Sentences with phrase «limits on carbon»

His claim served as a rallying cry for his base supporters — many of whom believed that rejecting limits on carbon emissions would lead to a resurgence of US jobs in the coal industry.

California sets state limits on carbon emissions, he said, but «that shouldn't and can't dictate to the rest of the country what these levels are going to be.»

But the first ever limits on carbon from power plants in the United States is undoubtedly an important step.

5) And he says that the company, which also operates in the United States, is committed to embracing, not fighting, limits on carbon pollution.

Reuters: China and the United States agreed on Wednesday to new limits on carbon emissions starting in 2025, but the pledge by the world's two biggest polluters...

Proposed Environmental Protection Agency limits on carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants could do far more to constrain heat - trapping greenhouse gases than blocking Keystone XL.

In sharp contrast, Obama's advisor, Joseph Aldy, said his candidate continues to support limits on carbon dioxide emissions — and will push for them with or without the support of Congress.

The authors of the first two books under review have some doubts about a strategy that emphasizes limits on carbon emissions, Lomborg for economic reasons and Nordhaus and Shellenberger for political ones.

Fairbanks - area environmental activists say they're building on the momentum they generated two weeks ago during the local observance of the global People's Climate March.They're forming a local chapter of the national organization that headed - up the march to help lobby for limits on carbon emissions to reduce the impact of climate change.

The plan creates the nation's first federal limits on carbon pollution from US power plants, aiming to cut emissions by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, and gives states the flexibility to develop an emissions reduction strategy that works for them.

If curbing pollutants like arsenic, a known human carcinogen, is warranted, there is no excuse for our avoidance of placing limits on carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most responsible for climate change.

DEBORAH AMOS: These corporate leaders, motivated by the reality of climate change, the fear of state - by - state regulation and the hope of new business opportunities, wanted the federal government to impose mandatory limits on carbon.

Trump endorsed Ayotte after she announced her support for the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, despite his campaign pledge to «scrap» the EPA's first - ever limits on carbon pollution from power plants.

Because of the tight limits on carbon pollution called for in the proposed rule, using CCS would become the only way to build any new coal - fired power plants, a restriction coal advocates have said will effectively kill the industry.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.