Sentences with phrase «federal climate change legislation»

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.

Yet when US federal climate change legislation was under consideration between 2009 and 2010, there was almost no public discussion about whether proposed US climate change legislation would reduce US greenhouse gas emissions to levels that represent the US fair share of safe global emissions.

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.

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.

As the nation debates possible structures for federal climate change legislation, many states are already moving forward with carbon - cutting plans of their own.

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While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

Washington, DC — «The nation's mayors are disappointed that the U.S. Senate is unwilling to move beyond initial debate on needed federal climate legislation to position America to do its part to combat the global threat of climate change.»

Its report, «The Climate Change Lobby Explosion,» describes how hundreds of companies are trying to influence who wins and loses financially as President Obama and the new Congress try to shape federal legislation and spending on climate and related energy Climate Change Lobby Explosion,» describes how hundreds of companies are trying to influence who wins and loses financially as President Obama and the new Congress try to shape federal legislation and spending on climate and related energy climate and related energy issues.

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

Speaking to Nature Reports Climate Change last week, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer rejected the notion that the US will first need to enact federal legisClimate Change last week, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer rejected the notion that the US will first need to enact federal legisclimate chief Yvo de Boer rejected the notion that the US will first need to enact federal legislation:

Interest in tackling climate change in the United States has increased somewhat recently in response to global CO2 atmospheric concentrations reaching 400 ppm, although there is almost no hope of new federal legislation soon.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

Bette Grande presents «Federal Regulations - State vs. Federal Legislation Responsibility and Options» at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC July 12, 2015.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

Federal flood insurance reform legislation enacted this year could aid proactive state and local preparedness for climate change, sea level rise, and flooding.

(a) Align the Water Act 2007 with federal and state legislation, particularly those relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land rights, cultural heritage, environmental protection, the Native Title Act 1993, and climate change legislation when it is drafted.