Sentences with phrase «federal climate change regulation»

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.

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.

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The U.S. power sector must cut carbon dioxide emissions 30 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, according to federal regulations unveiled on Monday that form the centerpiece of the Obama administration's climate change strategy.

One big challenge to U.S. efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions comes this week, as a federal circuit court hears arguments over a challenge to the White House's major climate change initiative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations targeting emissions from power plants.

The Treasury secretaries» letter was among dozens submitted to the SEC from industry groups, climate change activists and federal agencies on the final day of the commission's comment period regarding changes to SEC Regulation S - K.

Klein follows the «dark» money behind the propaganda of climate - change denial, the effort to dismantle the federal government to curtail corporate regulation, and the justification for the feverish pursuit of the riskiest forms of carbon - emission - producing energy from tar sands extraction to deep - water drilling, fracking, and mountaintop - removal coal mining.

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It's particularly important to account for all potential health benefits realized thanks to implementation of a federal regulation aimed at climate change mitigation since health co-benefits make up the majority share of near - term economic benefits caused by carbon pollution reduction.

We've seen Trump recently rescind Obama regulations of how to build federal projects and to take climate change projections into account — for example, rising sea levels, flood projections.

Tighter federal regulations for climate change and clean air have ensured that virtually no new coal plants will get built in coming years.

Most estimates project that the U.S. will come close to meeting its Paris climate agreement targets simply because of the switch to gas and renewables; a shift in federal regulations isn't likely to change that, she adds.

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.

Even before Indiana's top enforcer of federal and state environmental regulations was advising coal companies on how to continuing polluting our air and water, it appears that denial of basic climate science is the state's official position on global warming — Indiana's 2011 «State of the Environment» report rehashes tired climate denier arguments such as global temperature records having «no appreciable change since about 1998.»

DEBORAH AMOS: These corporate leaders, motivated by the reality of climate change, the fear of state - by - state regulation and the hope of new business opportunities, wanted the federal government to impose mandatory limits on carbon.

Regardless of one's views on climate change, the simple reality is that federal policy is going to address the matter... That can happen through ill - advised regulations, like those proposed by the president today, or it can happen through a vibrant market with clear price signals attached to all fuels.

«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.

The state of Texas today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a federal appeals court in Washington DC, claiming four new regulations imposed by the EPA are based on the «thoroughly discredited» findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and are «factually flawed,» 1200 WOAI news reports.

In addition, our litigators defend clients in a wide range of civil and criminal enforcement actions arising out of the major federal environmental statutes — including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund), FIFRA, RCRA, TSCA, and EPCRA (Right - to - Know)-- as well as climate change regulation, renewable energy regulation, and project development.

«To date, they have been fairly resistant to the federal government in terms of climate change regulations.