Sentences with phrase «energy policy proposal»

When compared to alternatives such as carbon pricing, technology investment fares as the most popular energy policy proposal.

In this election year, any energy policy proposal that rejects hydraulic fracturing rejects the American energy revolution.»

All the major Democratic candidates have made major energy policy proposals with substantive ideas on carbon reduction and renewables.

At CDA, Dayaratna instituted the Heritage Energy Model, derived from the Energy Information Administration's National Energy Modeling System, to quantify and help policymakers understand the long - term economic effects of energy policy proposals.

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The campaign plan expected «proposals on trade, regulatory and energy policy would raise economic output and revenues» to offset most of the remaining shortfall, as cited by the Tax Policy Center anapolicy would raise economic output and revenues» to offset most of the remaining shortfall, as cited by the Tax Policy Center anaPolicy Center analysis.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Last year, Michal C. Moore — an energy economist at the School of Public Policy — published «A Proposal to Create a Pan-Canadian Energy Information Organization.&energy economist at the School of Public Policy — published «A Proposal to Create a Pan-Canadian Energy Information Organization.&Energy Information Organization.»

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to today's federal carbon pricing discussion paper: «This proposal is a big step forward on a key climate commitment, and the approach Ottawa has chosen is a promising one.

Like her husband before her, Clinton is trying to forge a new consensus and is unashamed to pile up policy proposals: on family leave, child care, college affordability, incentives to employers for higher wages, immigration reform, clean energy and limits on the power of wealthy campaign donors.

The European Parliament's ENVI Committee has this week voted through a proposal for EU renewable energy policy to be brought in line with the waste hierarchy.

The proposal came during the same hour that activist and actress Cynthia Nixon was joining environmental protesters — critical of Cuomo policies on fossil fuel and renewable energy as inadequate — outside the Capitol.

Today's RGGI proposal, working in concert with the Governor's REV policy and Clean Energy Standard, sends the message to the nation that climate change is real and the future is clean and renewable energy.&Energy Standard, sends the message to the nation that climate change is real and the future is clean and renewable energy.&energy.»

Mr. DiNapoli also announced the pension fund had withdrawn shareholder proposals at three energy companies due to their climate - change disclosure policies.

Diane felt Ed Milliband was trying to move to the left and his lower tuition fees policy was a positive move, as was his proposal for a freeze on energy prices.

But while Cuomo's budget proposal included the most aggressive set of climate policies he has introduced during his tenure as governor, some key details about two particularly significant climate and energy initiatives remained vague.

The poll comes after a frenetic first five weeks of campaigning, as Ms. Nixon has attacked the governor in sharp and personal terms while rolling out some flashy progressive policy proposals, including calling for the legalization of recreational marijuana in New York, and for the state to use 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050.

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.

The National Commission on Energy Policy's report presents an overview of major issues — such as allowance allocations, offsets, trade and costs — that will be followed in the coming weeks by the group's detailed recommendations and proposals.

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

But he cautioned that governments need concrete policy proposals every bit as much as they need probing analyses, and that moving conversations about energy subsidies rhetoric to action is a heavy lift in today's highly charged political arenas.

Eickhout says the commission's proposals reflect deep divisions among the European Union's 28 member states on energy policy.

There is almost too much here to take in: tax incentives, export controls, forestry policy, waste reduction and recycling proposals, CO2 taxes, electrical co-generation, virgin materials fees... There is even a discussion of energy - saving light bulbs and how to market them more efficiently.

But more controversial proposals — to bounce solar energy back out into space, for instance — split the conference, with policy experts warning climate scientists that there would be a public backlash.

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Approximately 1/3 of the Fund invested in Materials, Industrials and Energy stocks, and we believe these stocks could benefit directly from two of the most important policy proposals suggested by the Trump administration:

I Guess the Bush Administration Doesn't Think Highly of Pickens» or Gore's Proposals The fact that this proposal is announced just days after Al Gore calls for all U.S. electricity be generated renewably within 10 years, and two weeks after T. Boone Pickens unveiled his plan to radically increase U.S. wind power and use natural gas to offset petroleum in transportation, shows how mired in business - as - usual thinking regarding energy and environmental policy the current administration is.

The [Danish] government also invited the parties in parliament to negotiations on the proposal to shape energy policy to 2020.»

Nisbet concludes by referring readers to an earlier post in which he laid out a proposal for «a post-partisan plan for communicating climate change» (clearly echoing the recent call for a post-partisan approach to climate and energy policy).

I want to hear what your proposals are for policies aimed at the goal on those green ribbons — stopping energy poverty now.

A new paper in Climate Policy, «Energy research within the UNFCCC: A proposal to guard against ongoing climate - deadlock,» cites the need and proposes that research commitments be included in national pledges under the climate treaty.

[37] The Department of Energy, for example, has used NEMS to evaluate some policy proposals.

