Sentences with phrase «on carbon pollution called»

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.

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VANCOUVER / COAST SALISH TERRITORY — With the province's new climate plan expected to land any day now, a coalition of British Columbia power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations is calling on the government to tackle B.C.'s growing carbon pollution problem.

Soon after, more than 75 companies, organizations and local governments called on the government to take action to reduce carbon pollution from the buildings sector.

At 1 p.m., environmental activists call for action on unchecked carbon pollution from power plants to protect public health, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Although PCAST called for «very substantial mitigation,» its report declined to recommend the idea of putting a price on carbon pollution, a centerpiece of climate legislation that Congress rejected earlier in Obama's term - or the administration's pending decision on whether to permit the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Last week, at a meeting in Prague, UNCTAD called on the US, the European Union and Japan to set up a pilot pollution «exchange», to organise trade in «emissions entitlements» for carbon dioxide.

We call on Congress and the administration to enact strong, comprehensive climate and energy legislation to reduce carbon pollution and lead the world in clean energy technology.

We call on you to keep global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2 degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero.

Today, a coalition of more than 25 organizations sent the below message to Washington state legislators calling for strong climate action, in the form of three key solutions: (1) supporting a path to 100 % carbon - free electricity, (2) putting a price on carbon pollution, and (3) advancing clean fuels for transportation.

I will admit that carbon dioxide is to plant life what oxygen is to humans and that without it there would be no life on this planet, and stop calling it «pollution».

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.

In calling for the development of new carbon trading mechanisms, the Paris Agreement has theoretically established the foundation for a carbon market focused more on mitigating than on offsetting pollution.

With a carbon fee - and - rebate policy called the Climate and Community Reinvestment Act of D.C., companies that buy and sell fossil fuels in the District would pay a steadily - rising fee on each ton of heat - trapping pollution they cause.

Washington, D.C. — As a growing group of environmental leaders call on Walmart to stop greenwashing and commit to real sustainability, a new study finds that Walmart is one of the nation's largest users of coal - fired electricity, and that its heavy reliance on dirty power pumps nearly 8 million metric tons of carbon pollution into the air each year.