Sentences with phrase «federal climate legislation»

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.

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.

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.

After the failure of federal climate legislation in Congress this year, the fate of California's law was viewed as a US turning point — either away from addressing global warming or toward stronger action to curb greenhouse gases.

She began working with Greenpeace in 2008 on federal climate legislation and has since worked on reforming federal fossil fuel leasing programs and fighting new infrastructure projects around the United States.

Looking to the next five years, Browning is hoping to lay the groundwork for federal climate legislation, an admitted slim possibility under the Trump administration.

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.»

«Without federal climate legislation that locks in longer - term economy - wide reductions, the longer - term picture is unclear,» said Nicholas Bianco, a senior associate at W.R.I. and a co-author of the study.

But the defeat of federal climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate policy.

Twenty - nine states and the District of Columbia have binding renewable standards; in the absence of federal climate legislation, these initiatives have become the subject of intense political battles.

It will be interesting to see how these issues — particularly those relating to federal climate legislation — are debated among states, a grouping that displays a wide range of resources, interests and capabilities.

Industry lobbying factored heavily in the 2001 rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the U.S. administration under President George W Bush (Vidal 2005) and in the failure of the U.S. Senate to take up federal climate legislation after a comprehensive cap on emissions passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009 (Mackinder 2010; Grandia 2009; Oreskes 2010).