Sentences with phrase «climate change legislation»

But remember, this isn't the death of climate change legislation.

She'd worked on climate change legislation and a national strategy for suicide prevention; she'd been a strong advocate for women's and LGBT rights.

This administration appears more interested in passing the buck than in passing climate change legislation that would make the necessary cuts in global warming emissions.

Businesses expect that comprehensive climate change legislation will be passed soon.

I don't like the fact that there are a lot of companies that are hopping on the bandwagon for climate change legislation.

The goal is to publicly cast doubt on the science so the public will not support climate change legislation.

The party itself was full of chatter about climate change legislation, what the economic downturn means for solar, and all sorts of other really fun things that you talk about at parties.

The state of economic turmoil throws up a whole new question mark over climate change legislation.

There are 66 countries around the world with climate change legislation.

I saw climate change legislation mentioned 1 time in that whole thing.

With varying opinions on the economic costs of current climate change legislation, some assume economists would be opposed to climate change policy.

The same cross talk should inform climate change legislation.

The most important point is that fossil fuel costs will continue to grow in the years to come, with or without climate change legislation.

Those interests among industry don't always align; on the issue of climate change legislation and regulatory actions, we have certainly seen this to be the case.

I have some concerns about the overall direction of the bill before us today, and whether it will lead us closer to or further away from passing climate change legislation.

Even conservative politicians who support climate change legislation have been targeted.

Current climate change legislation will begin by distributing allowances and then slowly moving toward an auction system.

But with little to no movement on climate change legislation in Congress, the responsibility to tackle transportation's contribution has fallen on state and local leaders.

We don't have federal climate change legislation in place in the United States, but the Obama administration is pushing for a carbon tax in the new budget.

Jason Grumet, the Obama campaign's lead energy and environment advisor, has indicated that the president - elect plans to move quickly on getting climate change legislation through in 2009 and working to make the U.S. a leader on mitigating global warming.

-- Administration analyses of proposed climate change legislation suggest that C.C.S. technologies will not be widely deployed in the next two decades absent financial incentives that supplement projected carbon prices....

Mexico's Senate unanimously approved landmark climate change legislation yesterday that sets the country on a pioneering path to drastically reduce its domestic greenhouse gas emissions.

Roundtable Discussion at ELECTRIC POWER 2008 Listen to what American Electric Power Chairman, President, and CEO Michael Morris had to say about the likely effects of climate change legislation at the 2008 ELECTRIC POWER Conference's Power Industry CEO Roundtable.

Obama, who has faced resistance from opposition Republicans and even some fellow Democrats to setting caps on greenhouse gas emissions, acknowledged that the U.S. Senate would not pass climate change legislation before Copenhagen.

The Companies support national climate change legislation that would provide a consistent, economy - wide approach to addressing this issue and are currently taking action to protect the environment and address climate change while meeting the growing needs of their service territory.

«Once that turns, I think people opposing serious climate change legislation are going to be in a really tough spot,» Longabaugh said.

In June, the U.S. Senate spent several days debating climate change legislation.

Climate czar Carol Browner is spotted on Capitol Hill almost daily on a senator - by - senator effort to push climate change legislation through the Senate.

A coalition of groups, including some that were impersonated by coal lobbyists fighting against U.S. climate change legislation, have banded together in search of further evidence of wrongdoing in the ballooning fraudulent letter scandal.

Also testifying was actress Sigourney Weaver, who made passing references to her roles in «Alien» and «Avatar» while urging Congress to pass global climate change legislation.

The Center for Public Integrity found that ACCCE spent $ 4.7 million dollars lobbying in the first 6 months of 2008 - more than any other organization devoted solely to influencing climate change legislation, and more than 5x the amount spent by either of the leading wind or solar industry groups.

But Mr. Lugar's more incremental approach is designed to appeal to moderate Republicans and a group of Midwestern Democrats who are nervous about the impact of broad climate change legislation on jobs in states that are heavily dependent on coal and manufacturing.

Now we've had a big reversal in Congress and it does not favor climate change legislation because the voters do not favor climate change.

Unfortunately, Samuelsohn's «reasons why Jeb Bush could be the man to bring climate change legislation to the promise land» turn out not to have anything to do with Bush's record or statements on the issue.

With healthcare reform a pressing and contentious issue in Washington, it appears climate change legislation has been put on the back - burner for the moment.

Only recently have conservationists begun to grasp what a debacle it was to enact climate change legislation in Europe without first putting in place global deforestation treaties.

Between 2006 and 2007, the researchers note, key Republicans and Democrats worked together to advocate climate change legislation.

I do think we'll see climate change legislation if Congress and the Obama Administration recognize the global challenge of regulating greenhouse gas emissions, since global warming knows no borders.

Notables whiffs: Failure to ban triclosan from personal care products and to pass pioneering climate change legislation that would have eliminated greenhouse gas emissions across the state by 2050.

«We can not avoid a first step that takes us further away from an achievable consensus from common - sense climate change legislation,» Baucus said.

With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it's going to get worse, and that action is needed sooner rather than later.

Or, amid reports that the Administration and Congress may soft - pedal climate change legislation this year, perhaps the Obama team doesn't want to highlight the issue.