Sentences with phrase «climate protection legislation»

For example, in the past week, three major energy companies, PG&E, Exelon, and PNM have quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the chamber's ongoing denial of climate change and their attacks on climate protection legislation.

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Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.

«It is incumbent upon New York State to step up and protect New Yorkers, with legislation such as the Climate and Community Protection Act, transitioning into 100 % renewables with many new good union jobs, while boldly standing forward to save our communities and our salvage our future.»

Now Governor Cuomo is being urged to support what advocates say is the «most ambitious climate legislation in the country» — the Climate and Community Protecticlimate legislation in the country» — the Climate and Community ProtectiClimate and Community Protection Act.

Challengers hoping to unseat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) largely agreed that Congress should take a robust role in strengthening environmental safeguards, including passing legislation to combat climate change while bolstering regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Wangari Maathai podcast Listen to a February 9, 2009 interview with Wangari Maathi, prior to a briefing before Congress to include strong tropical forest protection measures in U.S. climate change legislation.

Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama's main channel for climate action.

Ms. Browner, a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was charged with directing the administrationâ $ ™ s effort to enact comprehensive legislation to reduce emissions of climate - altering gases and moving the country away from a dependence on dirty - burning fossil fuels.

Stopping in Brussels on a European speaking tour, Dennis Leaf, a senior adviser at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sought to ease European fears that the US will not be ready to sign up to a successor to the Kyoto Protocol if the Senate does not pass domestic climate legislation, including a cap - and - trade scheme, ahead of Copenhagen.

President Obama's chief of staff William Daley said on June 23 («Bill Daley: Obama won't sign anti-EPA bills») that the President is «not going to allow any legislation that impedes the need to improve our health and safety,» when asked about proposals to block or delay climate - related regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency.

We know that Trump has begun an all - out assault on our climate and environmental and health protection, symbolised by the systematic dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency, and wider environmental and health leprotection, symbolised by the systematic dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency, and wider environmental and health leProtection Agency, and wider environmental and health legislation.

Comprehensive climate change legislation was under consideration in the Senate after having passed the House, the Copenhagen Accords had been signed the previous month, the Environmental Protection Agency had announced its Endangerment Finding on greenhouse gases, and the climate science community was under vitriolic attack by the denial machine.

Brian Rogers, the executive director of America Rising Advanced Research, was briefly the research director for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, where he worked on a campaign «to pass comprehensive energy and climate change legislation.Climate Protection, where he worked on a campaign «to pass comprehensive energy and climate change legislation.climate change legislation.»

Sen. Mark Udall's (D) National Monument and Wilderness Bill scaled back the acreage proposed for protection to just over 20,000 acres, but the new legislation also failed in the prevailing Congressional climate of partisanship.

This obligation would likely impose a need to discuss the financial and operational impacts of environmental protection and climate change legislation on the issuer's business, which may include such things as the recent legislation and proposed legislation in B.C. (see a summary of climate change legislation here), Ontario (see, for example the proposed Environmental Protection Amendment Act) and in the U.S. (see, for example the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act colloquially known as Waxman - Markey) all, therefore, need to be taken tprotection and climate change legislation on the issuer's business, which may include such things as the recent legislation and proposed legislation in B.C. (see a summary of climate change legislation here), Ontario (see, for example the proposed Environmental Protection Amendment Act) and in the U.S. (see, for example the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act colloquially known as Waxman - Markey) all, therefore, need to be taken tProtection Amendment Act) and in the U.S. (see, for example the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act colloquially known as Waxman - Markey) all, therefore, need to be taken to account.

[85] While this strategy has not yet been finalised, the Indigenous Economic Development Strategy must be developed to enable economic development for as many Indigenous groups as possible, and be linked to streamlining and improving Indigenous rights under legislative arrangements such as native title and land rights, cultural heritage and under various environment protection and conservation legislation, carbon sequestration and climate change, industry development regulation [86], and water legislation.

(a) Align the Water Act 2007 with federal and state legislation, particularly those relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights, cultural heritage, environmental protection, the Native Title Act 1993, and climate change legislation when it is drafted.

Sections 5 - 10 of the EPBC Act be amended to include the relationship between the EPBC Act and legislation concerning climate change as well as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth) and the Water Act 2007 (Cth).