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UK faces green agenda backlash as energy prices rise — The British government faces a public backlash against its green energy agenda as consumers are unwilling to spend more on -LSB-...]

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In addition to mortgage insurance, it also issues mortgage - backed securities and pursues a variety of social policy agendas at the behest of Ottawa, such as disseminating information on regional housing markets, improving access to affordable housing and encouraging energy efficiency in new homes.

With President Trump's visit to Poland on his way to the July 2017 G20 summit, energy and infrastructure issues will likely be on the agenda as he meets with the leaders of the Three Seas Initiative, a collection of Central and Eastern European states working to increase connections between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas.

As a key organizer of the World Energy Cities Partnership meetings and a speaker for the Cities and Innovation panel, she will be juggling a busy agenda.

Apart from EV and new energy, NIO Capital is looking for opportunities in self - driving technology - another part of China's national agenda as the country pushes into artificial intelligence in a bid to rival U.S. market leaders such as Google and Microsoft.

As William Appleman Williams deliberately sought to reshape and radicalize U.S. foreign policy through a revisionist (and essentially Marxist) reading of the history of America's encounter with the world, so Jay Dolan has, with energy and imagination, sought to buttress the «progressive» agenda in contemporary American Catholicism and the cause of an «independent American Catholic Church» by a radical retelling of the story.

Democrats supporting Mayer see the race as the next chapter in a narrative in which liberals mobilize an unprecedented amount of energy and involvement driven by a desire to combat President Donald Trump's agenda.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said he has no plans to become Trump's Energy Secretary — an idea that was floated as a way to let the state's Republican governor name a successor and advance the president's stalled agenda in Congress.

The goal, unveiled on Tuesday as part of the governor's 2018 State of the State agenda, is intended to result in enough emission - free renewable energy to power 400,000 residences.

If the Obama campaign can continue to promote a comprehensive energy agenda and follow through with the second stimulus relief package, I think Dems will be seen as the ones who are taking the side of «regular people».

As part of Governor Cuomo's 2015 - 16 Opportunity Agenda, the Nonprofit Infrastructure Capital Investment Program provides funding critical for the financing of construction projects that include renovation or expansion of program space, accessibility renovations, energy efficiency modifications, and other technology projects.

This was a hint at individuals such as George Osborne at the top of the coalition obstructing the energy agenda, indicating a future fight, if necessary, with his right - wing colleagues for the green economy.

, NYSERDA collected $ 170.5 million from RGGI — which serves, in effect, as a major source of discretionary funding for a range of projects promoted as part of the governor's «clean energy» political agenda.

In fiscal 2016, NYSERDA collected $ 170.5 million from RGGI — which serves, in effect, as a major source of discretionary funding for a range of projects promoted as part of the governor's «clean energy» political agenda.

«I proudly served as the vice chair for over 15 years, but withdrew my name from consideration to devote my energy towards achieving my legislative agenda for my district and the people of New York State,» Klein said in an emailed statement.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- As President Obama tries pressing ahead with his domestic agenda focused on health care and energy reform, several potential investigations threaten to steal the focus in Washington.

Now that Horizon 2020 is under way, energy policy — one of Buzek's pet subjects — will be higher on ITRE's agenda, says Jerzy Langer, a Polish physicist who served as deputy science minister in 2005.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

* Do not focus on global warming as a primary vehicle for selling the energy agenda, since voters do not see it as an immediate threat to the United States or to themselves.

Even though Majumdar will be overseeing a much bigger agenda as energy under secretary, he will need to spend much of his time guiding ARPA - E, a 2 - year - old agency with a strong reputation that nonetheless faces tough times.

With less than two months to go before the Rio +20 U.N. conference in Brazil, which many hope will breathe new life into the sustainable development agenda, the two - day Clean Energy Ministerial meeting is being hailed as a major opportunity to set the stage with a range of bilateral initiatives expected to be announced on projects across the renewable energy speEnergy Ministerial meeting is being hailed as a major opportunity to set the stage with a range of bilateral initiatives expected to be announced on projects across the renewable energy speenergy spectrum.

The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

ALEC is leading the nationally - coordinated attack on state renewable portfolio standards as part of an ambitious dirty energy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal inteenergy agenda for the members of its anti-environmental task force, like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal inteEnergy, Duke Energy and other major oil, gas and coal inteEnergy and other major oil, gas and coal interests.

That agenda was acceptable for a few weeks, but as time went on, and I saw what needed to be done, I realized that the likelihood of me being able to devote this amount of time and energy again probably was not realistic.

