Sentences with phrase «on carbon pollution»

Establish a price on carbon pollution for the companies responsible for a majority of the state's emissions.

Although we limit pollutants like mercury, sulfur and arsenic, there are currently no limits on carbon pollution from power plants, our nation's largest source.

Only taxes on carbon pollution from fossil fuels can create the clear, rapid, across - the - board incentives needed to propel a massive shift to clean alternatives.

For years there's been talk of a tax on carbon pollution as a way to fight global warming.

The best approach would be to use a market mechanism such as the sale of carbon allowances or a fee on carbon pollution to lower emissions and increase revenue.

So this feels like the perfect time for a reminder about the costs of climate change itself — the costs that smart regulations on carbon pollution will help us avoid.

While it's true models predict a range of warming depending on carbon pollution, that's hardly indicative that climate change impacts are «very hard» to predict.

Learn about the impacts of a price on carbon pollution on households, businesses, and the climate.

What's more, cap and trade may be the world's best hope in putting a global price on carbon pollution.

The entrenched power of the fossil - fuel industry and its political backers isn't all that stands in the way of taxes on carbon pollution.

Meanwhile, Canada dropped from seventh to eighth position in its ranking (France edged us out thanks in part to a proposed cap on carbon pollution).

Climate XChange and CABA came together in October 2016 largely over our common goal of enacting a price on carbon pollution in Massachusetts and beyond.

One reason might be that talk of a technical fix could distract from needed emissions cuts, especially with the U.S. Senate and international negotiators debating new controls on carbon pollution.

On transportation, the president rightly claims credit for accepting the California proposals on carbon pollution standards for cars, making them nationwide and expanding them.

«The Heartland Institute has been spearheading a «red team» campaign for the past six months to use Scopes Monkey Trial theatrics to undermine climate science and the EPA's endangerment finding on carbon pollution,» Kert Davies, director of the Climate Investigations Center, told HuffPost.

This new video is the first in a series of 4, advocating a price on carbon pollution as a means to tackle Climate Change.

«We've moved forward in a partnership way right across the country and we've demonstrated that we understand that the national interest involves getting our resources responsibly to new markets but it also involves, for example, putting a price on carbon pollution right across Canada.»

It finds that over the 20 years of a typical LNG contract, renewable power will quite possibly become cheaper than the LNG sales prices needed to justify the cost of LNG investments — and that's before factoring in a cost on carbon pollution.

, a leading climate skeptic who opposes restrictions on carbon pollution, argued that the administration could harm the U.S. economy by enacting new regulations particularly given the skyrocketing emissions of China and India, Kerry was quick with a challenge.

Diplomats are calling these negotiations «the best chance in a generation of striking a deal on global warming» according to the Guardian, with the US and China's commitment to work together on carbon pollution bringing fresh momentum.

«Putting a price on carbon pollution allows Australia to reduce its net emissions by at least 155 million tonnes (Mt) in 2020 and 390 Mt in 2030», claims the Minister's media release.

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.

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.

This report focuses on the carbon pollution that has been unlocked by the federal coal leasing program during the Obama administration, and calculates the damages expected from those emissions, using the federal government's social cost of carbon figures as suggested by the federal court ruling.

Instead of discouraging productive effort, initiative and investment as other tax burdens do, a tax on carbon pollution raises the cost of harmful activity and thereby encourages efficiency and renewable energy.

This includes limiting regional haze, cutting mercury emissions, and supporting limitations on carbon pollution.

Shortly after he took office, the White House seemed inconvenienced when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made climate change a top priority, moving swiftly to push a cap on carbon pollution through the House.

The Environmental Protection Agency is currently collecting public comments on their carbon pollution standards for new power plants.

This conference came on the heels of the big news that on Monday, October 3, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will establish a floor price on carbon pollution of $ 10 a tonne in 2018, rising to $ 50 a tonne by 2022.

The proposed carbon fee - and - rebate policy would place a fee on carbon pollution in the District and rebate a majority of revenue raised back to D.C. residents.

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 proposed «Climate and Community Reinvestment Act» would place a fee on carbon pollution in the District and rebate the large majority of revenue raised back to D.C. residents.

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

You do not need to believe that all climate science is settled or every prediction or model is perfect to understand the benefits of limiting pollution and transforming our energy policies — as a gradually declining cap on carbon pollution would do.

This is one reason to be skeptical of ad campaigns from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Mining Association trying to convince the public that the EPA's new regulations on carbon pollution from power plants, to be announced on June 2, will destroy the American economy.

But it was seized on by those who doubt the science behind climate change, and those who oppose controls on carbon pollution, to try to damage the credibility of the entire IPCC exercise.

«We're concerned that — for example — the forthcoming rules on carbon pollution could get weakened to the point where they don't really produce the changes in the energy sector that can and should be made,» says David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Framing taxes on carbon pollution as an embodiment of the «polluter pays» principle unites interests as diverse as environmental - justice advocates, free - market conservatives and classical economists.

We're ready to pass a price on carbon pollution in Massachusetts and beyond, make our communities more resilient to climate change, and push for bigger and bolder action every day.

Thanks largely to B.C. Premier Christy Clark's brinkmanship and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall's continued opposition, one part of the new agreement — putting a price on carbon pollution — dominated Friday's discussions.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

Producing more clean energy, reducing energy waste and putting a price on carbon pollution will create sustainable jobs, diversify Alberta's economy and make the province more competitive and resilient in the future.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailVICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government announcing its next steps for pricing carbon pollution: «The federal government has laid out a straightforward process for delivering on its commitment to establish a national price on carbon pollution.

Fortunately, governments, cities and businesses everywhere are gearing up for a wholesale energy - systems transition that includes new investment in renewable energy and low - carbon technology, and putting a price on carbon pollution.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.