Sentences with phrase «energy policies at»

While this system has been in place for some time now, 2017 has seen national security used as a pretense for renewed political attacks on new wind power projects and clean energy policies at the local and state level.

Meanwhile, it's not just that Donald Trump's victory has upended the move towards global climate action — and will likely set the stage for reversal of Obama climate and energy policies at home as well.

She has spent the last 14 years working to advance clean energy policies at the state and federal levels.

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins began his efforts to change energy policies at protests against the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire in 1977.

The clashes over energy policies at PMQs were reviewed by BBC deputy political editor James Landale with Conservative MP Alan Duncan, Labour MP Vernon Coaker and Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil.

That means Trump could find himself staring down the same dilemma in 2020 that Obama faced in 2016: He'll be trying to lock in his touchstone energy policies at the end of a four - year term, with a political rival eager to overturn them.

Nevertheless, Vincent DeVito, the counselor for energy policy at the Department of the Interior, has contended that «American energy production can be competitive while remaining safe and environmentally sound.»

Jason Bordoff is a professor and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University's School of International Affairs.

Andrew Leach, professor of energy policy at the University of Alberta

«Over a decade ago, building new plants in New York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.»

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

WNYC talked to task force member Ashok Gupta, who is also director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, about the proposals and their possible impact.

Before science reporter Scott Waldman joined ClimateWire in 2016, he covered state energy policy at Politico New York and has worked for the Albany Times Union, Erie Times - News and The Baltimore Sun.

«We are increasing the world's GDP: we are buying more oil and spending more on pollution - related health care,» jokes Ildo Sauer, who studies energy policy at the University of São Paulo and is a former director of the state oil giant Petrobras.

Now, dividing my time as always, I have to head to Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival festival, where I'll be speaking about climate and energy policy at 12:30 and then performing with my Breakneck Ridge Revue ensemble on the Mystic Whaler at 2:30.

Jason Bordoff, the founding founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, sent this:

During the election campaign in November, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk spruiked her clean energy policy at the under - construction Clare Valley Solar Farm in north Queensland — a project that will employ up to 350 people during construction, but offer only five to 10 jobs once operational.

Dr. Helm, a professor of energy policy at Oxford and an economic adviser to Britain's secretary of state for energy and climate change, recently discussed what he views as America's lucky break with natural gas and what we can learn from Europe's energy policy mistakes.

Professor Boqiang Lin from the Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University said:

Such industries could buckle under the inflated costs of electricity, which could end up more expensive than the electricity bought from the joint Nordic «pool», says Stephen Thomas, professor of energy policy at the University of Greenwich.

As Dr. Alice Bows - Larkin, Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy at The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, stated, «2 Degrees represents the threshold between dangerous and extremely dangerous climate change.»

Nick Molho, Head of Energy Policy at WWF - UK says, «This report shows that turning the world's energy supplies green is not only possible, but imperative.Renewable energy and better grid interconnection with Europe has the potential to meet all of our energy needs in a very sustainable way.

IEA Executive Director receives Carnot Prize from the University of Pennsylvania The Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania awarded its annual Carnot Prize to Dr Fatih Birol for his distinguished contributions to energy policy 17 November 2016

Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Fisher Fine Arts Building Room 401 220 S. 34th St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 p. 215.573.4293 • f. 215.573.1650

As head of energy policy at Friends of the Earth in London, she later managed a comprehensive research project with major universities to support the establishment of the UK Climate Change Act.

Its turnaround has been «quite remarkable,» said Fergus Green, an analyst of China's energy policy at the London School of Economics.

Catherine Mitchell (United Kingdom)- Professor of Energy Policy at Exeter University.

Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia, advised President Obama on energy and climate change.

By Matthew Stepp, Clean Energy Policy Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and Jesse Jenkins, Director of Climate and Energy Policy at the Breakthrough Institute

Lisa Sadownik, Section Head of Clean Energy Policy at Alberta Environment, stressed the province's focus on «cumulative effects management.»

For instance, the UK Conservative leader David Cameron recently launched his party's energy policy at a press event held on the rooftop of Greenpeace's London HQ (watch it here).

Mark has also taught energy policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

James Taylor is vice president for external relations and senior fellow for environment and energy policy at the Heartland Institute, an organization that has received funding from ExxonMobil and the Charles Koch Foundation and is perhaps best known for running a billboard campaign associating acceptance of climate science with «murderers, tyrants, and madmen» like the Unabomber and Charles Manson.

«I think once it's dead, it's much harder to shock it back into life,» said Nathanael Greene, director of renewable energy policy at the National Resources Defense Council.

«People don't usually think of the costs of taking a hot shower, but options already exist to save on energy and water,» said Lane Burt, Manager of Building Energy Policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Not exact matches

Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

«OPEC's current strategy hinges heavily on the prospects of future demand growth,» Bassam Fattouh and Andreas Economou at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies wrote in a new paper on OPEC's policy and choices.

«To ignore market trends by impeding progress toward a cleaner energy future, on the basis of ignorance or ideology, makes no sense,» Nathanael Greene, director of renewable policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.

Ken Bone (C), a power plant employee from Belleville, Illinois, waits in the audience to ask a question about energy policy and jobs during the presidential debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016.

«The theory is that if new industries that are not competitive are subsidized they will eventually mature and be able to function on their own,» said University of Guelph economist Glenn Fox at a conference last June, citing studies suggesting clean energy policies in Denmark, Germany and Spain are a drag on economic growth.

He is a Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and the author of the forthcoming book «Missing OPEC: The History and Future of Boom - Bust Oil Prices,» from Columbia University Press, 2016.

Lisa Jackson, Apple's VP of environment, policy and social initiatives, said on stage at an Apple press event that the company has reached the 100 % renewable energy goal in 23 countries.

«Support investment in sustainable energy with tax - policy that is at least equal to the benefits given to fossil fuels.»

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.

Dan Woynillowicz is Policy Director and Sarah Petrevan is Ontario Senior Policy Advisor at Clean Energy Canada, a program of the Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.

But parts of American energy security policies are at odds with influential elements in President Obama's Democratic Party, who want to curtail what they perceive to be Canada's «dirty crude» from the oilsands — witness the continuing uncertainty over the future of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

«Everything he said was already known to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] and published,» Jeffrey Lewis, a nuclear - policy expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, tweeted.

NV Energy and its upcoming policy change was the «gorilla in the room» at the Clean Energy Summit, Craven said, and during his keynote address, Obama seemed to be speaking between the lines.

We also modelled a number of existing and proposed federal and provincial policies aimed at helping Canadians save energy.

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