Sentences with phrase «emissions trading bill»

The announcement of the new emissions trading bill was seen by conservation groups as a sign that the Bush administration's past policy toward global warming will be challenged, even under the Republican controlled Congress.

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The bill aims to ameliorate these effects by allowing emitting plants to continue for a while by buying permits or allowances from other producers whose emissions are below their allowances — hence «cap and trade.»

A climate change bill is due shortly which will set out ministers» plans to cut emissions at home in the UK, and changes to the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) are also planned, including its expansion into the emissions - heavy aviation industry.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

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He voted in favor of the stimulus but against a «cap and trade» bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The groups support using 5 percent of valuable greenhouse gas emission allowances under the bill's cap - and - trade system to prevent tropical deforestation and reduce international forest emissions.

Over the summer President Obama sketched a concept for a cap - and - trade bill that would legislate significant cuts in the United States» carbon emissions, but widespread skepticism — along with a weak economy — forced Senate majority leader Harry Reid to concede last July that such a bill would not pass.

Close examination of the Galileo Movement's arguments shows that the effort is recycling many of the same straw man arguments and distortions about the science that other groups have previously employed to scuttle a cap - and - trade bill in the U.S. Congress last year, a stricter emissions trading scheme in New Zealand three years ago and other regional and national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The bill that died in committee earlier this year, S.B. 1574, would have authorized a cap - and - trade program, with its revenues going toward activities that reduce emissions, explicitly including road improvements.

While a bill to actually implement a cap - and - trade system eluded state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended in March, they did direct the state Department of Environmental Quality to study «a market - based approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.»

It gained urgency after the failure of the 2009 legislation known as the Waxman - Markey bill, which was aimed at setting up an emissions trading system in the United States.

Soon after Barack Obama was elected president, congressional climate change advocates set their sights on passing a cap - and - trade bill in time for him to bring a firm U.S.commitment on emissions reductions to this week's climate meeting in Copenhagen.

Several bills pending in Congress would set a so - called cap - and - trade policy under which an overall limit on pollution would be set — and companies with low output could sell their allowances to those that fail to cut emissions as long as the total stays within the total pollution cap.

More importantly, the Climate Security Act of 2007 (Lieberman / Warner bill) is currently in mark - up and exempts co-ops from the cap - and - trade decreasing carbon allocations by setting their emissions at 2006 levels until 2035 and then allowing them to sell or trade their emission credits.

The end came with the failure of a seven - year effort in the Senate to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade system for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

His critics show few signs of ever accommodating the ideas he now presses, which include a prompt moratorium on new coal - burning power plants until they can capture and store carbon dioxide and a rising tax on fuels contributing greenhouse - gas emissions, with the revenue passed back directly to citizens, avoiding the complexities of «cap and trade» bills.

[Andy Revkin — Mr. Gore is sticking with his preference for taxing sources of emissions and limiting costs for citizens that bears no resemblance to «cap and trade» bills like those that have faltered in Congress of late and shares some of the architecture, if not details, of the «cap and dividend» approach of Peter Barnes and a similar proposal from James Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has moved far into the policy realm lately.]

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With other approaches to an energy and climate bill blocked — including carbon taxes or a broader cap - and - trade mechanism for controlling emissions — the only viable alternative appears to be to limit a cap to utilities, the one sector that's already familiar with smokestack rules and markets in emissions credits.

-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.

He alluded to last year's successful passage of a climate and energy bill in the House, but made no mention of the current proposal by his Democratic allies in the Senate for legislation including a cap and trading mechanism for emissions.

The bill would set up a cap - and - trade system to achieve the emissions targets, allowing industry and other entities to buy and sell permits within an overall emissions ceiling.

Ramesh also said India would not accept a provision in a U.S. Congress bill which would impose trade penalties on countries who fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The push for a cap - and - trade system has fresh momentum in neighboring Oregon, where the state Department of Environmental Quality released a study last week asserting that the program could lower emissions without raising consumers» electric bills.

