Sentences with phrase «from major emitters»

In his time as a lobbyist at Bracewell & Giuliani, Holmstead was implicated in a 2010 scandal revealing that he and another former Bush EPA official - turned - lobbyist ghostwrote a legislative amendment for Senator Lisa Murkowski (I - AK) that would have undermined the Clean Air Act's provision to control climate - altering greenhouse gases from major emitters.

The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate greenhouse gases from major emitters.

We also provide tools to explore other dimensions of climate policy, including countries» Paris Agreement mitigation contributions, projections of emissions from major emitters through 2100, and various dimensions of climate equity.

Not exact matches

Cotton fertilizers are major greenhouse gas emitters, and trucking cotton from farms to industrial gins, spinners and weavers generates transportation emissions, compounded by repeated energy - intensive heating and cooling processes.

«HFC 23 emitters can earn almost twice as much from the CDM credits as they can from selling refrigerant gases — by any measure a major distortion of the market,» writes Michael Wara of Stanford University, US, in the journal Nature.

«(ii) the state or province by itself is a major emitter of greenhouse gases from tropical deforestation on a scale commensurate to the emissions of other countries; and

Or maybe President Bush's parallel effort to extract «aspirational» climate goals from the «major economies» — a polite way of saying major emitters — will be the venue where progress is made.

Second place was scooped up by the U.S. as well, this time for re-opening the Major Emitters (or as they call it, Major Economies) negotiations in the midst of the Bali negotiations, distracting from the process at hand.

My print story today assessing the outcome of President Bush's effort to extract climate plans from the «major economies» (aka «major emitters») includes a description by Gwyn Prins of a moment when those imperatives seemed to clash.

The accord starts to move away from the artificial distinction between developed versus developing countries towards one of major emitters versus everyone else.

Two major emitters, China and India, were exempted from the Protocols, thus rendering it even more idiotic than it already was.

From 1850 to 2011, the five major emitters — the United States, European Union, China, Russian Federation and Japan — together contributed two - thirds of the world's CO2 emissions.

«(ii) the state or province by itself is a major emitter of greenhouse gases from tropical deforestation on a scale commensurate to the emissions of other countries; and

Matthew Marler, yes, the DDPP proposes practical methods for the major emitters to decrease fast enough to meet global emission budget targets such as those from the IPCC.

The White House, however, failed to get a similar agreement from India, the world's third - largest emitter, which was a major blow to Obama's global warming goals.

To avoid administrative paralysis, economic disruption, and political backlash, the Tailoring Rule exempts all but the largest GHG emitters from PSD and Title permitting requirements over the next six years, raising from 100/250 tons per year to 75,000 / 100,000 tons per year the cutoff for regulation as a «major» emitting facility.

That's just one of several headline takeaways on a Tuesday of big announcements from Brazil, China, and the US — three of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters — with major implications for the UN climate talks in Paris later this year.

From there, several groups and individuals of the Church joined the global movement to fight the major emitters of greenhouse gases: fossil fuels.

Harper and successive environment ministers have repeatedly said Canada would move on climate change when there was a commitment from «all major emitters» to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU will strengthen its Emissions Trading System from 2013 by expanding it to include greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide and to incorporate all major industrial emitters.

Invest in a Digital Smart Grid: Obama will pursue a major investment in our utility grid to enable a tremendous increase in renewable generation and accommodate modern energy requirements, such as reliability, smart metering, and distributed storage Restore U.S. Leadership on Climate Change Create New Forum of Largest Greenhouse Gas Emitters: Obama will create a Global Energy Forum — that includes all G - 8 members plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa — the largest energy consuming nations from both the developed and developing world.