Sentences with phrase «end subsidies»

Introduces an ambitious timeline and strategy to end all subsidies to fossil fuel companies and invests in a just transition to a clean energy economy for affected workers and communities.

In recent weeks campaigning groups have collected over 1 million signatures demanding that leaders act now to end subsidies and start to invest in clean energy solutions.

(08/27/2008) The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K. - based think tank.

Of course an obvious first step would be to end subsidies for fossil fuel consumption, but I think that would require us to discuss politics...

Here in Malawi, bank officials say they generally support Malawi's policy, though they criticize the government for not having a strategy to eventually end the subsidies, question whether its 2007 corn production estimates are inflated and say there is still a lot of room for improvement in how the subsidy is carried out.

This week's senate vote to end subsidies for ethanol has left campaigners worried the renewables sector is next, that tax credits and deductions will be scrapped in favour of the Republican austerity measure to reduce the deficit.

If the Obama administration is serious about its pledge to end subsidies to fossil fuels, it would use its power as the biggest World Bank funder to stop this loan.»

Reform legislation in the U.S. by environmental - leaning Democrats — New Mexico's Tom Udall and Vermont's Peter Welch — is now gathering support in both houses of Congress, aided by an environmental lobby determined to end subsidies to ethanol as well as its mandated use.

Only two of these twenty - two measures, with a value of EUR 1.4 billion in 2016, will be phased out in 2018 as part of the existing EU - wide commitment to end subsidies to hard coal — the rest will remain in place.

It is long past time for governments in general and the US Government in particular to end its subsidies for unreliable energy and let the markets themselves decide where to allocate energy resources rather than governments.

David White, energy consultant to governments in Europe and in the U.S.A., states that «it is imperative that the Auditor General's Office investigate this wasteful investment of public funds (wind - farms) and that Ontario's Legislature place an immediate moratorium on the building of new wind turbine facilities in the province as well as end subsidies and tax incentives paid to the wind industry.»

It would end subsidies, overt and hidden, that favor status - quo fuels and retard the adoption of replacements.

So I say, end subsidies and tax»em.

The fallout continues from President Donald Trump's decision to end subsidies to health insurance companies to help lower - income Americans pay for their health insurance.

It is time to end these subsidies.»

Time for state and federal government to end subsidies and tax breaks for polluters.

Trump has the power to end the subsidies, known as cost - sharing reductions, and he's said he'll withhold the payments as a way to pressure the Senate to find a way to repeal and replace the ACA.

«End subsidies.

Accelerate investment in renewables and end subsidies for any fuel that releases carbon into the air as breathe.

Zemsky says it's misguided to end the subsidies.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is going to court to fight President Donald Trump's decision to end subsidies for low - income Americans who get their health care through the Affordable Care Act health exchanges.

Trump has the power to end the subsidies, known as cost - sharing reductions, and he's said he'll withhold the payments as a way to pressure the U.S. Senate to find a way to repeal and replace the ACA.

They should instead think big: Press the Americans to end subsidies for their farmers and reach a deal beneficial to the taxpayers and consumers in both countries.

Then, when Trump ended subsidies to Obamacare insurers in October, health insurers took another hit, with Centene down 6 percent, Molina Healthcare down 4 percent and Anthem down 3 percent.

In Bahrain, when a budget crisis ended its subsidy program, live imports ended and were replaced by imports of Australian meat.

Schneiderman said ending the subsidies is an attempt by Trump to «blow up» the nation's health care system.

ABUJA — The Federal Government, weekend, hiked the price of Household Kerosene (HHK) to N83 per litre from N50 per litre, thereby, officially ending subsidy on the product.

Schneiderman said ending the subsidies would have a devastating effect on New York's health care system that goes far beyond those now receiving the benefits.

«I'm deeply disappointed that this plan that we believe fundamentally was better for the taxpayers — ended the subsidies of large amounts of luxury housing by the taxpayers, achieved more affordable housing, cut the city's subsidies, just look at the benefits of this plan,» Mr. de Blasio said today at a Brooklyn press conference.

Trump is ending the subsidy, which is meant to help low - income people purchase insurance in an ACA marketplace.

The recent agreement with Flight Level Dutchess to handle line services operations has enabled the County to end its subsidy of general operating costs at the County Airport.

In «Nigerian Economy in 2016: Withdrawal Symptoms» (January 27, 2016), I compared Nigeria to an addict finding it difficult to wean itself of the drug of oil and warned that «in 2016 we will be forced to begin reconciling ourselves to the real exchange rate of the Naira» and «it is wise to formally and publicly end the subsidy regime and bring certainty and investments into the downstream petroleum sector.»

Schneiderman says ending the subsidies is an attempt by President Trump to «blow up» the nation's health care system.

Princeton University, which manages the nuclear fusion lab under a contract with DOE, has agreed to return $ 1 million to the department and has ended the subsidies.

After a leaked report revealed the DfE knew small schools needed extra funds to provide free meals — yet still ended their subsidy — Barbara Taylor issues a fair - funding challenge to government

A commission chaired by the City of Chicago's Comptroller issued a report earlier this week which said that Chicago can no longer afford its subsidies for government worker retiree health care, which currently cost the city $ 109 million annually but would grow to nearly $ 500 million in a decade thanks to projected increases in the number of retirees and in health care costs.The commission offered Mayor Rahm Emanuel a series of suggestions on how to change the program to save money, including having workers pay a greater percentage of their own health care premiums in retirement, but it also concluded that the city might want to simply end the subsidy program, a move which almost certainly would be challenged in court.

McCain says he is for ending the subsidies to the oil and gas industries.

(This includes ending subsidies for the ethanol program.)

These include ending subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, boosting energy efficiency, advancing renewable sources like wind and solar power and moving away from the idea that «drill baby, drill» is a solution.

The level of denial exhibited in this report is extremely damaging to the efforts of fossil fuel subsidy reform, especially since the German government had been so vocal in advocating for effective carbon pricing and ending subsidies.

They say the technological fixes also distract from more challenging social reforms like slowing the rate of population growth, shifting away from crops like corn ethanol that don't put food on the table, or ending subsidies for livestock production, which currently eats up an appalling 75 percent of the world's agricultural land.

Demilitarizing the police and reinvigorating public education by ending subsidies for private schools would also be a nice start.

On the morning of 12 December 2017, an artistic mobilization will take place in Paris to send the message that Climate Finance means ending subsidies and investments for fossil fuels.

have also introduced S. 530, which would limit the VEETC to «advanced biofuels,» thus ending the subsidy for conventional corn ethanol.

Ending these subsidies is not going to be easy, of course, but statements like this combined with a series of persistant ads in target markets indicate that it may be a key component of Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.

If you're itching to do some petition signing right now: End Fossil Fuel Subsidies, and check out how your representative (in the US) stands on ending subsidies: End Fossil Fuel Subsidies Scorecard.

Estimates suggest that, globally, this approach to funding could amount to $ 1.9 trillion from ending fossil fuel subsidies, $ 485 billion annually from eliminating agricultural subsidies, and $ 27 billion from ending subsidies for marine trawling.

I agree it's not sustainable, and I don't support additional subsidies (if ending the subsidies ends corn ethanol, then so be it).

Just ending the subsidies would fix everyhting except ending new coal build w / o CCS.

Ending the subsidies would also slash the number of premature deaths from outdoor air pollution by 50 % — about 1.6 million lives a year.