Sentences with phrase «mandatory federal emissions»
The favourites for the two parties» nominations, Mr McCain and Hillary Clinton, both favour mandatory federal emissions controls.
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During that same period, these companies spent $ 45 million on ads for clean coal and $ 125 million in lobbying dollars to defeat a national renewable energy standard and federal legislation to place mandatory limits on CO2 emissions.
«We believe and support a mandatory federal program to manage carbon emissions that does exactly that.»
Though it opposed Lieberman - Warner, Lucas says, ACCCE supports «a timely adoption of a mandatory federal program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.»
Some greens in other countries tend to write America off because it chose not to ratify the Kyoto protocol, because the federal government has consistently refused to adopt a mandatory system for restricting emissions, and because American public opinion is relatively indifferent to global warming (see chart 5).