Barton strongly apposes Congressional efforts to cut carbon emissions, telling NPR last week, «There will be no cap - and - trade bill... It's not just endangered, it's extinct.»

Probably the biggest grievance environmental justice advocates had with AB 398, according to Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, is a specific provision that prohibits California's Air Resources Board and local air districts from directly regulating carbon emissions by sources that are also subject to the state's cap - and - trade program.

Carbon Washington believes the risk of job leakage needs to be mitigated in a carbon tax bill, but we encourage the Legislature to focus on special handling only for businesses that are truly emission intensive and trade exposed.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

Here are links to our Coaltiion's submissions to the New Zealand Parliament Select Committee considering the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading Scheme) Amendment Bill:

Based on a year - long intensive study, the Governor of Tokyo submitted a bill, which was passed by Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, introducing mandatory targets for GHG reductions for large - scale emitters as part of an emissions trading program.

The decision breaks the deadlock over the Government's 11 bills introducing an emissions trading scheme (ETS), which were defeated in Parliament last Thursday and are not due to be reintroduced until November.

The Australian Parliament's upper - house Senate has begun debating the Rudd Labor government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009, also known as the emissions trading scheme.

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If it can make the switch, the result is: half the bill goes on the Visa card, and the other half is met with foreign credits the Government obtained through the Emissions Trading Scheme that cost emitters a few tens of millions.

Cap - and - trade is the cornerstone of Assembly Bill 32 (AB32), California's historic climate change law that mandates a reduction in carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Well that's exactly what happened a week ago Friday when Congress voted on and passed the infamous HR 2454 Cap and Trade / Carbon Emissions Bill.

But Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, who led the fight in the House to pass cap - and - trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions — only to see that bill die in the Senate — declared the EPA's proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants «a breakthrough.»

An update on general rate case filings, plus a solar bill stalled in South Carolina, an emissions trading proposal in Virginia, and EV legislation in Illinois.

95) Australia has stated it wants to slash greenhouse emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020, but the pledges were so unpopular that the country's Senate has voted against the carbon trading Bill, and the Opposition's Party leader has now been ousted by a climate change sceptic.

The bill is designed to reduce emissions by allowing the trading of emissions allowances on the open market, supported by a government inventory of emissions and emission reductions for individual companies and utilities.

WASHINGTON, DC, January 8, 2003 (ENS)- A bipartisan bill introduced in a U.S. Senate hearing today would attempt to curb global warming by establishing a market based trading system in greenhouse gas emissions.

Those in favor of sweeping new regulations on our economy to address the issue of global warming are demanding that Congress quickly pass a «cap - and - trade» bill on greenhouse gas emissions or face a battery of new mandates to be developed and imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

He hopes to craft a bill that will revive stalled efforts to implement a cap - and - trade carbon tax and reduce emissions from so - called greenhouse gases.

«This bill uses the best approach we know - a market based trading system - to reduce emissions and give companies maximum flexibility in meeting requirements.

One option, which Pope brought to Capitol Hill in September 2009, was to break the bill into three pieces, with emissions - trading applying only to utilities — an idea with some public support.

Bills to impose a carbon tax or create a cap - and - trade system are dead for now, although Boxer is nonetheless touting legislation to set a price on carbon emissions.

Sen. John McCain, the presidential nominee last year, is one of the original architects of a Congressional cap - and - trade bill, though he forcefully opposes the Obama administration's plan to auction off emissions allowances to polluters (Mr. McCain would prefer to give the initial allowances away free).

This bill contains a cap - and - trade program on greenhouse gas emissions by utilities and large industrial emitters, a carbon fee on transportation fuels, and a modest allocation of funds to energy efficiency.

Of the various ways the bill looks to change the nature of how to deal with carbon emissions, cap - and - trade will form the basic structure if the landmark legislation is passed.