Sentences with phrase «house gases act»

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Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

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By conserving land, protecting forests for carbon storage and absorption of green house gas emissions, and actively managing our lands for climate resiliency we can act as a model for statewide organizations and land trusts.

Earlier this year, the US House of Representatives select committee on energy independence and global warming received a number of letters opposing the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would set limits on the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

But the White House argued that rising carbon dioxide levels worsen the allergens and pollutants that sensitize people to asthma, and that cutting greenhouse gases also cuts particulate pollution, making a compelling case for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under its health mandate in the Clean Air Act.

Those chemicals also act as potent greenhouse gases, so the agreement also makes him the negotiator of one of the most effective global climate treaties ever, despite being part of an administration that famously removed solar technology from the White House roof.

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) today applauded House passage of a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act of a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule to regulate methane venting and flaring from oil and gas operations on public lands.

It's not long before the house starts having some sort of weird influence on the family, Overlook - like, inspiring Ben to try to drown David (acting out the desires of the entire audience); inspiring Aunt Elizabeth to try to gas David (acting out the... oh, never mind); and getting Marion just a little too attached to the house and the forever unseen lady in the attic.

In fact, a 2008 energy blueprint released by House Republicans, the «American Energy Act,» included the concept of a trust fund for advanced technology research funded by oil and gas royalties.

The agency's finding — which the White House will now review — comes in response to an April 2007 Supreme Court decision that greenhouse - gas emissions could be regulated under the Clean Air Act if the EPA determines they pose a threat to public health and welfare.

The «Clean Air Act» needs to be amended: as reads «Green House Gases», amend to read «'' Green House Gases except CO2».

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a «finding» to the White House Office of Management and Budget that will force the Obama administration to decide whether to limit greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

Thirteen major US companies today took the White House's «American Business Act on Climate» pledge to slash their greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change.

Remember this is the very architect of our current energy policy, the man who steered the suicidally expensive Climate Change Act through Parliament; the man who even this week pledged to decarbonise the entire British economy (not just the electricity sector) by 2030, meaning that nobody will be permitted to heat their house with gas.

Take a look at some of the bills the House GOP is pushing: The «Lowering Gasoline Prices to Fuel an America That Works Act of 2014,» HR 4899, prioritizes oil and gas development over any other uses of America's public lands, be they conservation, hunting, hiking, wildlife habitat, or historic preservation.

CO2 should be excluded from the scope of «Green House Gasses» (GHG) in the Clean Air Act.

That emailed version said greenhouse gases could indeed endanger human health and welfare — a finding that would trigger a regulatory rescue (a regulatory train wreck, said the White House) by the EPA under the Clean Air Act.

The Clean Air Act allows White House and U.S. Department of State officials to negotiate bilaterally with China on significant greenhouse - gas cuts.

They just need to pass a law, both houses, avoiding the filibuster, that says, «The Clean Air Act does not apply to greenhouse gases.»

But assuming that Congress does not eliminate (save as part of a carbon - tax deal) EPA's greenhouse gas authority under the Clean Air Act - which would severely hinder future Democratic Administrations, as they would need to control both houses to restore it - the ability of a Trump Administration to set back U.S. climate progress is going to be limited.

The Environmental Protection Agency's new leadership, in a step toward confronting global warming, submitted a finding that will force the White House to decide whether to limit greenhouse gas emissions under the nearly 40 - year - old Clean Air Act.

Dealing with Congress and federal agencies, Mr. Bookbinder helped lead efforts on both global warming legislation and greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act, and has testified in front of House and Senate committees on these issues (and may be the only person ever invited by both Barbara Boxer and James Inhofe).

The New York Times recently shed light on yet another important aspect of gas drilling leases, that U.S. Department of Agriculture rural housing loans are being routinely granted on properties with oil and gas leases using a so - called «categorical exclusion» from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), although such exclusions are only supposed to apply to properties without environmental risks.