Sentences with phrase «federal climate»

Previously, the committee had sway over federal climate policy.

Two independent investigations revealed persistent political interference in the work of federal climate scientists.

These two complementary investigations arrived at similar conclusions regarding the state of federal climate research and the need for strong policies to protect the integrity of science and the free flow of scientific information.

But it will be years before these forces are incorporated in official forecasts issued by federal climate prediction centers, he said.

In short, not even the most robust federal climate mitigation policy is likely to pay for local climate adaptation.

When asked why I changed my mind about federal climate policy, this is a large part of my answer.

But he predicted that politics nationally would shift to the point where federal climate legislation would be possible and presidential contenders will need to have a position on the issue.

Federal climate science research is at the forefront of assessing fundamental causes of global warming and the future dangers it could pose to our nation and the world.

Thus, single vulnerabilities can have major implications for state and federal climate policy.

In the mid 2000s, he exposed political suppression of climate findings at NASA and editing of federal climate reports by political appointees with ties to the petroleum industry.

I didn't have time to discuss it on NPR, but the pattern was multifaceted, affecting media communications, Congressional testimony, science program reports, scientific assessment activity, and other political interference with federal climate scientists.

In Response to Supreme Court Denial, Youth Climate Advocates Continue Quest For Effective Federal Climate Action

Opinion: Most provincial and federal climate plans use carbon pricing as a revenue tool to fund government programs that subsidize inefficient carbon reduction strategies

(l) Clearinghouse of Federal Climate Service products and links to Federal agencies providing climate services.

Roger Pielke Jr recently made the remarkable discovery that, in addition to his university salary from George Mason University (reported by Pielke as $ 250,000), Jagadish Shukla, the leader of the #RICO20, together with his wife, had received a further $ 500,000 more in 2014 alone from federal climate grants funnelled through a Shukla - controlled «non-profit» (Institute for Global Environment and Security, Inc.), yielding total income in 2014 of approximately $ 750,000.

Don't get too comfortable with the newest federal climate change guidelines, legal experts cautioned yesterday.

Those are just some of the buzzwords circulating through the news cycle this year as the power sector kept its eyes pinned on federal climate regulations for utilities, an ambitious proceeding to upend their business model, and a monster merger in the nation's capital.

Looking for an immediate political win, meanwhile, Trump rapidly signed executive orders that will see a dramatic change in US federal climate change rules by targeting Obama's Clean Power Plan and increasing support for coal and other fossil fuels.

The federal case demands sweeping changes in federal climate efforts and in government programs that subsidize or foster development of fossil fuels.

The 2014 Form 990 (Schedule I) shows IGES paid a $ 100,000 grant using federal climate grant money to the Institute for Global Education Equality of Opportunity and Prosperity, Inc. (IGEP), which was incorporated in 2006 by Anastasia «Anne» Shukla at the residence address of the Shukla family in Rockville, Maryland.

Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.

California has been nearly alone in its efforts to curtail greenhouse gases, after attempts to pass federal climate legislation collapsed in Congress in 2010 and several states abandoned plans to pursue their own regulations.

Federal Climate Emergency Declaration petition including actions data People who sign this petition can also answer a few quick questions about how they reduce their carbon emissions.

HEARING IN YOUTH»S LANDMARK FEDERAL CLIMATE LAWSUIT GENERATES IMMENSE PUBLIC INTEREST: Federal Court Reserves Three Overflow Courtrooms For Huge Expected Turnout as Fossil Fuel Industry and Federal Government Try to Foil Youth's Case

President - elect Donald Trump's actions thus far do not bode well, particularly his appointment of Scott Pruitt, a principal architect to dismantle federal climate mitigation policies, to the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency.

«In addition to its reliance on existing and primarily recent synthesis reports from the peer reviewed literature, it also underwent a technical review by12 federal climate change experts, internal EPA review, and interagency review.»

Two major federal climate science reports — one on climate change - induced extreme weather, the other on increasing difficulties in dealing with climate impacts on federal lands — were released last week with two nearly opposite communication strategies.

Clint Woods of ALEC said that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and other cap - and - trade greenhouse gas reduction plans would become the «new battlefield» after federal climate legislation fell through.

In addition, federal climate officials say there's a good chance the La Nina weather pattern will officially be in effect by this fall or winter.

Some GOP lawmakers, including Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who chairs the House Science Committee, have said federal climate science has become too politicized.

Major electricity providers and some government officials in West Virginia, the state leading the charge against federal climate change regulations, want to use carbon trading to meet their greenhouse gas reduction targets, according to public records obtained by ClimateWire.

Maybe so, but for three decades and counting, that has not happened, in no small part because the fossil fuels industry has used every political weapon in its vast corporate arsenals to stop any meaningful federal climate response.

The average temperature in the United States has risen rapidly and drastically since 1980, and recent decades have been the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a sweeping federal climate change report awaiting approval by the Trump administration.

AAAS leads intersociety letter expressing «grave concern» about congressional inquiry that unfoundedly called into question federal climate scientists» integrity [November 24, 2015]

Currently, none expressly supports geoengineering research, though federal climate science officials have been quietly reviewing the idea for the entirety of the Obama administration.