Sentences with phrase «debate on climate legislation»

The need to deal with health care, financial regulations, and a skyrocketing deficit could postpone a full debate on climate legislation until the summer, when almost everyone figures it would be too late.

Not exact matches

While the omission of any question on climate change during the three Presidential debates garnered widespread attention, the legislation of this soft drug was the second major absentee in the televised clash between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump.

With Congress preparing to debate climate legislation, environmentalists and their allies are spending millions on ad campaigns aimed at building public support for a cap - and - trade bill and scoring early political points.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

Republicans mounted a filibuster and prevented any real debate on the issues surrounding the bill that might have at least helped in the next round of attempts at climate legislation.

The President's remarks will also inform the Senate - scheduled debate on climate change legislation.

Washington, DC — «The nation's mayors are disappointed that the U.S. Senate is unwilling to move beyond initial debate on needed federal climate legislation to position America to do its part to combat the global threat of climate change.»

It would be far too facile to blame the failure of the Copenhagen talks or American carbon - capping legislation on these revelations, given how the unraveling of the economy and other issues were dominating debate over climate.

In this year, cap and trade legislation passed in the U.S. House, debate began on a U.S. Senate version of the bill, and international climate accord meetings took place in Copenhagen.

The data also could help color a looming Senate debate on energy and climate - change legislation that would cap greenhouse gases blamed for contributing to global warming.

If action on climate change amounted to legislation to outlaw, say, wooden pencils then, while scientists may debate the rights and wrongs of the issue, you can almost be sure that our media would not be filled with the dispute.

As hearings begin this afternoon on landmark climate change legislation, the debate will bear the mark of an unprecedented corporate campaign over the past year to preserve coal's role in the nation's energy future.

Yet both parties are complicit in pushing some of the worst legislation on this front — the grotesque farm bill and the bloated energy bill, for example — and in obfuscating the rest (see: Lieberman - Warner bill; and for some excellent ongoing coverage of the debate, head over to Grist and Climate Progress).

My focus on the economic impacts is based upon the Left's own insistence of making that topic the focus of the debate about climate legislation.

Very few politicians supporting any meaningful legislation on climate change, limited discussion in the Press and political debates, projections for increasing fossil fuel use as far out as the eye can see, etc..»

Most parties maintained old and rigid positions and did not seek a common ground: More Team Players Needed Equally disappointing was the ongoing lack of U.S. leadership in guiding the discussion toward a deal in Copenhagen due to the Obama administration's competing priorities, including the drawn out debate on the Senate's proposed climate legislation.

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«For example, when Congress was debating the climate change legislation earlier in the year, I received a call from a reporter at BNA who asked about the potential effect of the environmental legislation on the construction industry.