As my Fordham colleague Chester Finn recently observed, longstanding bipartisan support for the education reform agenda has collapsed: «As Democrats pander to teachers» unions and minority grievances and Republicans focus on social issues and culture wars, little energy remains for school reform.»

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

Advocates and policymakers should invest energy and resources to develop bold federal policies to combat the current administration's agenda and to serve as a road map once the political powers in Washington change.

There are a number of factors that must be considered when crafting an appropriate legislation, such as the size of energy subsidies, and because of this, it is difficult to move the policy agenda forward.

As I wrote yesterday, while the United States this year rotated into its two - year stint leading the eight - nation Arctic Council, this meeting is an unrelated informal session, organized by the State Department and other agencies around a distinctly uncontroversial agenda, ranging from basic science to energy - efficient cold - weather design tips.

One is better integrating the ministers» work with the research - focused agenda of the Mission Innovation initiative, as well as with Bill Gates's private investment pool aimed at long - odds energy breakthroughs.

[UPDATED, 11 p.m.] Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has settled on China as an important stop on her first trip abroad in her new job and aides told me that climate and energy will be high on the agenda.

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.

With 65 questions on the department's research agenda, nuclear program, and national labs, it sheds a disturbing light on the direction in which Trump plans on taking America's energy policy, as Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

However, there is no need for us to understand it as a problem to see the backwards thinking that has produced the climate and energy policies that now put expensive «negawatts» further up the political agenda than cheaper megawatts.

That came along decades ago with the UN's Agenda 21, and they have been pushing industrial wind as their supposedly «sustainable» energy option ever since.

I have been equally clear that a major part of my agenda in RVA relates to climate and renewable energy — as you know, I've introduced numerous bills on renewable energy tax credits, community solar, energy efficiency, etc....

That's right, the very first priority after the triumphant 2014 Elections for the Republicans is energy, its Big Oil's agenda, a corporate pipeline project... and now oil exports and all of big oil's wish list are being tacked onto this bill as amendments.

This stark fact will top the agenda in Manila as the 2015 Asia Clean Energy Forum gets underway today.

However, as an expert in off - grid energy access in Africa, Ishofsky adds an alternate viewpoint to the debate surrounding energy in the post-2015 agenda based on the experience of an individual who has established a career working in energy access.

Across the Americas, Europe and Asia, senior executives gather to listen to expert speakers and network with their peers in electric power industry as they help set the agenda for energy policy and sustainability.

Cities are increasingly leveraging their status as large customers to advance clean energy agendas, with the number of cities establishing carbon neutrality or renewable energy targets expanding rapidly in recent years.

If the CAGW alarmists are genuinely concerned about CAGW (as opposed to using it to push other ideological agendas), they need to enthusiastically advocate removing the barriers to cost - competitive, low - emissions energy.

He promised that Canada was «back» on the International stage as a major contributor to global action on climate change, he promised to make real reconciliation with Indigenous peoples a pillar of his agenda, and he promised to overhaul the shattered National Energy Board review process for every single pipeline project.

«Winding back the climate agenda means that the U.S. will be left behind in the clean energy transition as other global players, such as in Europe and China, demonstrate greater commitment to deploying low carbon and job - creating solutions to climate change,» said Peter Kiernan, of the Economist Intelligence Unit.

With over 70 percent of the British public voicing support for clean energy, making this one of the few areas where the country is united, why shouldn't the government present its strategy as the exciting, transformational and yes, hope - filled agenda that it is?

As I have most recently argued in Schwartzman (2016), the Military Industrial (Fossil Fuel Nuclear State Terror and Surveillance) Complex («MIC») is the main obstacle to making this rapid shift to 100 % renewable energy possible, with ongoing perpetual wars driven by its Imperial Agenda.

Efforts to modernize the country's antiquated utilities — as must happen if there is to be any chance of implementing Modi's ambitious energy agenda — seem no closer to success than they did when he took office.

These impacts, unfortunately, have been subordinated to political agendas even as the program's original intent has been overtaken by a new era of U.S. energy abundance.

They're the adults now who don't have any particular interest in science but «remember the science from school» and so unlikely to question whatever the AGW green agenda pushes, and even those in actual science fields where real knowledge of gas properties isn't relelevant, but what I find astonishing though, is how many in actual science fields who come together to discuss AGW continue to not question something as basic as the difference between heat and light claims in the AGW energy budget which is well known still in the real science world.

Above all, these supposed modeling experts and climate scientists need to terminate their biases and their evangelism of political agendas that seek to slash fossil fuel use, «transform» our energy and economic systems, reduce our standards of living, and «permit» African and other impoverished nations to enter the modern era only in a «sustainable manner,» as callous elitists often insist.