Sentences with phrase «climate change regulations»

The situation the company finds itself in now is a significant amount of uncertainty about what climate change regulation might do to the cost of coal plants.

In the US a larger proportion of Republicans in the legislature along with key Republican members having indicated their intentions to pull back progress in climate change regulation by repealing EPA regulation of carbon dioxide and continued attacks on science and scientists.

Even before the prospect of new climate change regulations, the US coal industry was being clobbered by the competition from cheap natural gas.

The brunt of Ankney's anger rests on climate change regulations like the Clean Power Plan, which he refers to as part of a national «war on coal.»

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) forthcoming climate change regulations for new and existing electricity generating units have been appropriately labeled the «war on coal,» [1] because the proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions would essentially prohibit the construction of new coal - fired power plants and force existing ones into early retirement.

During Obama's second term, it's expected that she will oversee far more sweeping climate change regulations, which would restrict greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing coal - fired power plants — the nation's top contributor to global warming pollution.

Virginia is moving forward with climate change regulations that could mean the expansion of a 10 - state cap - and - trade system extending from Massachusetts to Maryland.

EDMONTON — NDP Environment critic Brian Mason released the following statement on delayed climate change regulations from the PC government:

In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold an Obama - era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.

Washington, DC, for example, is at the heart of federal climate change regulation, so lawyers here are most likely to be involved in policy drafting.

In addition, our litigators defend clients in a wide range of civil and criminal enforcement actions arising out of the major federal environmental statutes — including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund), FIFRA, RCRA, TSCA, and EPCRA (Right - to - Know)-- as well as climate change regulation, renewable energy regulation, and project development.

This report provides a review of global climate change regulations and attendant risks to companies.

European regulations on greenhouse gas emissions mean the U.S. airline industry may be the first to face climate change regulation

Democrats tackle Willie Soon It was arguably to block climate change regulation that Congress invited Soon — and other scientists skeptical of the mainstream view on global warming — to testify.

«If they can't get climate change regulations passed through Congress, the administration is going to do whatever it can to keep moving the ball forward,» said Hamilton Hackney, an environmental attorney and shareholder at the Boston office of Greenberg Traurig LLP.

That measure formed the Obama administration's economic justification for issuing climate change regulations that would harm some industries, such as coal mining, noting that those costs would be outweighed by the economic benefits of preventing billions of tons of planet - warming pollution.

Prior to joining CCC, he worked on linkages between climate change regulation and development at ODI (Overseas Development Institute).

It is about trying to bring about climate change regulations using the most powerful development - stopping law in the land, the Endangered Species Act.

Kansas Teenager Pledges to Petition Department of Health and Environment for Climate Change Regulations After Court Tells Her to Go to Agency

And citizen action has produced big changes — protection of the coastline through the creation of the California Coastal Act, a ban on new nuclear power plants, the recall of Gray Davis after rolling electricity blackouts and sky - high electricity prices, and more recently, a refusal to roll back stringent climate change regulation.

Rep. Hal Rogers (R - Kentucky), the incoming chair of the House Appropriations committee, said he «would be open to use riders on appropriations bills to block EPA's climate change regulations next year,» according to ClimateWire (by subscription).

Climate change regulation changes and increases the complexity of relationships between natural gas and other energy activities (e.g. coal - to - gas generation switch), increases the nature and variety of candidate actions available, and thus magnifies the uncertainties that must be taken into account by any useful forecast, whether a conditional assessment to gain insights and understand potential vulnerabilities or an attempted prediction of the future.

But interestingly, back in February before the repeal announcement, Arkansas Public Service Commission Chair Ted Thomas told E&E News that he was concerned climate change regulations could snap back under a future administration if the current EPA doesn't get the CPP rollback right.

The Republican platform slated for approval at the party's convention includes expanded offshore oil - and - gas development, opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling rigs and thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate change regulations.

The lawsuit, headed by California and its coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia, represents an important step in California's ongoing battle with the Trump administration over climate change regulations — the challenge marks California's 10th lawsuit against the EPA and its 32nd since Trump took office.

An unrealistic reliance on untested carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology risks leaving the companies with huge stranded assets in the future, as international climate change regulations are strengthened at Copenhagen next year.

The paper urged policymakers to exercise caution when considering carbon regulations and warned that if «climate change regulation proceeds unchecked, it will likely produce policy that is out of touch with both the real world and objective science.»

China could play a pivotal role in the demand for «low - carbon» commodities and disrupt demand in the seaborne bulks as it adopts a leadership role in climate change regulation.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, left, and Podesta, center, are working to push through sweeping climate change regulations.

Doubt is rising on a link between human activity and greenhouse gases, yet we are still saddled with climate change regulations

ALEC's controversial work has caused its member companies to abandon it, such as pushing the National Rifle Association's Stand Your Ground laws, efforts to undermine clean energy incentives and delay climate change regulations, and breaking workers unions.

Trump promised to withdraw from the Paris agreement on the campaign trail and already signed executive orders to dismantle Obama - era climate change regulations.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

«The situation the company finds itself in now is a significant amount of uncertainty about what climate change regulation might do to the cost of coal plants,» Eskelsen said Monday.

In addition, the President will emphasize the importance of decisions on climate change regulation being openly debated and made by the elected representatives of the people rather than unelected regulators and judges.

Before he arrived at his point about the grave sins committed by opponents of climate change regulations, he urged Americans to «listen to the oceans» and «the oysters.»

The only time the EPA doesn't look at its new climate change regulation in a vacuum is when it discusses potential benefits.

Next month, Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio will hold a «people's hearing» on the Trump administration's proposal to repeal Obama's climate change regulation for power plants.

Incumbent Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, had initiated a process to create a greenhouse gas system after President Trump decided to scrap the Obama administration's climate change regulations this year.

While Derwin thinks that Trump's presidency is «a travesty» on multiple levels, he is particularly outraged by his rollback of climate change regulations.

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

It calls on Exxon to assess how new green technology and climate change regulations, including one Paris agreement goal to hold global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius, could affect business through 2040 and beyond.