Sentences with phrase «of global warming legislation»

«Some supporters of global warming legislation believe that the division in the once - monolithic oil and gas industry, as well as other splits among energy producers, could improve the prospects for the legislation.»

Mar blocked Maryland global warming Bill Alberta's representative in Washington DC Gary Mar helped stop a piece of global warming legislation in the State of Maryland in 2009.

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Overall, the group is pressing for final passage of climate legislation during this Congress because delays will make it more difficult to avoid the most severe effects of global warming.

The study found that none of the «dismissive» group — those who don't think the climate is changing or want legislation — believe global warming will harm the United States in 50 years.

Pelosi is also expected to have help from the House Ways and Means Committee and several other panels that are holding hearings and considering legislation on the twin issues of global warming and energy policy.

Congress is still far from passing any bill since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said in January 2007 that global - warming legislation would be a top priority.

, who once called global warming a «hoax» and was one of the loudest opponents against climate legislation last year, posted a blog last month mentioning recent cold weather events.

After the failure of federal climate legislation in Congress this year, the fate of California's law was viewed as a US turning point — either away from addressing global warming or toward stronger action to curb greenhouse gases.

Telephone surveys were conducted among voters who live in the congressional districts of six members of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee (which will be considering new global warming emissions legislation in the fall).

introduced legislation directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the environmental impact of black carbon and the most cost - effective ways to reduce its emissions to improve public health and reduce global warming.

I have high hopes President Barack Obama, from my home State of Illinois, will change all that and proceed to execute many promised political reforms in Washington, D. C. High on his list should be implementing immediate and effective Congressional legislation about the consequences of human - induced, global warming and climate change.

An unfortunate aspect of economic analyses of the impacts of carbon pricing is that they usually only consider the costs of such legislation, while ignoring the benefits associated with slowing global warming.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

And what about the supposed realities of «global warming» that this legislation is supposed to prevent?

Dan Lashof, director of the Climate Center for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, «The emerging consensus in the House Energy and Commerce Committee lays the critical foundation for Congress to enact legislation this year that will spur clean energy investments and cut carbon pollution that causes global warming.»

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

When the citizens of China and India become more Westernized and then begin demanding clean air legislation, global warming will really take off.

Note: This an October 2014 blog post about an oil industry PR campaign against the implementation of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, part of California's global warming legislation.

Second, the story quote «Opponents of CA's landmark global warming legislation AB32 — led by Texas oil giant Valero and other out - of - state oil interests — recently spent nearly $ 2 million dollars...» shows that oil companies themselves are getting involved with legislation that regulates electricity generation.

How much of this fortune is related, directly or indirectly, to your advocacy of legislation to reduce «global warming»?

The most one could say is that these sorts of groups have opposed specific legislation, such as carbon taxes or drilling bans, that Brulle wants politicians to enact into law.50 This opposition may explain a lot about Brulle's motivations, and it definitely shows that he's more interested in political victories than science, but it says nothing about how Americans form their views of the science of Global Warming.

With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.

Months after federal cap - and - trade legislation died in the Senate and days before California voters will decide on a fiercely fought ballot initiative to deep - freeze the state's global - warming - prevention law, state regulators released hundreds of pages of rules on Friday for how the law is to be applied, industry by industry.

«Any climate change legislation must prevent the export of jobs and related greenhouse gas emissions to countries that fail to take actions to combat the threat of global warming comparable to those taken by the United States,» they said.

The impact of the Climategate story on the public discourse over global warming legislation is an interesting tale that will be in flux for the foreseeable future.

The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming now says it has confirmed 13 fake letters to members of Congress apparently from old people's centres and Latino and African - American groups opposing climate change legislation.

But the defeat of federal climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate policy.

The Utah House of Representatives approved a resolution yesterday that questions global warming and calls on the federal government to not proceed with legislation regulating carbon dioxide emissions.

