Sentences with phrase «good energy policy»

In Las Vega $ yesterday, Citibank Mucky Muck and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin showed up at the National Clean Energy Summit to give a keynote speech on our floundering economy and how a good energy policy can help alleviate the problems.

Poor air quality: good energy policies can help save lives International experts advise IEA on forthcoming World Energy Outlook special report 10 March 2016

The Heartland Institute is gathering the country's best energy policy experts, as well as key players in the industry, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas on Thursday, November 9, 2017, for its America First Energy Conference.

of course... except for the right - wing republican base... everybody in the world has a better energy policy than george bush.

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Jenkins wrote on Twitter that Germany's shift in energy policy was misguided and resulted effectively in fossil fuels replacing much of the missing nuclear power — a pattern that's playing out at home, as well.

Andrew Leach is an environmental economist, energy enthusiast and a passionate advocate for good environmental policy.

While McClendon's own life was cut short, he left a legacy that will shape American energy policy — for better or for worse — for years to come.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis speaks to Mohammed Barkindo, OPEC secretary general, about Trump administration energy policies, as well as global oil supply.

However, First Solar is incredibly well positioned for the long term, no matter what direction Trump chooses to take on its climate and energy policy.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

The principles and practices captured in our corporate documents and policies, as well as the culture of integrity that can not be fully captured in them, are central to our ongoing ability to provide energy, high - quality jobs, shareholder returns and tax revenues that fund public policy.

It's also giving the fossil fuels sector whiplash from a White House whose energy policies have otherwise been very good to them, from starting to undo greenhouse gas regulations to opening more public land to mining and drilling and tax cuts.

In short, bad policy could mildly slow coal's decline, good policy could radically accelerate it, but no policy could stop or reverse it, short of nationalizing the energy sector.

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

One forum for this type of discussion is the April 2013 Pacific Energy Summit, co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the U.S. - based National Bureau of Asian Research, that will bring together private sector, government and policy leaders from a number of Asian countries, as well as the United States and Canada, to discuss how to forge trans - Pacific co-operation for this new energEnergy Summit, co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the U.S. - based National Bureau of Asian Research, that will bring together private sector, government and policy leaders from a number of Asian countries, as well as the United States and Canada, to discuss how to forge trans - Pacific co-operation for this new energyenergy era.

Concerns over energy - induced weakness in headline PCE, as well as non-oil import prices» pass - through impacts on Core PCE had dominated recent Federal Reserve policy deliberations.

However, sensing a dramatic shift in U.S. monetary policy, as well as market fundamentals, Charles chose instead to devote his energies to gold and silver.

If Romney wants a running mate who can explain how Republican policies can lower health care premiums, increase jobs, lower energy prices, get government to work better for less money, and maintain the safety net for our elderly while avoiding huge tax increases, then Jindal is the guy.

And it's an economic view of liberty that leads us to believe that, because economic policy can manufacture productivity better than political liberty can facilitate it, we should pour our energies into shaping and implementing economic policies.

The guide uses best practices from multiple sources including industry, academic and government experts to address water conservation and efficiency, water quality protection, soil conservation and management, air quality protection, human resource management, energy conservation and efficiency, integrated pest management, weather monitoring and preventive planning, selection of appropriate insurance policies and tools, and proactive business planning and management.

Mr Cook said good cane supply, a highly energy efficient sugar mill and certainty in government policy provided the impetus for the project.

«The government is breaking the law with its plans to fast - track a solar industry kill - off - as well as jeopardising thousands of jobs and countless clean energy projects across the country,» policy and campaigns director Craig Bennett said.

The best case for nuclear having no place in a future UK energy policy is not made by considering whether it is safe as an energy source, because, by and large, it is.

«Because we have environmental, energy and economic recovery policy that all work in tandem, and when you sweep those dollars away, you're not going to do the transformational pieces that get us to a better outcome.»

«Policy makers at every level of government need to look at all opportunities to lower energy costs and create well - paying jobs,» he said in a statement.

He pointed to the unfolding situation in Yemen and the Middle East in saying anything that makes the United States more energy secure is good policy.

Labour had good policies on many of these: raising the minimum wage, promoting the living wage, ending exploitative zero - hours contracts, freezing energy bills, funding the NHS and building 200,000 new homes each year.

Cameron has still not found a good response to Miliband's energy price policy though, and describing it as «incredible» may not have been wise.

He criticised current energy policy, saying «we may as well be burning # 50 notes outside our front doors».

He, however, claimed that Ghana would have been better off in the energy sector if the erstwhile Kufuor administration had continued with the energy policy of the Rawlings administration.

When he entered Congress, Tonko said he wanted to focus on the issue he said he knows best — energy policy.

The education department crosses into energy policy with energy service contracts as well as through a solar initiative to put solar panels in schools.

Some of these initiatives include, the Better Buffalo Fund; Upstate Revitalization Initiative; an enhanced historic preservation tax credit; land banks legislation; zombie properties reforms; brownfield redevelopment reforms; Complete Streets law and funding; Community Risk & Resiliency Act; Age Friendly / Health Across All Policies; Cleaner Greener and Clean Energy Communities; Climate - Smart Communities grants; and craft beverage reforms.

So a realistic look at the international policy dynamics that currently exist, as well as an informed discussion on where those policies could grow to be, is a great way to continue the conversation on actionable solutions to climate change,» said Subhashree Mishra, 2014 - 16 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Energy (DOE).

Daniel is Science's senior correspondent in the United Kingdom, covering astronomy, physics, and energy stories as well as European policy.

Better to bring that vigour to bear on a wider debate aimed at shedding light on the nature of a truly sustainable energy policy for the UK — and, for that matter, the world.

The surveys found some challenges to implementation, calling for policies and infrastructure that would make energy usage data easily accessible for students» learning as well as for broader sharing with other schools.

She works on a range of nuclear policy and natural gas issues as well as on systems integration and analysis for the Quadrennial Energy Review.

«Before policy makers can integrate energy considerations into food security interventions, it is necessary to consider the state of wood fuel research and how it might be expanded to better serve social needs,» Mendum said.

Policy instruments promoting bioenergy demand interact to various degrees with both renewable energy and forest policies, while supply side instruments, as well as implementation aspects, interact most closely with forest policies.

I also support policies to better utilize U.S. energy resources in a responsible and cost effective manner.

That is why President Obama has fought hard to advance the policies that will reduce our reliance on oil and other fossil fuels, increase our production of clean energy and create good - paying jobs that can never be outsourced.

To harness the energy already generated by the March for Science, «clear, science - based messages must be presented repeatedly to both those making policy and to the broader public, and these messages should focus on the value of scientific knowledge that results from well - funded research,» added Rovito.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

«I see it as a best level effort, and hopefully with continued movement in the right direction, we'll be able to get there,» says Jeffery Greenblatt, a greenhouse gas policy analyst in the lab's Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division.

Continued investigation of this research may have strong implications for policy makers, public health professionals and school administrators to consider simple and sustainable environmental changes in classrooms that can effectively increase energy expenditure and physical activity as well as enhance cognitive development and education outcomes.

Speaking about the policy options emerging from the four regional assessments, Watson said: «Although there are no «silver bullets» or «one - size - fits all» answers, the best options in all four regional assessments are found in better governance, integrating biodiversity concerns into sectoral policies and practices (e.g. agriculture and energy), the application of scientific knowledge and technology, increased awareness and behavioural changes.»

Picks reflect the incoming administration's promised commitment to science as well as shifts in current energy and environment policies

Ultimately, getting energy policy right translates into environmental and national security improvements as well as economic development.