Not exact matches
With plans for a budget
cap set to be outlined at an F1 Strategy Group
meeting next week, it could be that the outcome of that
meeting ends up addressing the concerns.
«We're right on the cusp,» she told the board members, who will be asked to
set a November 1 public hearing for the tax
cap override discussion at their next
meeting on Wednesday, October 11.
The Southold Town Board unanimously passed a $ 44 million preliminary budget at its
meeting Tuesday night,
setting up the proposal — which pierces the tax
cap and raises the tax rate by 7.57 percent — for public hearings next month.
The tax
cap for local governments will be
set at under 1 percent yet again, raising concerns among municipal officials over how to make ends
meet.
If the initial
cap is
set high enough, and allows for a rate of inflation based on actual medical costs, which is higher than the average rate of inflation, then the state could be able to
meet its costs to cover health care for people on Medicaid who obtained coverage under Obamacare.
Soon after Barack Obama was elected president, congressional climate change advocates
set their sights on passing a
cap - and - trade bill in time for him to bring a firm U.S.commitment on emissions reductions to this week's climate
meeting in Copenhagen.
Shop at non-toxic boutiques: Natural beauty boutiques like Follain, Credo Beauty,
CAP Beauty, and even Whole Foods have developed their own
set of production standards and banned ingredients, and will carry a range of brands and products that
meet their criteria.
Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to
meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2)
setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a
cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and
setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.
To enable trading, rules are established that allow those entities with
caps to
meet their obligations either by purchasing unneeded allowances from others that have
caps, funding projects that reduce emissions at places under the control of others, or purchasing off -
sets created by carbon reduction projects somewhere in the world.
Any company that failed to
meet the emissions limits
set by the bill would be fined for each ton of greenhouse gases over the
cap at the rate of three times the market value of a ton of greenhouse gas.
Korea's newly announced ETS means it could
meet its pledge if the
cap is
set tightly enough and the remaining open rules are
set in the right way.
The bill
sets a goal, rather than a
cap, on emissions at 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, and if the goal for the first five years is not
met, the tax automatically increases by an additional $ 5 per metric ton.