Sentences with phrase «federal emissions reduction»

And while state officials are confident they'll hit federal emissions reduction goals far ahead of schedule, it will be harder to do so without the state's nuclear power plants.

While New York is on track to meet its federal emissions reduction target, the loss of two or more reactors would make it considerably more difficult.

Not exact matches

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

Washington has sought to roll back burdensome regulations at a time when provincial and federal governments here are raising minimum wages and rolling out carbon emission reduction policies.

As the governor conferred with his top staff members, federal law enforcement authorities say his then - executive deputy secretary, Joseph Percoco, and a former longtime friend and adviser, Todd Howe, were secretly exploiting their political muscle in a bribery scheme that would help the energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, purchase pollution «emission reduction credits» from New York state.

Window for rapid emissions reduction may be closing Obama begins his second term one week after a federal advisory committee of 60 climate experts issued a draft report that warns of accelerating global warming.

Nationwide, if only 15 percent of residential property owners took advantage of such programs, the emissions reductions would contribute 4 percent of the savings needed for the U.S. to reach 1990 emissions levels by 2020 — all at no net cost to local, state or federal governments because owners pay back the loans.

Government Applications — SMRs are specifically identified as carbon - free energy for U.S. government facilities to meet or exceed the carbon emissions reductions per Executive Order 13693 «Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade».

As auto makers, federal policy makers and environmentalists get ready to craft the next round of U.S. corporate average fuel economy, Tonkin raps an Environmental Protection Agency proposal to improve fuel - economy and carbon - dioxide - emissions reductions equivalent by as much as 62 mpg (3.9 L / 100 km).

The reduction in size and weight was implemented to improve fuel economy and emissions as a result of the United States Federal Government passage of Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations.

Washington has sought to roll back burdensome regulations at a time when provincial and federal governments here are raising minimum wages and rolling out carbon emission reduction policies.

Here in Australian, the federal government is spending tens of billions of dollars on stimulus package after stimulus package, and tiny fractions of that (mainly at the instigation of Greens senators who are using their balance of power for leverage) are going towards emissions reduction.

In Switzerland, First Climate has initiated a variety of innovative emission reduction projects and supported them through final approval by the Federal Office for the Environment.

On December 6, 2010, the Supreme Court said it will hear an appeal from defendant electric utilities, agreeing to consider ending the federal lawsuit by eight states, which asks a federal judge to order reductions in the emissions in plants in 20 states.

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In the near term, federal policy could: i) level the playing field between air captured CO2 and fossil - fuel derived CO2 by providing subsidies or credits for superior carbon lifecycle emissions that account for recovering carbon from the atmosphere; ii) provide additional research funding into air capture R&D initiatives, along with other areas of carbon removal, which have historically been unable to secure grants; and iii) ensure air capture is deployed in a manner that leads to sustainable net - negative emissions pathways in the future, within the framework of near - term national emissions reductions, and securing 2 °C - avoiding emissions trajectories.

Canada can be a world leader in emissions reductions and renewable energy use, but only if its federal government decides to take climate change seriously, according to a new report.

New federal environmental regulations call for substantial emissions reductions from U.S. power grids.

State action has been crucial to continuing emissions reductions and engagement in the climate process, but there is no substitute for federal U.S. leadership on climate.

The federal government has proposed rules to control emissions and set a target of achieving a 40 -45-percent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020 — something we can do at bargain prices.

Even within Australia, while successive federal governments remain mired, various states and territories have implemented far more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, including for example, net zero emissions from Victoria and the ACT by 2050.

It also would advocate for federal vehicle fuel economy standards, for low - emission and zero - emission vehicle (ZEV) and GHG reduction programs, and for more community education on transportation electrification and mass transit.

Leonard had long supported unsuccessful efforts to get Congress to adopt some form of carbon cap and trade initiative, where the federal government would enforce a slowly lowering cap on emissions, with some companies selling reductions beyond their cap levels to others that were likely to violate the cap.

Second, our companies are for renewables, not against them, investing $ 81 billion in renewables and carbon - reduction efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 2000 and 2012 — nearly as much as all other U.S. industries ($ 91 billion) and more than the federal government ($ 80 billion).

The traffic - related nitrogen oxide emissions in the Federal Republic of Germany have fallen sharply since the introduction of the emission limitation for road traffic in 1960 up until today and a further reduction by a total of 86 % in maximum emissions is expected in the future as well [58].

The study, Impact Assessment of Clean Fuel Standards on the Canadian Economy, states that biofuels could be responsible for as much as 21.3 megatonnes (MT) per year of greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2030 — approximately 70 percent of the 30 MT target set by the federal government.

The next day headlines will celebrate the «stunning» reduction in GHG and Peter Kent will be quoted as saying that Canada has met half of its Copenhagen target (a 50 - something Mt drop would mean total emissions of around 680Mt), etc., neutralizing any criticism of Canada's inaction on climate change on a hot political year, with 7 provincial elections and, in all likelihood, a federal one.

