Sentences with phrase «on carbon pollution allows»

«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.

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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.

The new EPA rules could encourage carbon - trading programs on the East and West Coasts, in which the government issues tradable and salable permits for carbon pollution to current polluters, then over time ratchets down the amount of carbon allowed under each permit.

So you get the odd spectacle of Smith going before the Senate to denounce cap - and - trade — the widely endorsed idea that the Government should set a national ceiling on carbon emissions and then allow companies to buy and sell pollution credits — on populist grounds.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

Putting an appropriate price on carbon pollution will force the coal industry and the coal - fired electric utility industry to internalize the cost of that pollution, which they are now allowed to foist off on everyone else.