Sentences with phrase «law curbing emissions»

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The new climate law set targets for curbing greenhouse gas emissions and ramping up clean energy production.

Many Warsaw delegates say the 2015 accord looks likely to be a patchwork of national pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, anchored in domestic legislation, after Copenhagen failed to agree a sweeping treaty built on international law.

There's no realistic possibility of passing new laws to curb US greenhouse gas emissions — Republican control of the House of Representatives will see to that.

The challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

The announcement reflects Congress's refusal to pass serious laws to curb greenhouse - gas emissions.

Our best shot at passing a law to reign in carbon emissions and curb fossil fuel use has failed in Congress.

But opponents argue that even testing could have harmful impacts, that there are questions of ethics and international law that remain unanswered, and that even raising the prospect of geoengineering distracts from initiatives to curb emissions.

Clearly, a first priority will be drastically reducing GHG emissions to slow the onset of acidification; a more comprehensive set of laws aimed at curbing overfishing, pollution and resource extraction (amongst other human activities) will need to be implemented in a way to ensure that local and regional authorities are sufficiently empowered to act.