Sentences with phrase «leader on climate legislation»

«Yes I do [think George Bush has been a good leader on climate legislation] because I think he has tried to let the science evolve, tried to encourage the technology, tried to incorporate a global dialog around this issue.»

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«With the U.S. Senate's recent failure to act on comprehensive energy and climate legislation, we need strong environmental leaders at the state level to move the ball forward on new energy policies that will put America on the path to a clean energy future.»

Jason Grumet, the Obama campaign's lead energy and environment advisor, has indicated that the president - elect plans to move quickly on getting climate change legislation through in 2009 and working to make the U.S. a leader on mitigating global warming.

But with little to no movement on climate change legislation in Congress, the responsibility to tackle transportation's contribution has fallen on state and local leaders.

In a letter sent to Senate leaders on 24 February and released earlier this week by the Massachusetts - based Woods Hole Research Center, 65 scientists warned that «this well - intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate change much worse.»

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

It looks like Democratic leaders in the Senate, searching for a breakthrough on climate and energy legislation, are circling back a decade to the Bush plan.

House Democratic leaders, facing solid opposition from Republicans to any «cap and trade» climate bill, are having to rely on fellow Democrats to win passage of legislation this year.

Whether or not it ever gets built will depend on how serious GM is about becoming a leader in green vehicle design; future climate legislation (namely, the price we put on carbon); hydrogen infrastructure, and how that hydrogen is made; the cost of fuel cells; and the cost of batteries.

Taking this «can do» approach to environmental and social issues, Timberland plans to leverage the Don't Tell Us It Can't Be Done petition to implore world leaders to come to an agreement on fair and binding climate legislation that clearly sets a limit for greenhouse gas emissions; and then to ask them to «step aside and let businesses innovate and lead the way to finding solutions to achieve those limits.»

Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican from South Carolina that is working with Sens. Kerry and Lieberman on climate and energy legislation, has threatened to withdraw his support from his own legislation if Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid doesn't prioritize the climate bill.

There are now estimated to be around 2,340 climate lobbyists in Washington — more than one for every four members of Congress.The Climate Change Lobby With Obama asking Congress to send him legislation that places a cap on carbon emissions, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aiming to have a global warming bill ready by the end of the summer, those 2,340 voices will undoubtedly make the going rough foclimate lobbyists in Washington — more than one for every four members of Congress.The Climate Change Lobby With Obama asking Congress to send him legislation that places a cap on carbon emissions, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aiming to have a global warming bill ready by the end of the summer, those 2,340 voices will undoubtedly make the going rough foClimate Change Lobby With Obama asking Congress to send him legislation that places a cap on carbon emissions, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aiming to have a global warming bill ready by the end of the summer, those 2,340 voices will undoubtedly make the going rough for both.