Sentences with phrase «limit on carbon»

«While the limit on carbon emissions would help move the nation toward clean energy, direct funding for renewables is critical to accelerate the transformation,» the group released in a statement.

Friends of the Earth called the bill «dangerous,» saying it gives too many concessions to the nuclear and coal industries to gain support for a limit on carbon emissions.

RGGI sets a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from the electric sector and raises money for renewables and efficiency by charging polluting generators for each ton of carbon dioxide they emit.

These benefits are a result of RGGI's market - based, cap - and - invest approach, which sets an annually declining limit on carbon pollution while enabling the power sector to achieve the reductions flexibly at least cost.

Accelerating the clean energy technology we need for long - term decarbonization requires a price and limit on carbon, a trigger for a worldwide market correction that benefits clean energy.

There are a number of important takeaways from the report, like establishing a limit on carbon emissions before the world crashes through 2 °C of warming.

Current proposals are to set a limit on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse - gas emissions by issuing permits that limit those emissions to entities like power and industrial plants.

It also lends support to the US Environmental Protection Agency, which last week proposed a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from new coal - fired and gas - fired power plants.

Such a scheme would impose a limit on the carbon emissions that a company can release.

New UN-agreed limits on carbon emissions from shipping don't go far or fast enough, especially as we already have the tech to make shipping carbon - free

Setting up limits on carbon emissions and subsidizing alternative energy is the wrong approach, «The Hartwell Paper» argues.

Instead it has set future limits on carbon intensity — the amount of greenhouse gases emitted per unit of GDP.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

[21] In Mr. Bush's case, a campaign pledge to require limits on carbon dioxide pollution from power plants was abandoned just two months into his first term.

The same timetable is likely to hold true for actions to curtail global warming, said Mr. Boehlert, one of a small but growing minority of Republican officials seeking limits on carbon dioxide along with other air kinds of air pollution.

Another case for a sensible war on coal is this new analysis by Synapse Energy Economics of the much - lauded NRDC plan that proposed a state - by - state approach to setting limits on carbon pollution.

Proposed actions include the development and finalization of EPA standards that set limits on carbon emissions for both new and existing power plants, improved energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and increased deployment of renewable energy.

The two, Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, said the United States should set limits on carbon dioxide emissions, much like those Mr. Bush rejected.

In 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized America's Clean Power Plan, the first - ever limits on carbon pollution from US power plants.

At the same time, renewable energy technology is improving and becoming cheaper; regional and municipal governments are adopting limits on carbon dioxide emissions; and carmakers around the world are working to make electric cars and batteries more efficient and affordable.

These companies, which include some of the world's biggest producers and users of fossil fuels, have concluded that limits on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse, or heat - trapping, gases are inevitable.

For example, nine states in the Northeast, as part of a regional cap - and - trade program that sets overall limits on carbon and then allows states to trade permits to pollute, have committed to cut emissions by 45 percent during the next year and by another 2.5 percent a year after that until 2020.

It would set overall limits on carbon dioxide pollution, but would allow companies to pollute more by paying for it and buying pollution credits from cleaner companies.

He instead focused on his attacks on the Clean Power Plan, which set the first - ever national limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that contribute to climate change.

«We are pleased to see significant health benefits from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed limits on carbon pollution from power plants, which would reduce the burden of air pollution in America, prevent up to 4,000 premature deaths and 100,000 asthma attacks in the first year they are in place, and prevent up to 6,600 premature deaths and 150,000 asthma attacks in 2030.

Together with a final rule setting standards for new power plants, EPA will create the first nationwide limits on carbon emissions from coal and and natural gas power plants, the largest source of emissions in the US economy.

The results echo a similar study undertaken by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, which found that Americans «support setting strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal - fired plants,» by a nearly 2 - to - 1 margin — «even if the cost of electricity to consumers and companies increases.»

Rud, when I talk to those of the Progressive Left who are most concerned about climate change, and who want the United States to become the leader in finding ways to reduce carbon emissions, they pretty much go silent when I inform them that the EPA has legal authority under the Clean Air Act and the 2009 Endangerment Finding to do much more in placing limits on carbon emissions than the agency is actually doing.

Market forces are combining with the prospect of new limits on carbon emissions from major economies such as China and the United States to prick the carbon bubble.

over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

«The Environmental Protection Agency's first - ever limits on carbon pollution from new power plants are critically importan...

Published on YouTube Aug 7, 2013: Most Americans are surprised to learn that we currently have NO LIMITS on carbon pollution from power plants — but it's true.

Evidence of climate change was never going to drive Americans to demand painful limits on carbon.

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed its Clean Power Plan, the first - ever limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants.

Despite early knowledge about climate change, electric utilities have continued to invest heavily in fossil fuel power generation over the past half a century, and since 1988 some have engaged in ongoing efforts to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Yet the plan will set the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants, which account for 37 percent of total U.S. carbon emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday is expected to announce proposals for new limits on carbon emissions from existing power plants, which the agency says produce about two - fifths of the nation's emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide.

These are coal mining companies, after all; of course they are opposed to limits on carbon!

John P. Holdren, an energy and environment expert at Harvard and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science defended the more strident calls for limits on carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases.

In August, a bipartisan poll conducted for the League of Conservation Voters by Democratic pollster Hart Research Associates and Republican pollster Chesapeake Beach Consulting found that 60 percent of Americans support the Clean Power Plan, which would address climate change by placing the first - ever federal limits on carbon pollution from power plants.

One could infer that McI would have us believe that without this set of proxies all arguments for limits on carbon emissions are misguided.

(But, the modelers caution, those three goals wouldn't be sufficient; limits on carbon emissions would likely also prove necessary.

After decades of delaying any meaningful national climate policy, America was poised to finally enact moderate limits on carbon dioxide emissions from our nation's energy sector — but this executive order threatens to stop that progress in its tracks.

That includes work on its existing cap - and - trade limits on carbon dioxide.

The Clean Power Plan sets the nation's first - ever limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions — the primary contributor to global warming — from power plants.

The Obama administration proposed limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new US power plants Friday, taking a big step toward fulfilling a long - sought goal of fighting climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Last week, President Obama announced his plan to reduce carbon pollution in the United States, tasking the EPA with creating a strategy to set limits on carbon emissions from power plants by June 2014.

More than 500 solar industry leaders from hundreds of businesses issued a letter to the White House today, endorsing limits on carbon pollution from power plants and advocating that solar energy become a focal point of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan.

On August 3, 2015, the EPA released the final Clean Power Plan, which establishes the first - ever limits on carbon emissions from power plants — the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S.