Readers who actually want a thorough and careful account of the pros and cons of I - 732 from a policy point of view should read the three detailed articles by the Sightline Institute here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/01/pros-cons-carbonwa-carbon-tax-swap-ballot-initiative-732/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/02/does-initiative-732-carbon-tax-have-a-budget-hole/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/03/weighing-critiques-of-carbonwa-i-732/ Readers who are interested in the messy political conflict over the initiative might start with a couple of Patrick Mazza's articles: http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/11/can-wa-state-climate-policy-train-wreck.html http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/12/wa-climate-initiative-conflict-on-road.html If you want to know why the Alliance's proposal won't do much for low - income families facing higher energy costs as a result of a carbon fee (though it would produce a lot of union trade jobs by funding State infrastructure spending) start here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/16/green-stamps-a-climate-equity-proposal-for-the-pacific-northwest/

But the substantial support that Murkowski's proposal attracted highlights the political obstacles looming in front of any policy that aims to seriously advance alternatives to the carbon - intensive fossil fuels that now dominate the United States» energy mix.

These principles were adopted by American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), BCL, Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP), Corporate Climate Alliance (CCA), and Partnership for Responsible Growth (PRG) as a values - based way to understand key issues of carbon pricing, as well as a starting point for comparing specific policy propPolicy (BICEP), Corporate Climate Alliance (CCA), and Partnership for Responsible Growth (PRG) as a values - based way to understand key issues of carbon pricing, as well as a starting point for comparing specific policy proppolicy proposals:

A new role - playing exercise from Climate Interactive where participants act as energy policy consultants and come up with proposals for pathways to an equitable low - carbon future.

Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to

• We support the provision in H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act passed by the House in June 2009, for a 2 - year interagency planning process, led by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, to develop a proposal for the structure and functions of a National Climate Service.

The European Parliament and Energy Ministers are concurrently finalising their respective positions on the «Clean Energy for all Europeans» package of eight legislative proposals that will guide energy policy up to 2030, seeking to cut emissions, save energy and boost renewEnergy Ministers are concurrently finalising their respective positions on the «Clean Energy for all Europeans» package of eight legislative proposals that will guide energy policy up to 2030, seeking to cut emissions, save energy and boost renewEnergy for all Europeans» package of eight legislative proposals that will guide energy policy up to 2030, seeking to cut emissions, save energy and boost renewenergy policy up to 2030, seeking to cut emissions, save energy and boost renewenergy and boost renewables.

In COP22 press conferences, panel discussions, and multiple interviews, delegates familiar with Trump's policy proposals stress that the age of fossil fuels — built on antiquated 19th - century energy technologies such as coal — is all but over.

At the start of the year, the EC made proposals for a new EU - wide energy policy, which includes a binding target of 10 % of biofuels in petrol and diesel in all member states.

Considered a top state for solar energy potential — and home to a robust rooftop solar sector — Arizona's current net metering policy debates started in 2013, when utility Arizona Public Service sparked controversy with a fee proposal for rooftop solar customers that regulators ultimately scaled back to a $ 5 grid access charge.

The European Commission's legislative proposals included in the «Clean Energy for All Europeans» package published on 30 November 2016 are as a whole not consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement to keep temperature rise well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C, which require the immediate overhaul of EU climate and energy polEnergy for All Europeans» package published on 30 November 2016 are as a whole not consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement to keep temperature rise well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 °C, which require the immediate overhaul of EU climate and energy polenergy policies.

And Joe Romm can shape much of what educated American liberals, environmentalists and Democrats think about any given energy and climate news event, scientific article, book, or policy proposal.

Efforts to use climate science to threaten an apocalyptic future should we fail to embrace green proposals, and to characterize present - day natural disasters as terrifying previews of an impending day of reckoning, have only served to undermine the credibility of both climate science and progressive energy policy.

At the time of survey, the Department of Energy's proposal was pending before federal regulators, but it received the least support of any policy option offered to deal with the retirement of large, inflexible generators.

The European Council's proposals on the internal energy market fundamentally weaken the framework that is needed to deliver an integrated market that will benefit European energy consumers, write Philip Baker and Christos Kolokathis from the global energy policy advisors Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP).

The Alliance, in partnership with many others, drafted the policy, and the result is a proposal that — from day one — considers the needs of the most vulnerable members of our society, and makes sure that the clean energy transition is for them too, not just for those who can afford it or who already have power.

Concerns with other proposals, like NextEra Energy's 300 - megawatt Sonoran Solar Energy Project, Bahr said, were addressed satisfactorily in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) permitting process.

Venture criticism of the proposal that a global scientific panel should determine the parameters of domestic energy, climate, and economic policies, and rather than being offered a defence of such a form of political organisation, you will be accused of «denying the science», and you will have scientific papers waved in your face.

«EPA's proposal for controlling greenhouse gas emissions from about half the nation's electric power supply is a poorly disguised cap - and - tax scheme that represents energy and economic policy at its worst,» Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association said in a statement.