Sentences with phrase «conservative climate plan»

Leaves energy decisions to individual choices... Sounds like a conservative climate plan.»

Sounds like a conservative climate plan.»

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The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

The NDP have put forward the most comprehensive plan to fight Climate Change that Alberta has ever seen, something that the Progressive Conservatives were unable to do in the final decade of their 44 years in government and the Wildrose Party has been unable to do in its four years as official opposition.

Yesterday, the Conservatives criticised the government's plans to deal with global warming, arguing that cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as is proposed in the new climate change bill, was not enough.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

Leaked documents from the free - market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change.

A group of prominent Republicans released a «conservative» plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions today, arguing that replacing Obama - era policies with a carbon - tax - and - dividend system would be a politically feasible way to fight off the worst effects of climate change.

Political scholar Steven F. Hayward recently presented in Issues the conservative position on global warming and climate change, including a look at measures that conservatives might accept as part of any action plan.

The plan reflects some of the concerns expressed in Issues by a conservative scholar who argued that all climate policies «must be compatible with individual liberty and democratic institutions,» but it also presses beyond what some conservative stalwarts might favor.

I am of the opinion that a climate conservative is someone who understands there is not much they can do about it and therefore either plan according the best (meaning most accurate and reliable) forecasting or simply go about their business and don't pay it much attention.

A year later, the American Petroleum Institute hired a conservative PR expert named Steve Milloy to develop a «Global Climate Science Communications Action Plan.»

«The other end of the spectrum: municipal climate change mitigation planning in the politically conservative Dallas - Fort Worth region.»

The timing of this e-mail, basically announcing the formation of this group (even though its Web site URL has been registered since 2000), comes suspiciously at a time when Stephen Harper's federal conservative government is facing intense criticism for lacking a climate change plan and for being soft on greenhouse gas emitters.

A water and climate scientist with decades of research in his field has admitted to deceiving the free - market conservative Heartland Institute into leaking confidential documents about their donors, fundraising efforts and plans to spread doubt about climate change.

Leaked internal strategy and funding documents from the Heartland Institute, obtained by DeSmog, revealed that the conservative climate change denial think tank planned to pay approximately $ 25,000 in June, September, and December ($ 75,000 total budget) for a «K - 12 Climate Education Project» headed by David climate change denial think tank planned to pay approximately $ 25,000 in June, September, and December ($ 75,000 total budget) for a «K - 12 Climate Education Project» headed by David Climate Education Project» headed by David Wojick.

Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund gave over $ 125m to conservative causes during these three years while working to oppose Obama's climate change plan, as reported by The Guardian in a June, 2015 investigative piece.

Thought - provoking plan from highly respected conservatives to both strengthen the economy & confront climate risks: https://t.co/U6kmrQTPth

Much as I encourage somebody actually coming up with a conservative plan for dealing with climate disruption, I make no pretense to being or leaning Republican.

Representatives from major fossil fuel corporations and industry groups had joined forces with operatives from major conservative think tanks and public relations experts to draft what they called their Global Climate Science Communications (GCSC) plan.

In stark contrast, a week later, the Conservatives eschewed any mention of climate change in favour of driving home the party's core message: Cameron, Osborne and chums have a «long term economic plan» and are sticking to it.

News abounds today about conservative think - tank Heartland Institute's plan to discredit climate disruption science.

E&E Legal sponsored (PDF) a session at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) titled «Fake Climate News Camouflaging an Anti-Capitalist Agenda — and What President Trump Plans To Do About It.»

Environment Minister Peter Kent says oil sands opponents «treacherous» Reuters «The right - of - center Conservative government was taken aback last week when the U.S. administration delayed approval of TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL pipeline... Much to Kent's anger, two members of Parliament from the opposition New Democrats went to Washington this week to argue the pipeline should not go ahead until Canada has come up with a better plan to combat climate change.»

Conservatives who support, or at least are willing to consider, taxing carbon emissions (yes, there are some) fall into two camps on revenue treatment: backing the carbon dividend plan proposed by the Climate Leadership Council (which in turn draws on the fee - and - dividend approach espoused by the Citizens Climate Lobby); or urging that the carbon revenues be applied to reduce the U.S. corporate income tax.

Conservative think tanks and energy industry insiders devise a plan to make climate change a «non-issue» and derail Kyoto and any «further initiatives» to thwart global warming.