What it will need to overcome, if it is to succeed, is a kind of «can't do» attitude that has developed over the years, which has made the agency timid about tackling any issue that is likely to prompt strong industry resistance and all too ready to accept unfounded industry claims about
the likely impact of regulations.
Not exact matches
In addition, improved market transparency and monitoring - for example, via more detailed disclosures
of market - maker inventories and risk - taking - could help market participants better understand which market segments or trades are
likely to be crowded.12 In addition, policymakers may want to assess how the combined
impact of regulations and other policy initiatives affect market - making and overall market robustness.
For very large schemes or proposals relating to sensitive sites, such as in the green belt, an environmental statement may be required to assess the
likely significant effects
of the development on the environment, pursuant to the Town and Country Planning (Environmental
Impact Assessment)(England)
Regulations 2011.
That firsthand knowledge makes our members some
of the best sources available for information on best practices and standard operating procedures as well as the
likely impact of proposed legislation and
regulations on our trade.
«In the circular reasoning that has become common in oilsands decision - making,» wrote the Pembina Institute's Director
of Oil Sands Jennifer Grant, «the Panel based its recommendation that the project be approved on the assumption that the rules would be strengthened, rather than on the
likely impacts of the project under existing
regulations.»
Post Reporter Juliet Eilperin claims: «As the real - world
impacts of climate change begin to materialize...
regulation of greenhouse gases appears more
likely» — September 23, 2009)
You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government
regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest
of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any
impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation
of all our carbon dioxide emissions would
likely result in a mitigation
of global temperature rise
of less than one - quarter
of a degree C by the end
of the century).
Two new federal air pollution
regulations are expected to spur the closure
of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions
of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey
of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis
of the
likely impacts on CO2 emissions.
Such speculation could
likely include not just an analysis
of the environmental changes, but their
impact on local
regulations and the worldwide geopolitical scene (i.e. political risks, international conflicts, the continued free flow
of goods, etc.).
When the draft
regulations were published in January
of this year, we worked with a broad range
of regional organizations, sub-sector umbrella organizations, individual charities, and interested outside parties to assess their
likely impact.