Sentences with phrase «fuel the debate around»

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The YouTube shooting has added fuel to the fire surrounding the debate around gun control in the U.S., one that technology companies have been drawn into.

The debate centered around balancing the benefits of more affordable energy and the environmental consequences of extracting more fuel from the ground, especially under New York soil.

It will allow debate and discussion around issues such as the implementation of the new fuel poverty strategy in England which is taking effect from 2015, how we can reduce the health impacts of fuel poverty and will explore the effect of the changes to welfare reform.

Debate around the Tory manifesto focuses on death taxes, snuffed out winter fuel allowances and how much is Maggie May a Thatcherite.

In Britain most of the debate around risk has ignored food and fuel in favour of finance: reducing high levels of borrowing by households and the government and finding ways to stop banks from courting another disaster.

Over the past legislative session, the issue of divesting state pension funds of fossil fuel investments received considerable debate both in the State House and around Vermont.

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.

While there is around a one in 20 chance of a fire breaking out in a school, the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire has fuelled the debate about whether sprinklers should be mandatory in English schools

In the first weeks of this 10th anniversary year of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with global economic and political policies fueling conflict and prompting revolt, there have been numerous programs, talks, and debates around the city about walls: metaphorical walls created by censorship, physical walls dividing Israeli and Palestinian territories or Mexican borders, but also boundaries that some artists insist are essential to maintaining the integrity of cultural expression and identity.

Behind edge - driven debates, almost everyone I've met who's seriously pursuing a post-fossil energy future would like all of the above — more science literacy, more energy awareness, more energy access now for those in deep poverty, lower costs for energy all around and some kind of price on the most polluting fuels (see the Niskanen Center's «Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax» to see the breadth of support).

While our political leaders are running around debating cap and trade, emissions treaties, fracking, or worse yet just ignoring the fossil fuel problem, Amory Lovins and his dedicated gang at the Rocky Mountain Institute have quietly put together the manifesto for achieving the era of sustainable energy.

Yet moves by governments around the world to designate wood as a carbon - neutral fuel — making it eligible for beneficial treatment under tax, trade, and environmental regulations — have spurred fierce debate.

Mazza also addresses concerns around the food versus fuel debate, acknowledging that there is a very real concern when energy needs start to compete with the need of folks to eat, but he also points out that, contrary to recent headlines, fuels are hardly the only factor driving up the price of food:

DW: The rush around the world to plant crops used to produce biofuel has not only sparked a global food vs. fuel debate, but it's also putting biodiversity at risk.