Sentences with phrase «existing environmental laws»

This is the hard truth America's climate activists refuse to acknowledge: Either Barack Obama and Gina McCarthy step up to their clear responsibility under existing environmental law, or else the steep reductions in America's GHG emissions the climate activists are seeking will never happen.

As I've demonstrated in other posts here on Climate Etc., the President and the EPA Administrator have the legal power and authority required to largely decarbonize America's economy, if they are willing to apply existing environmental law and regulation to the full extent the Clean Air Act not only allows, but also demands.

ref A key strategy to address ocean acidification is reinforcing existing environmental laws (e.g., U.S. Clean Water Act) to: limit runoff and associated pollutants, control coastal erosion, and enforce emission limits for pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.

The Bush administration has strongly opposed legal maneuvers aimed at limiting greenhouse gases with existing environmental laws.

In any case, the Senate hearing might well have been the perfect opportunity for Congressional Democrats to match today's climate science to a realistic plan for taking strong action against rising GHG emissions, a plan founded entirely in the provisions of existing environmental laws and regulations.

The Clean Air Act provides a sound legal basis in existing environmental law for developing all of the specialized regulatory tools which will be needed to achieve President Obama's goal of an 80 % reduction in America's carbon emissions by 2050.

The latest version of the seven - month spending plan... from House Republicans would hack $ 3 billion from the agency's budget — a 29 percent cut from 2010 levels and nearly twice the proposed cuts in the original plan... The National Wildlife Federation says the cuts amount to a «sneak attack» on existing environmental laws like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, because they would make it basically impossible for the EPA to do its job.

Topic # 1: What could the President and the EPA Administrator be doing under existing environmental law to greatly reduce America's GHG emissions, versus what they are actually doing?

The best way to deal with this is to rein in the oil and gas industry by taking over part of it and redirecting it into public interest ownership and / or by applying our existing environmental laws.

The larger parties have all tried to reassure the public that environmental laws will not be swept away or weakened, but only the Greens use their manifesto to promise unequivocally to retain or enhance «all existing environmental laws».

«While I'm not supporting your nomination today, I hope that as we move forward that we see a different response from this White House on how important the resource management of our nation is and the existing environmental law is to our country,» she concluded.

But in pursuing those goals, neither the President nor the EPA Administrator have come anywhere close to exercising their full legal authorities under existing environmental law.

In the absence of such a finding, Plaintiffs contend that existing environmental laws will continue to fail to protect the Colorado River, and thus, continue to fail to protect the human and natural communities that are dependent on the River.»