The two will unveil legislation Wednesday designed to radically reduce the production of fossil fuels, which they say is necessary to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.

«New Mexico's Democrats / Liberals Push Global Warming Legislation: Oops, New Mexico Is Cooling At -5.1 ° Per Century Rate Main Liberals / Democrats Stunned To Learn Glaciers Started Melting 100 + Years Before 1980: Not Aware of Little Ice Age End!»

The legislation's prominent defenders, like CAP's Joseph Romm, labeled green critics of the bill «global warming deniers» and told anyone who would listen that Waxman and Markey had pulled a fast one on the coal lobby.

Conversely, politicians using catastrophic global warming as the basis for legislation have «camouflaged controversial policy decisions as science,» a trend that George Washington University's Susan Dudley calls the «scientization» of politics.

The legislation is entirely based on the agency's finding, in 2009, that key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere «threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations» — because of their contribution to global warming.

Legislation to use the pollution credits approach to curb global warming passed the Democratic - controlled House in 2009, with the support of Obama.

These, and their community of blog commenters, are the global warming contrarians that formed the peer - to - peer review network and helped bring chaos to Copenhagen — critically wounding the prospects of cap - and - trade legislation in the process.

The irony is that the obscure piece of legislation that slipped through when Clinton and Gore weren't minding the store is about to throw the USNA and its global warming hysteria into its well - deserved dustbin.

While comprehensive climate and energy legislation has thus far failed to pass the United States Congress, there are a series of vital programs and strategies underway in the United States to reduce global warming emissions, such as:

It has adopted some of the strongest legislation in Oceania to fight global warming, «making it compulsory for state sectors, including those responsible for the environment, disaster management, transportation, infrastructure, health, education and finance, to mainstream climate adaptation in all policies and action plans,» according to the Inter Press Service.

The House legislation, entitled the «Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment Act of 2010,» was cosponsored by House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Ed Markey (D - MA), Rep. Judy Biggert (R - IL), Rep. Anna Eshoo (D - CA), and Rep. Jerry McNerney (D - CA).

«Luetkemeyer's legislation would prohibit U.S. contributions to the IPCC, which is nothing more than a group of U.N. bureaucrats that supports man - made claims on global warming that many scientists disagree with... Meanwhile, our very own Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that we are undergoing a period of worldwide cooling.»

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (February 12, 2018)-- The Massachusetts Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change, led by Senator Marc Pacheco (Taunton) and Sen. Jamie Eldridge (Acton), introduced clean energy legislation today, a revised version of S479.

The two senators worked with both industry and conservation groups as they designed the legislation, attempting to craft an approach that would address the concerns of American businesses while taking positive steps toward reducing global warming.

Democrats and the Obama administration will attempt just about every falsehood and any misrepresentation in efforts to pass some form of the global warming, cap and trade, energy legislation.

The state's AB 32 legislation, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires a reduction in state GHG emissions by 2020 to its 1990 level of 431 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent per year (MtCO2e / year).

The legislation in Congress that it backed in the name of fighting global warming contained ethanol subsidies, even though ethanol subsidies have been linked to famine, hunger, food riots, and political unrest in poor countries.

In a backward leap of anti-Copernican proportions, North Carolina's state legislature recently passed what may be the nation's first state - wide global warming denial legislation.

Crichton reportedly met with President Bush last year after the president «avidly read» the novel, «fueling a common perception among environmental groups that Crichton's dismissal of global warming... has undermined efforts to pass legislation intended to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,» according to the International Herald Tribune.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

«Geoengineering holds forth the promise of addressing global warming concerns for just a few billion dollars a year,» wrote Newt Gingrich in an attack on proposed cap - and - trade legislation back in 2008.

Dealing with Congress and federal agencies, Mr. Bookbinder helped lead efforts on both global warming legislation and greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act, and has testified in front of House and Senate committees on these issues (and may be the only person ever invited by both Barbara Boxer and James Inhofe).