Many of us have been pretty well beaten about the head and psychologically battered since the election of state and federal Liberal Coalition governments and their relentless dismantling of emissions reduction legislation and the various programs and measures that so many of us have fought so hard and so long to get off the starting blocks.

«(1) whether the programs under Safe Climate Act and other Federal statutes are resulting in sufficient United States greenhouse gas emissions reductions to meet the emissions reduction goals described in section 702, taking into account the use of offsets; and

(C) actions, in addition to those identified by the Administrator under section 851 of the Clean Air Act (as added by subsection (c)-RRB-, the Federal Government may take to encourage or require reductions in black carbon emissions.

These emission reductions didn't happen by accident — and especially not due to federal regulation.

CFACT Truth Squad member Paul Driessen, in a piece entitled, «Triple Threat: UN, EPA and Congress,» warns that even without Kyoto - imposed CO2 reductions, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's proposed regulations of CO2 and other emissions, and the Interior Department's use of the Endangered Species Act to lock up millions of acres of forest and oil and natural gas reserves, can accomplish much the same thing as the climate alarmists attempted at Copenhagen, Cancun, Doha, and other climate conferences.

The acceleration in deforestation also reverses much of the federal government's $ 2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF).

We are told by the federal government that increasing oil and gas production and meeting emissions reduction targets are mutually compatible goals.

Federal environment minister Greg Hunt has hailed the first round of Emissions Reduction Fund auctions as a «stunning result».

For the avoidance of doubt, Gross Revenues shall (A) exclude monies received from any source other than the sale of electric energy and capacity, including, without limitation, any of the following: (i) any federal, state, county or local tax benefits, grants or credits or allowances related to, derived from, or granted to the Wind Energy Project or Grantee, including, but not limited to, investment or production tax credits, or property or sales tax exemptions, (ii) proceeds from financing activities, sales, assignments, partial assignments, contracts (other than the power purchase agreement) or other dispositions of or related to the Wind Energy Project (such as damages for breach of contract or liquidated damages for delays in project completion or failures in equipment performance), (iii) amounts received as reimbursements or compensation for wheeling costs or other electricity transmission or delivery costs, and (iv) any proceeds received by Grantee as a result of damage or casualty to the Wind Energy Project, or any portion thereof and (B) include any revenues derived from Grantee's sale of carbon dioxide trading credits, renewable energy credits or certificates, emissions reduction credits, emissions allowances, green tags, tradable renewable credits, or Green - e ® products, any of which are allocated to Grantee, if applicable, through its participation in any voluntary registry, association or market - based exchange.

Visualizing Why US Federal and US State Governments» GHG Emissions Reduction Commitments Are Woefully Inadequate In Light of Recent Science.

Urge their state governments, and the federal government, to enact policies and programs to meet or beat the greenhouse gas emission reduction target suggested for the United States in the Kyoto Protocol — 7 % reduction from 1990 levels by 2012; and

In 2007, the Pew Center played a major role in launching the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an unprecedented alliance of nonprofit organizations and leading businesses — including General Electric and all three major U.S. automobile manufacturers — in support of federal emissions - reduction legislation

(WRI, 2012) US ghg emissions reductions have been achieved in the United States due largely significant fuel switching in the electricity sector from coal to natural gas, an economic slowdown that began in 2008, and some federal and US state regulatory programs designed to reduce ghg emissions.

While Steve Stoft is correct that RPS will likely not create any greenhouse gas emissions reductions beyond those imposed by a future federal cap, a federal renewable energy program will, if properly designed, create more renewable power capacity, which will have benefits beyond contributing to lowering our GHG emissions.

The letter, organised by Australian National University climatologist Andrew Glikson, calls on the federal government to make «meaningful reductions of Australia's peak carbon emissions and coal exports, while there is still time».

Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the emissions reductions expected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

These members claim to «support economy - wide reductions in CO2 emissions and / or federal cap - and - trade legislation»: Alcoa, Caterpillar, Deere & Co., Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Eastman Kodak, Entergy, Fox Entertainment, IBM, Lockheed, Nike, PepsiCo., PNM Resources, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Toyota, and Xerox.

Recent climate and clean energy policy developments at the state and city - level policy developments could potentially accelerate last year's pace of emission reductions, while recent federal regulatory changes could slow that progress.

This federal government agency's actions resulted in greenhouse gas emissions exceeding the reductions in President Obama's Clean Power Plan.

A review by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) of five detailed studies published recently by various NGOs and federal energy forecasters (M.J. Bradley, the Energy Information Administration, the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Rhodium Group for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Nicholas Institute) finds that the CPP will only require about an 18 percent emissions reduction beyond business - as - usual scenarios from now through 2030.

The plan creates the nation's first federal limits on carbon pollution from US power plants, aiming to cut emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, and gives states the flexibility to develop an emissions reduction strategy that works for them.

He also reiterated the federal government's longstanding view that international funding for programs that slow deforestation («REDD +») should be performance - based, but not offset - based — meaning that foreign governments can fund REDD initiatives within Brazil, but they can not use emission - reductions achieved to offset their own emissions.

If the federal government doesn't recognize the emission - reductions, then the state's recognition is irrelevant.