Sentences with phrase «federal climate change»
With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.
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These two complementary investigations arrived at similar conclusions regarding the state of federal climate research: while scientists hold a high regard for the quality of federal climate change research, there is broad interference in communicating scientific results.
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.
Washington, D.C. — Today, a broad coalition of business, professional, energy, and environmental organizations released recommendations on the role of energy efficiency in federal climate change legislation.
The Trump administration's FY2018 budget proposes a 59 % cut in funding for DOE's earth and environmental sciences program which plays a key role in federal climate change research.
Social Justice, Human Rights and Conservation Organizations and Individuals Support Youth Appellants» Federal Climate Change Case
Washington, DC, for example, is at the heart of federal climate change regulation, so lawyers here are most likely to be involved in policy drafting.
«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.»
«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.»
Ninety - nine percent of the $ 3 billion federal Climate Change Technology Program should still go toward developing climate - friendly energy systems.
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.
Don't get too comfortable with the newest federal climate change guidelines, legal experts cautioned yesterday.
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.
At a recent hearing of the House Science Committee, which has jurisdiction over NOAA and other agencies that produce federal climate change research, Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas) said he wanted to «rebalance» NASA and shift its climate research to other agencies.
There is little doubt these changes are human induced, as the Bush administration - appointed federal Climate Change Science Program conceded in May.
Boosting coal production, bringing back coals jobs, and killing federal climate change programs have been among his top priorities since he took office.
Zarrilli was on an advisory committee set up by the United States Global Change Research Program under Obama to improve the usefulness of federal climate change risks assessments as communities around the country confront emerging perils.
This is the topic of a paper which Professor Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University) and I have written, «Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies» (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 16123, June 2010).
According to Globe International, the organization behind the study, Canada currently «has no comprehensive federal climate change legislation.»
Without a functional democracy, there can be no federal role in responding to voter demand, not only for a clean energy economy that is less dependent on fossil fuels, but also for clean air, water, large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and a robust federal climate change science program.
(See related story: «Federal Climate Change Report Highlights Risks for Americans.»)
Our nation's federal Climate Change Science Program «has been plagued by a stagnant budget, poor coordination between participating agencies, and a lack of White House leadership» reported Eli Kintisch in the October 10 Science magazine.
Second, those same authorities have to assess how effective they are now at not only defining and reporting federal climate change funding but also lining up that funding with agreed - upon priorities.
Federal climate change research programs coordinated under the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) are being subjected to draconian cuts; many are being downsized or totally defunded, and climate change scientists are now routinely being reassigned to other projects.
We don't have federal climate change legislation in place in the United States, but the Obama administration is pushing for a carbon tax in the new budget.
He was the lead in the development of the USGCRP's new Ten Year Strategic Plan and a key player in the Third National Climate Assessment, the President's Climate Action Plan, and other activities related to the federal climate change enterprise.
Coalition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt briefed public servants on the dramatic restructure of the federal climate change bureaucracy before the election was called and yesterday confirmed the Coalition was committed to proceeding with the plan.
The Trump administration can not short circuit a federal climate change lawsuit brought by a group of 21 children and teenagers, an appellate court ruled on Wednesday, likely sending the ambitious case back to a lower court in Oregon for trial.
TAXPAYERS will fork out $ 90 million a year to keep more than 400 public servants employed within the federal Climate Change Department - despite most now having nothing to do until 2013.
«Communities across the Nation are already experiencing a range of climatic changes,» says the 2011 progress report of the federal Climate Change Adaptation Task Force.
The legal team at Our Children's Trust was already developing a federal climate change case seeking to hold the government accountable for their role in promoting fossil fuel development and continue their ongoing global legal campaign to hold governments accountable for precisely that which the Pope has said is causing our undoing.
Gore implies Cooney's secret mission was to sabotage such efforts as the federal Climate Change Science Program.
Authors of the GAO report refer to federal climate change program as complex and crosscutting.
The federal climate change bill appears to be dead this session, the victim of partisan politics in defiance of good sense.
We don't have federal climate change legislation in place in the United States, but the Obama administration is pushing for a carbon tax in the new budget.