Sentences with phrase «on carbon pricing legislation»

POW is currently working on carbon pricing legislation in state governments across the US.

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Abbott has also introduced legislation into parliament to axe Labor's Climate Change Authority, which advises the government on emissions - reduction targets, and to repeal its tax on carbon pricing.

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.

«Over the longer term,» says Bradley Campbell, the former commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection and now chief counsel to the PurGen project, «we're going to need a price on carbon, whether it's a tax or cap - and - trade legislation, for this plant to meet its potential.»

In all of the fevered recent discussions over next steps for climate legislation, I haven't heard anyone put forward a template for a bill that would lock in a carbon pricing path coming anywhere close to $ 60 to $ 95 a ton on a timescale that would make the technology globally competitive in time to blunt the burst of emissions coming by 2030 in China and India.

Eric Pooley, the deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, spent long stretches of the last three years immersed with a variety of combatants in the intensifying battle over legislation aimed at putting a price on carbon dioxide emissions.

Today, four Democratic Congressmen released draft legislation that would put a price on carbon released by polluters.

As you know, we are ready to negotiate on the specifics of carbon pricing legislation.

This is a great opportunity to ask your lawmakers whether they are committed to passing climate legislation, including a price on carbon, in front of their other constituents.

Boston, MA — 71 Senators and Representatives signed onto a letter urging the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy (TUE) to support carbon pricing legislation.

Since entering Government in September, Tony Abbott has already abolished Australia's publicly - funded Climate Commission, re-iterated his «blood oath» to repeal the country's carbon price legislation and has pushed on with attempts to scrap the $ 10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

Congress must pass legislation that puts a price on carbon and establish a cap - and - trade system.

In a column that appeared in the May 2011 issue of Australian Resources and Investments Magazine, Rinehart wrote about her opposition to Australia's carbon price legislation and a proposed tax on mining profits — both of which have now been passed into law.

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Senator Lindsay Graham has reached across the aisle on climate policy, pursuing legislation with a Democratic Senator to put a price on carbon pollution.

Six of the books were bought two months before Christensen was appointed by the then opposition to sit on a key committee to examine carbon price legislation.

If you don't accept the evidence on human - driven climate change and its likely harmful consequences, there is no need to support «comprehensive» legislation that would put a price on carbon through some framework to drive reductions in emissions.

One example: There is legislation that would impose a price on carbon starting at $ 42 per ton.

French lawmakers passed legislation to increase the target price of carbon to 56 euros ($ 61.48) a ton in 2020 and 100 euros a ton in 2030, The rate, now 14.50 euros a ton, climbs to 22 euros a ton in 2016 and is integrated in a levy on fossil fuels.

Others in Congress support new legislation setting a price on carbon (with most recent attention focused on a revenue - neutral carbon tax).

House Democrats released a «discussion draft» of carbon tax legislation Tuesday and requested feedback on whether pricing per ton of carbon should result in a $ 15, $ 25, or $ 35 tax, as well as whether the price per ton annual increase

Bills to impose a carbon tax or create a cap - and - trade system are dead for now, although Boxer is nonetheless touting legislation to set a price on carbon emissions.

The Post is correct that putting a price on carbon is the surest way to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, and that it would be preferable for Congress to do this through legislation.

Whether or not it ever gets built will depend on how serious GM is about becoming a leader in green vehicle design; future climate legislation (namely, the price we put on carbon); hydrogen infrastructure, and how that hydrogen is made; the cost of fuel cells; and the cost of batteries.

Not waiting for national legislation to set a price on carbon and kickstart the journey to a low - carbon future, Montgomery County, Maryland has enacted one the country's first carbon taxes.

According to that report, 150 companies worldwide impose a price on carbon in their internal operations and investment decisions and 212 companies are directly engaging with policymakers in support of carbon pricing legislation.

Eventually, Congress is going to have to pass new legislation and put a price on carbon,» said Levin.

Phase 2 could certainly do with some help in the form of enabling legislation (such a price on carbon), but it does not have to be top - down solutions, although some are (industrial scale energy storage).