Sentences with phrase «federal climate efforts»

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

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

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To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

Perhaps you also could add in a question to Marco Rubio about climate change, given that it was put in the context of Rubio's position that «federal efforts to fight climate change will cost U.S. jobs and hurt the U.S. economy.»

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based climate - based events.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

Transportation emissions threaten to undercut blue states» climate goals, raising questions about their ability to lead U.S. climate efforts at a time when the federal government is rolling back environmental regulations.

President Donald Trump today unveiled a 2019 budget request that — once again — calls for eliminating numerous federal research programs, including a fleet of NASA satellites, energy research efforts, and climate and environmental science programs.

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.

«Yet the U.S. has no national climate change preparedness strategy; and Federal efforts to address the rising risks have been undermined through budget cuts and other means.»

And Australian scientists have their fingers crossed, hoping the directive from Greg Hunt, revealed this morning, really indicates the federal government is reversing a previous decision to scale back climate research efforts.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

(1) provide technical assistance to Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and interested private landowners in their efforts to assess and address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources;

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

A new paper in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) summarizes efforts by the ARM Climate Research Facility, through collaborations with university and federal partners, to develop and use unmanned aerial capabilities for atmospheric research in the Arctic.

To discern the larger contours of the legal climate facing schools, we analyzed all appellate - level federal and state court cases in which school efforts to discipline and control students have been challenged.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small districts across America.

There is growing policy; fiscal and practical support for prosocial educational and school climate improvement efforts from federal agencies, state departments of education and large and small distri... Read More...

>> I'm also wondering, Dan, what your thoughts are on adopting new policies or what's federal or state or local barriers should be removed in effort to improve school climate, to help with school discipline issue.

Climate Change: Observations on Federal Efforts to Adapt to a Changing Climate.

Summarizes GAO's prior and ongoing work examining (1) actions that federal, state, local, and international authorities are taking to adapt to a changing climate, (2) the challenges that federal, state, and local officials face in their efforts to adapt, and (3) actions that the Congress and federal agencies could take to help address these challenges.

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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In 2007, Mr. Watts, a former TV weather forecaster, began recruiting legions of volunteers across the United States to inspect the thousands of weather stations — some in people's back yards or in parking lots — that have for generations produced the raw data feeding into federal and independent efforts to track climate trends.

There's been an ongoing attack on the credibility of federal climate monitoring efforts that has been partly inspired by Anthony Watts.

«The ultimate solution to greenhouse gases is unlikely to be either top down or bottom up but a reinforcing coordination of both,» he said, describing efforts to improve the ailing climate treaty, enact state and federal policies and regulations on emissions of greenhouse gases and other activities as meaningful steps, even in the face of growing emissions from China and India.

Even here in the US — where leadership at the federal level will certainly be missed — the massive number of states, cities, companies, organizations and individuals who committed to redoubling their climate efforts suggests that we're unlikely to see too much backsliding before a new administration takes over in Washington.

Ecological monitoring efforts need to be improved and better coordinated among Federal and State agencies to ensure that the impacts of climate change are adequately observed as well as to support ecological research, management, assessment, and policy.

Arthur Marin, Executive Director of NESCAUM, said, «For many years federal, state and local officials have highlighted the need for a comprehensive collection of information and tools to assist their efforts to develop effective strategies for adapting to climate change.

For the IPCC both the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) and the LIA (Little Ice Age) existed before the «hockey stick,» so viewing the situation objectively — after the IPCC participated in the rewriting of history by showcasing the «hockey stick as a part of the Left's efforts to manufacture a supposed consensus about climate change — the IPCC condoned a fraud that federal climatists to this very day persist in perpetrating on the public.

No legislation was enacted, and by 2010, both Congress and the White House had abandoned efforts to pass federal climate legislation.

In fiscal 2014, the U.S. Global Change Research Program — a joint effort of 10 federal agencies — spent almost $ 2.5 billion on climate change and other earth systems scientific research.

Unfortunately their efforts are undermined by rogue agencies like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which is failing to do its job and evaluate the environmental and climate impacts of the massive fossil fuel infrastructure projects it approves.

The Federal Government's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has bankrolled academic institutions in an effort to change the political landscape in Australia for the promotion of the Carbon Tax.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

Subtitle E: Adapting to Climate Change - Part 1: Domestic Adaptation - Subpart A: National Climate Change Adaptation Program - Global Change Research and Data Management Act of 2009 -(Sec. 451) Requires the President to establish or designate an interagency committee to ensure cooperation and coordination of all federal research activities pertaining to processes of global change for the purpose of increasing the overall effectiveness and productivity of federal global change research efforts.

This report analyzes the prospects of state efforts to address climate change by looking at a range of case studies to determine what characteristics of state policy innovation may be indicators of successful federal adoption.

(iii) provide information and technical support for Federal, regional, State, tribal, and local government efforts to assess and respond to climate variability and change;

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.

These include efforts to retract the Clean Power Plan, to eliminate the use of the social cost of carbon as currently constituted in federal cost / benefit analyses, and acknowledgement the current generation of climate models has no utility with regard to policy.

These city - led efforts to catalyze local clean energy economic development are important to watch as federal grants sunset, especially in the absence of a comprehensive national energy or climate policy.

The goal of the Summit was «to inform federal, state, regional, and local climate adaptation efforts, including the planning of the federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.climate adaptation efforts, including the planning of the federal Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.Climate Change Adaptation Task Force and the U.S. Global Change Research Program.»

Such efforts are beginning at the federal, regional, state, tribal, and local levels, and in the corporate and non-governmental sectors, to build adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change impacts.

Worried that decades of key climate data could disappear once President - elect Donald Trump takes office, some researchers from Toronto to the University of Pennsylvania have begun efforts to copy or download as much federal data as possible in coming weeks.

The US Chamber of Commerce has been a key part of the corporate effort to block federal action on climate change and undermine the scientific consensus on the issue.

One of the most tangible consequences of sharp cutbacks in federal funding for climate science is the potential loss of critical data — whether by neglect or malice — that underlie global efforts to understand our climate system.

President Donald Trump's decision to exit the Paris climate agreement reaffirmed what was already clear: The federal government is no longer leading American efforts to shrink our carbon footprint.

The Strategic Plan purports to do this by facilitating meaningful engagements between scientists and decision - makers, providing decision - makers with access to relevant and accurate science, guiding and coordinating Federal efforts through the USGCRP, and informing federal responses to climate Federal efforts through the USGCRP, and informing federal responses to climate federal responses to climate change.

The Australian federal government's effort to levy a tax on carbon - dioxide emissions to battle supposed «climate change» is facing massive resistance from voters, despite a flurry of pro-carbon-tax propaganda and government - funded reports touting alleged benefits of the scheme while downplaying its harmful effects.

That has been my goal all along, to get the smear of skeptic climate scientists investigated beyond my restricted abilities, by any full - fledged news outlet that can thoroughly comprehend the enormity of the problem, and / or by any Federal investigative effort that can comprehend how major governmental policy on mitigating global warming hinges entirely on preventing skeptic scientists» assessments from consideration.