Sentences with phrase «federal climate policy»

Previously, the committee had sway over federal climate policy.
When asked why I changed my mind about federal climate policy, this is a large part of my answer.
She joined RHG after five years as a journalist in Washington, D.C., where she most recently reported on federal climate policy for E&E News.
That While the U.S. was taking a gigantic step backwards with federal climate policy with the election of Donald Trump as President, Trudeau's announcement showed Canada had taken a big step forward on climate action.
Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.
She joined RHG after five years as a journalist in Washington, D.C., where she most recently reported on federal climate policy for E&E News.
Indeed, my purpose in this essay is to explore the potential for such state and regional policies — both in the presence of Federal climate policy and in the absence of such policy.
United States president Donald Trump's assault on federal climate policy only got more people thinking and talking about climate change.
Leach argues that «federal climate policy backstops put a stronger foundation under the Alberta plan and, with the Alberta plan in place, there is a credible although still very challenging path for Canada to meet its 2030 target.
The renewables milestone comes amid actions by the Trump administration to turn back federal climate policies intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions by embracing wind, solar and other renewable energy.
«The massive transformations underway in the U.S. electricity sector will likely continue, but they won't be driven by federal climate policy,» depending instead on state policy and technical innovation, he said.
Cities, states and private industry have arguably played an even more important role in shaping US technological innovation, energy mix and carbon emissions over the past ten years, even under proactive federal climate policy.
Nonetheless, the Trump administration is dismantling federal climate policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
If so, the only real federal climate policy tools will be lost until and unless a future Congress passes new legislation.
Nowhere is the gap between climate science and federal climate policy more obvious than at the Environmental Protection Agency.
Meyer says that he does not think a focused federal climate policy such as a carbon pricing is strictly necessary, but he does see it as a vast improvement over the stew of command - and - control regulations, green energy subsidies, and Solyndras that we're getting now.
If federal climate policy comes into force, the more stringent California policy will accomplish no additional reductions in greenhouse gases, but simply increase the state's costs and subsidize other parts of the country.
This is hardly just a crunchy granola group of mayors interested in saving the marquee federal climate policy.
«That's in part why, despite consistent efforts to weaken or roll back existing federal climate policies, the administration has yet to successfully suspend, weaken, or repeal a major climate protection.»
July 22: «美国联邦政府的气候变化政策 : 历史 , 目前状况与将来的道路 (U.S. Federal Climate Policy: Where are we, how did we get here, and where are we going?)»
Thus, in the presence of Federal climate policy, interactions with sub-national policies can be problematic, benign, or positive, depending upon the relative scope and stringency of the sub-national and national policies, as well as the particular policy instruments employed at both levels.
The Center's new report looks behind that number, and traces the origins, goals, strategies and influence of one of the most important voices weighing in on federal climate policy.
The decisive shift in federal climate policy will have little impact on businesses: Shareholders and large state governments have already pushed big business to act on the issue.
Their report emphasizes the utility of rapid - response airborne chemical sampling in providing leak rate data, and it reveals how single vulnerabilities in the natural gas infrastructure can impact local and federal climate policies.
Thus, single vulnerabilities can have major implications for state and federal climate policy.
The most effective climate actions WE ACT has undertaken has been developing, in 2007, a 40 - member, (in 19 states) Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change to unify a grass - roots voice in Washington, D.C., on federal climate policy.
Federal climate policy will all but disappear; participation in international environmental or climate treaties will end; pollution regulations will be reversed, frozen in place, or not enforced; clean energy research, development, and deployment assistance will decline; protections for sensitive areas and ecosystems will be lifted; federal leasing of fossil fuels will expand and accelerate; new Supreme Court appointees will crack down on EPA discretion.
Even without Trump's attempts to roll back federal climate policy, the United States is shifting its economy to clean energy too slowly.»
Additional natural gas pipeline may be an obstacle to compliance with state and federal climate policies.
I've frequently written about cap - and - trade in the past (See, for example: Here We Go Again: A Closer Look at the Kerry - Lieberman Cap - and - Trade Proposal; Eyes on the Prize: Federal Climate Policy Should Preempt State and Regional Initiatives; Any Hope for Meaningful U.S. Climate Policy?
Federal climate policy has been interrupted by the Supreme Court's stay (freeze) on implementation of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Clean Power Plan, which will regulate emissions from the electric power industry.
My focus is on how these sub-national policies will interact with a Federal climate policy.
One example of benign interactions of state and Federal climate policy is the case of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in the northeast.
Three scenarios suggest the possibility of positive interactions of state and Federal climate policies.
Does this mean that there will be no Federal climate policy in the meantime?
He added that the federal climate policies Mr. Gore endorses «would infuse his business ventures with large sums of taxpayer dollars and set him up to become the first climate billionaire.»
Coal produces huge amounts of carbon dioxide when it's burned, and federal climate policy is silent on this potentially large source of emissions.
Federal climate policy is silent on this potentially large source of emissions, so the debate is happening at the local level.
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