Sentences with phrase «fuel policy which»

[no reference] Certain American political allies of Israel, like the Evangelical Christians, tend to deny the reality of climate change while supporting the fossil fuel policy which gives rise to it.

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So policy makers focus on «core inflation,» which ignores changes in prices for fruit, vegetables, gasoline, fuel oil, natural gas, mortgage interest, intercity transportation, tobacco products and indirect taxes.

Investors have piled back into the market in response to the adoption of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's radical economic policies — coined «Abenomics» — which have fueled hope the world's third largest economy may be hauling itself out of a decade of stagnant economic growth.

For example, while the Bank of Canada uses core inflation to set its monetary policy, that figure does not include the cost of fuel and food, which nonetheless represent a significant chunk of many household budgets.

Industry advocates often blame the Obama administration's «war on coal,» specifically two signature policies to reduce fossil fuels» carbon emissions — the Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect before the Trump administration moved to eliminate it altogether, and the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the United States has withdrawn.

But at the same time, the Fed's stimulative policies helped fuel a surge in the stock market, which, even with the recent declines, remains far above pre-recession levels.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

Nor have we yet deployed a comprehensive set of policies to support the rebalancing of the U.S. economy toward a growth path based more on business investment, trade and broad - based income gains than the type of asset price gains and credit - fuelled consumption, which dominated the last business cycle.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timePolicy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timepolicy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

The call was the most controversial proposal in a policy document which also suggested scrapping universal winter fuel payments, excluding students and highly skilled workers from the immigration target, ensuring new teachers have at least a 2:1 degree and abandoning automatic pay rises for doctors and nurses.

There are no straightforward answers to such questions, but the potential benefits will fuel future discussions, which could hopefully lead to societal agreement about data for policy.

«No - one opposes fair immigration rules, but that doesn't require polarising publicity stunts which fuel fear and intimidate vulnerable communities, poisoning delicate race relations,» Liberty policy director Isabella Sankey said.

According to him, although the drivers are happy with the implementation of pro-poor policies, including the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme, the rate at which fuel prices are increasing is affecting their businesses.

If he accepts that savings can be made through investment in insulation, why, when households will face higher tax bills for years to come, is he resistant to our policy, which would give every home in the country an entitlement to # 6,500 - worth of immediate energy efficiency improvements, paid for from the savings that people make on their fuel bills?

This speech, the knife crime action plan and the measures on fuel duty really do underline the fact that it is the Conservatives who are coming up with the sensible ideas and principles on which policy detail will be built in the run - up to the election.

The measures include the closure of high - risk fuel stations which is ongoing, the cessation of the construction of new fuel stations to allow for proper safety audit, and the implementation of the cylinder re-circulation policy expected to happen within a year.

That's a policy that can generate huge revenues, which can then be put into clean - energy research and development and programs to get more renewable fuels out there.

In August that hole was plugged: The fuel Appel makes, known officially as renewable diesel, received a subsidy of $ 1 per gallon from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which took effect in January.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks led to new requirements to safeguard spent fuel pools at U.S. reactors, but the overall policy toward the nuclear fuel cycle has been bound up in the fight over the proposed fuel repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which the Obama administration wants to terminate.

This process could help scientists and governments comply with the European Council Directive 2011 / 70 / EURATOM on the «responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste» which requires EU Member States to establish a dedicated policy, including the implementation of national programmes for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

Lacking improvements in fuel efficiency combined with a comprehensive mitigation policy, the report finds that transport emissions could double by 2050 from 6.7 gigatons of emitted carbon dioxide in 2010, which represents 22 percent of the world's total.

This is according to the government's ambitious energy policy goals, which are driven by various well - known reasons: fossil fuels such as oil and gas are running out, becoming more and more expensive and are bad for the environment.

«Wetlands are vulnerable to over-exploitation due to their abundance of fish, fuel and water,» reports the group, which works on the ground in 18 countries to educate the public and policymakers about the health of local wetlands and to advocate for better policies.

The California - based Energy and Policy Institute, which opposes fossil fuels, cited documents it obtained.

Not only did they recognize it, but they've come out with some very powerful policy statements targeting sugar, and recognizing that the metabolic syndrome, which is the soil out of which diabetes and heart disease rose, is fueled by insulin resistance.

