Sentences with phrase «emissions legislation reducing»

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The different governments lead by Mrs. Thatcher restrain the emission of the monetary mass, raise the rate of interest, reduce in a drastic way the taxes on the highest incomes, abolish the control of the financial flows, strongly raise the rate of unemployment, provoke strikes, put in place an anti-unions legislation and cut the social expenses.

ANNAPOLIS, MD, March 5, 2013 — Legislation before the Maryland Senate would significantly increase recycling rates, while reducing energy use and emissions, noted Lynn Bragg, President of the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI), in testimony offered today before the Senate Education,

Mass Audubon supports legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions to lessen the impacts of climate change, and provides support for communities preparing to adapt to inevitable challenges.

The conference's report calls for legislation that would enact in statute the state's commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as a measure that would enhance «green» or environmentally sustainable practices at state agencies as well as climate neutral goals at the state and city university campuses.

The CCPA is a landmark piece of legislation that would put New York at the forefront of the fight against climate change by creating individualized plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and direct energy funding to communities like the 20th state senate district that are most impacted by climate change.

See http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fTEXT%2bIM-PRESS%2b20111205IPR33211%2b0%2bDOC%2bXML%2bV0%2f%2fEN&language=EN Following that vote, the man responsible for steering the legislation through Parliament, motorcycling Dutch MEP and IMCO Rapporteur Wim van de Camp, said that «These vehicles will increase urban mobility, use less space, waste less energy and have a reduced level of emissions» adding that «riding a motorbike has now become greener and safer.»

In celebration of Earth Day last week, state Sen. Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) touted the pro-environment legislation he has recently introduced that would reduce emissions and crack down on polluters.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

• City Council legislation, Intro 378, by Council Member Costa Constantinides (District 22, Queens), which mandates the City to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 % by 2050.

That's why I support passing common - sense legislation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions while protecting our economy.

Hedegaard, who will play a key role in the December climate talks here, appeared to back away from a recent call on Obama to pass legislation designed to reduce U.S. carbon emissions before those talks.

When it comes to tackling climate change, President Barack Obama once had grand ambitions, including forging a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and persuading Congress to enact legislation that would impose fees on U.S. carbon pollution.

After all, he reasons, if the Senate passes some type of domestic legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the debate about whether the United States should sign a treaty would then focus on the likely actions of other countries.

... With a successful deal here in Copenhagen, next year, the United States Congress, House, and Senate, will pass comprehensive energy - climate legislation that will reduce America's emissions.»

That legislation, which Klein calls «the granddaddy of all emissions trading markets,» created a cap - and - trade system for utilities to reduce the sulfur - based pollutants that cause acid rain.

The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

The report, which also warns of major wildlife extinctions and risks to crops from extreme heat, calls for reducing emissions 80 percent from current levels by 2050, which is consistent with the targets in major climate legislation moving through Congress.

Responding to legislation, executive action, and international agreements on climate change, DOT aims to secure economic and social benefits of transportation while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

People want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and clean up the environment, and tax people and force them to carpool, or ride a bus, and introduce more legislation at a lightning pace.

This is a key issue, and John McCain has put solutions over partisanship to pursue meaningful, market - driven cap and trade legislation aimed at drastically reducing harmful carbon emissions.»

The point of all this is that there's even more evidence now — as Climate Progress puts it, «pretty much every major poll in the past six months makes clear that the public supports climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean energy.

introduced legislation directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the environmental impact of black carbon and the most cost - effective ways to reduce its emissions to improve public health and reduce global warming.

I think that makes 13 states that have adopted legislation to reduce carbon emissions.

In light of the president's goal to reduce emissions 83 percent by 2050, the expected pathway set forth in this pending legislation would entail a 30 percent reduction below 2005 levels in 2025 and a 42 percent reduction below 2005 in 2030.

In a new filing to the IRS — adding to an active investigation prompted by a 2012 complaint that ALEC is operating as a corporate lobbying group while registered as a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit charity — the watchdog organizations detail for the first time how Exxon has used ALEC as a key asset in its explicit campaign to sow uncertainty about climate science, undermine international climate treaties and block legislation to reduce emissions.

Secondly it magically reverses the cooling trend moment clean air legislation to reduce SO2 emissions is passed, despite the fact that the SO2 emissions have fallen only slowly.

«We've worked hard to develop legislation that will dramatically reduce CO2 emissions while preserving energy - intensive U.S. manufacturing jobs and protecting consumers from substantially higher electric bills - and I believe that the agreement we've reached will do just that,» said co-author of the agreement Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania.

It is not clear from the letter whether these senators will refuse to support any legislation that does not require sanctions of any government that refuses to reduce its GHG emissions to levels agreed to by the US or only those governments that are already exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions.

Last week, 200 self - identified evangelical scientists from secular and religious universities sent a letter to the U.S. Congress calling for legislation to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment.

Rather, the next Democratic administration should pursue bipartisan legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

«This is a good and important piece of legislation,» Malloy said, adding that the state's legislature «took real steps toward reducing our overall emissions and creating good jobs in the green economy, all while decreasing costs for ratepayers.»

Since the introduction of the EU emissions legislation, all emission limits have been reduced by over 90 %.

Any near - term action may come in the form of energy legislation that, while helping to reduce U.S. emissions, will not achieve the levels of reduction envisioned under a cap - and - trade scenario.

In crafting them, Mr. Podesta, an ardent environmentalist and a seasoned political operative, sought to take substantive action to reduce emissions without turning to Congress, where climate legislation would most likely again be doomed.

• Cap and trade regimes keep high - cost emitters in the political game because they can reduce their emissions at low cost and thereby help minimize political opposition for climate change legislation.

Dr. Thorning: The ACCF's study (see www.accf.org) on the impact of the McCain / Lieberman legislation to reduce carbon emissions in the U.S. shows significant negative impacts on the U.S economy and on individual states.

Clive Palmer has already indicated that his Party is likely to oppose legislation to establish the Government's «Direct Action» scheme for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The United States pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 17 percent by 2020 compared with 2005, contingent on Congress's enacting climate change and energy legislation.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

That legacy doesn't include any legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and supposedly reverse global warming.

The different policies being introduced specifically to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions vary from international treaties, e.g., the Kyoto Protocol (2005), to national laws, e.g., the UK's Climate Change Act, 2008, and even regional legislation e.g., California (USA)'s Global Warming Solutions Act, 2006.

Many other US politicians have also recently said they will not support legislation to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions because they are not convinced that climate change happening or is human - caused.

The US official noted that overarching legislation is the best way to reduce emissions considering the wide range of interests involved, from agriculture to energy and the environment.

Yet when US federal climate change legislation was under consideration between 2009 and 2010, there was almost no public discussion about whether proposed US climate change legislation would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions to levels that represent the US fair share of safe global emissions.

Those opposing climate change legislation in the United States often have argued that it would be unfair to the United States if it was bound to reduce GHG emissions and China was not required to do the same.

While comprehensive climate and energy legislation has thus far failed to pass the United States Congress, there are a series of vital programs and strategies underway in the United States to reduce global warming emissions, such as:

This will be critical to reassure skeptics of domestic climate pollution legislation in the United States that China will keep any promises it makes to reduce its carbon emissions.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.