Sentences with phrase «global warming bills say»
Industry lobbyists and members of Congress who are engaged in writing energy and global warming bills say they are well aware of the E.P.A. process bearing down on them.
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He features a video on his official Assembly website, in which he argues against a bill to curb global warming pollution, saying it would create a «burden» on businesses, and is better left to the federal government to regulate.
You've said before that global warming is the «bill for our great prosperity» — that everything has a price.
Congress is still far from passing any bill since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said in January 2007 that global - warming legislation would be a top priority.
, now the head of the nonpartisan think tank Resources for the Future, said today that he is not ready to rule out action in Congress on a global warming bill.
«NASA's primary purpose is human space exploration and directing NASA funds to study global warming undermines our ability to maintain our competitive edge in human space flight,» said Republican Congressman Bill Posey last month.
When asked who has inspired him in his research and thinking about climate change and global warming, Roddy said: «I have been inspired by Mark Lynas» book «Six Degrees», the IPCC reports and supporting studies by Bill McKibben, Harte, and images of what future survivors cities might look like.
Bill Blakemore on Aug. 30, 2006 said, «After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such (scientific) debate on global warming.»
«This was a political statement,» said Frank Maisano, representing the Business Coalition on Global Warming, who predicted widespread opposition to the bill.
«The $ 1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill President Trump signed last week includes a record amount of funding to prepare communities for future extreme weather events that scientists say are being exacerbated by the impacts of global warming.»
Unfortunately, when scientists say «we COULD all die in the next five minutes because of global warming», the politicians have a nasty habit of making it hard for me to pay my heating bill.
PARIS (Reuters)- A climate change deal is needed not just to ward off global warming, but to ensure a shift from increasingly costly fossil fuels that could lead to a doubling of energy bills, the IEA's chief economist said on Tuesday.
«This effort to solve global warming puts to rest all the excuses for doing nothing: This bill is bipartisan, it achieves environmental goals by encouraging innovation and American ingenuity, and its flexible approach is supported by industry,» said Mark Van Putten, president of the National Wildlife Federation.
The bill «marks an end to stalling and the start of the search for serious solutions to the global warming problem,» said Fred Krupp, president of the conservation group Environmental Defense.
The committee said a more stringent target than the 60 per cent cut currently in the Climate Change Bill was needed, because new information suggested the dangers of global warming were greater than previously thought.
In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.
Others, including rotating EU president and Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren say they welcome the proposals already made in the Waxman - Markey bill, but that the U.S. must commit to even greater reductions in carbon emissions if global warming is to be combated.
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Author and climate activist Bill McKibben says that if we want to put the brakes on global warming, it's time to put our bodies on the line.
Marchant Wentworth, UCS's legislative representative for clean energy said the bill «makes a down payment on reducing the threat of global warming.»
Such a fee, they said, would be linked to a mechanism for pricing carbon dioxide pollution permits in the electric power sector as part of a global warming bill.