But there's an argument to be made that the apogee of conservative social policy was actually in the 1990s, with tough - on - crime laws, which broke the back of a crack - fueled murder wave; welfare reform, which reined in government dependency; and education reform, which curbed monopoly power of the teachers» unions in our big cities.

Numerous studies have confirmed the so - called Bennett Hypothesis, put forward in 1987 by then — U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, which asserted that federal student aid policies were helping to fuel college tuition inflation.

Black students continue to be disciplined at school more often and more harshly than their white peers, often for similar infractions, according to a new report by Congress's nonpartisan watchdog agency, which counters claims fueling the Trump administration's efforts to re-examine discipline policies of the Obama administration.

But it's the false rhetoric of success that's fueling the propaganda machine which has successfully convinced a lot of policy makers to get on board with the drive to dismantle teachers» unions, privatize public schools, and turn teaching into testing.

These comments, along with reports in the national press that the Obama administration is ready to address some of the most grievous problems in federal education policy, have continued to fuel speculation about forthcoming changes in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is known as «No Child Left Behind.»

This study uses a life cycle costing (LCC) methodology to identify when hydrogen can become economically feasible compared to the conventional fuels and which energy policy is the most effective at fostering the penetration of hydrogen in the competitive fuel market.

As it stands, developed economies are in different stages of the cycle (Japan and Europe versus everybody else), and that is fuelling policy divergence, which will create discrepancies in relative valuations in a global context.

And after Rick Perry's first policy speech as Energy Secretary we now know which energy stocks will keep on going in today's new reality - fracking, mining and exporting fossil fuels overseas.

Examples of this plan include a no touch policy through to the construction of a snorkelling and diving pontoon which is powered by dry cell batteries rather than a generator which eliminates noise pollution, fumes and the possibility of a fuel and oil spillage.

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

Now climate research has become entwined with energy policy and the brutal politics of fossil fuels, in which states» stances largely are shaped by the presence or absence of coal or industries reliant on coal or oil for profits.

Policy is how to go about reducing the use of fossil fuels which are producing the extra CO2.

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.

Earlier this month, The Center for Media Democracy published the Trump administration's energy agenda, which CMD said «outlines fourteen policies to be expected from President - elect Trump, which collectively amounts to a fossil fuel industry wish list and which would be devastating for attempts to slow climate change.»

«Along with new policies that spur competition in several other countries, this Chinese dynamic has led to record - low announced prices of solar PV and onshore wind, which are now comparable or even lower than new - built fossil fuel alternatives.

Even in the EU, which has the most organized climate policy, cap - and - trade prices have been under $ 2 / ton while fossil - fuel taxes (on gasoline) have simultaneously been above $ 200 / ton.

Paul Driessen, author of «Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death,» explains the vast difference between Real Sustainability, which implies wisely using our resources and always looking to innovate, and Politicized Sustainability, a radical policy that focuses on focuses on ridding the world of fossil fuels, regardless of any social, economic, environmental, or human costs of doing so — and regardless of whether supposed alternatives really are eco-friendly and sustainable.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

Part of the idea behind this policy is to sustainably source fuel from forests which pose a wildfire risk if their growth is kept unchecked.

A key question for understanding future impacts of particles and for the development of cost - effective control policies is the extent to which atmospheric particulate matter can be controlled through regulation of fossil fuel combustion against a background of OSCs.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many states.

The EU has so far continued to align itself with historic polluters like the USA and Australia, blocking progress towards a conflict of interest policy which could protect the UN climate talks from the harmful influence of fossil fuel corporations and their lobbyists, who have been delaying and weakening progress on effective climate action.

The model, which captures fuel use in the power, transport, and other energy sectors out to 2030, with fuel responsiveness parameterized to empirical literature, estimates the impacts of mitigation policies on CO2 emissions, revenue, premature deaths from local air pollution, household and industry groups.

The coalition has been urging the Council to introduce a more ambitious and timely carbon «fee - and - rebate» policy, which would put a fee on fossil fuel energy and re-invest the revenue into the D.C. community with rebates to residents and strategic investments in clean energy solutions.