Sentences with phrase «for federal climate legislation»

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.

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The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

As the nation debates possible structures for federal climate change legislation, many states are already moving forward with carbon - cutting plans of their own.

While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

We don't have federal climate change legislation in place in the United States, but the Obama administration is pushing for a carbon tax in the new budget.

Here are two fresh statements, on geoengineering and on the choices being made by Congress — at least so far — in regard to financing for basic energy research as a component of federal legislation on climate:

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

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 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 Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate climate policy.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

These bills can serve as models for progressive climate legislation at the state and federal levels.

«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.

For seven years he has been advocating for federal carbon fee and dividend legislation with the Citizens» Climate Lobby (CCFor seven years he has been advocating for federal carbon fee and dividend legislation with the Citizens» Climate Lobby (CCfor federal carbon fee and dividend legislation with the Citizens» Climate Lobby (CCL).

13 13 Obama Administration & Congressional Support for Renewable Energy American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, includes $ 60 billion in clean energy investments: — $ 6 billion available for loan guarantees in renewable energy and electric transmission technologies — $ 11 billion for Smart Grid technology R&D — $ 4.5 billion to green federal government buildings — $ 6.3 billion for state / local renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts Pending Climate and Energy Legislation — American Clean Energy and Security Act — American Clean Energy Leadership Act

Denialists will want to focus on the anomalously cool region of northern Russia — not record - breaking, but taking about anomalous cooling can help to introduce doubt into the decision - making process, which is helpful when it comes to blocking climate and energy legislation, preventing federal and state shifts in energy policy, providing talking points for Inhofe & Barton, etc..

Federal flood insurance reform legislation enacted this year could aid proactive state and local preparedness for climate change, sea level rise, and flooding.