Sentences with phrase «largely decarbonize»

As I've demonstrated in other posts here on Climate Etc., the President and the EPA Administrator have the legal power and authority required to largely decarbonize America's economy, if they are willing to apply existing environmental law and regulation to the full extent the Clean Air Act not only allows, but also demands.

So the question naturally arises, why aren't the most prominent leaders of America's progressive left — Robert Kennedy Jr., Al Gore, Elizabeth Warren, Edward Markey, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, etc. etc. etc. — why aren't they all publicly demanding that President Obama and the EPA use the full legal authority the Executive Branch already has in its hands to largely decarbonize America's economy?

The President and the EPA Administrator already have the legal authority needed to largely decarbonize America's economy.

[W] hile the world is huddled in Paris to map out the treacherous route to decarbonization, one major industrial country has already largely decarbonized that most central of emissions sectors, [electrical] energy — namely, the host of those other 200 countries, France.

The President's existing climate action plan isn't anywhere nearly aggressive enough to achieve a 28 % reduction by 2025, let alone to make a reasonably good start at the task of largely decarbonizing the American economy by 2050.

This was primarily due to the low cost of decarbonizing coal - based electricity in the U.S. versus Canada's largely decarbonized electricity system and high costs of reducing emissions in the oil sands.

Not exact matches

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.