reddest state in the United States of America, Bob Inglis tells a story of how he came to appreciate the threat of climate change and how he believes the solution lies in the bedrock principals of conservatism.

Dr Tim Ball, who by sheer coincidence is also being sued by the litigious Dr Mann - if you're having trouble keeping track, Dr Ball is the accused in Mann's suit in British Columbia; I'm the accused in Mann's suit in the District of Columbia; I forget who the accused is in Mann's suit in the Republic of Colombia, but it'll come to me... At any rate, Dr Ball has a useful overview of the supermodels on the climate catwalk that includes this revealing quote from the late Stephen Schneider, Stanford professor, founding editor of Climatic Change, and advisor to multiple US presidents up to and including Obama:

12/19/17 — Among registered Republicans nationwide, only about half say that climate change is happening and fewer than a third say humans are responsible, yet a majority in every congressional district say they support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, according to a new study.

Judicial review is about to meet peer review in a federal courtroom in San Francisco, where sparring cities and fossil fuel companies have been called to brief U.S. District Judge William Alsup this Wednesday on the basics of climate change.

IPS News: Farmers in this fertile central district of south Nepal are convinced that an intense drought between May and early July that destroyed their maize crops is the result of climate change.

Sadly, Smith is in a Texas district unlikely to elect someone to replace him (though democrat Tom Wakely is running against Smith in Texas District 21 for the November election, and is very clearly on the side of reality when it comes to climate district unlikely to elect someone to replace him (though democrat Tom Wakely is running against Smith in Texas District 21 for the November election, and is very clearly on the side of reality when it comes to climate District 21 for the November election, and is very clearly on the side of reality when it comes to climate change).

Over the rest of the summer my primary focus was on appellate work in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the development of a youth climate change campaign for Eugene, Oregon.

In addition to this effort, I authored the legislation creating the District's first Climate Change and Resiliency Commission; I led the fight to have the District's retirement and pension funds divest from carbon and fossil fuel investment holdings; I wrote several bills to expand opportunities for solar installation; and I led the effort to name 2018 as the Year of the Anacostia River to celebrate and bring attention to the river on the eastern half of our city.

She lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she serves on the District of Columbia's Commission on Climate Change and Resiliency.

Maya Sherpa, a 35 - year - old mountaineer from Okhaldhunga district, said they observed the impacts of climate change in the high Himalayan region during their K2 expedition.

Alternate title: Science education gets Gleicked From AAAS: «Is climate change education the new evolution, threatened in U.S. school districts and state education standards by well - organized interest groups?

This newsletter discusses the publishing of rivers climate change indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsclimate change indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newslchange indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newslChange Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsClimate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newslChange Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsletter.

Posted in Carbon, China, Government Policies, Health and Climate Change, News Comments Off on Beijing to Ban Use of Coal in Main Districts by 2020

It's time to advance precedent - setting climate protection and economic justice, right here in the District of Columbia Our proposed carbon fee - and - rebate policy would hold polluters accountable for the costs of climate change, level the playing field for clean energy, and lift up every resident of DC (that's you!)

Councilmember Robert White (At - Large) stated: «I'm glad to support a policy that will address climate change while maintaining robust economic growth in the District.

But in districts without such resources, science teachers can use the ample instructional ideas available on the web to prepare classroom activities and lesson plans about renewable energy and climate change.

A U.S. District Court in San Francisco will be the setting for a first - ever hearing on the science of climate change, scheduled for March 21 by William Alsup, a federal judge.

April 17, 2018: In Colorado, the city of Boulder, Boulder County and San Miguel County file a lawsuit in District Court seeking to hold Exxon and Suncor accountable for costs related to climate changIn Colorado, the city of Boulder, Boulder County and San Miguel County file a lawsuit in District Court seeking to hold Exxon and Suncor accountable for costs related to climate changin District Court seeking to hold Exxon and Suncor accountable for costs related to climate change.

What he wasn't thinking about is the vast farm acreage being fallowed in his district due to climate change — an impact that is surely larger.