Sentences with phrase «on energy independence»

Unless their plan substantially changes this weekend, I will be unable to move forward on energy independence legislation at this time.

As I noted in my recent EPA - update post, President Donald Trump's pen inked out Barack Obama's climate change inanity when he signed a sweeping executive order focused on energy independence.

RFF is posting Richard Newell's remarks on energy independence from earlier this year in light of this week's Executive Order signed by President Trump on Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth.

In this new podcast, Alan J. Krupnick, RFF senior fellow and co-director of RFF's Center for Energy and Climate Economics, discusses President Trump's new executive order on energy independence and what it may mean for economic growth.

President Trump is focusing not just on energy independence, but what he calls «energy dominance,» vowing to «unleash» American natural gas and coal exports on the world.

The new department must take an interest, along with the State and Defense Departments, in these two forces that combine to raise the ante on energy independence.

Steve Kroft: When the price of oil was at $ 147 a barrel, there were a lot of spirited and profitable discussions that were held on energy independence.

Democrats on the staff of the House Select Subcommittee on Energy Independence and Global Warming insist that Mr. Obama's spending plan covers not just research, development and large - scale demonstration — arenas that are the traditional focus of government funding — but also deployment of existing non-polluting energy technologies.

«The Administration is reviewing existing policies and regulations in the context of a focus on strengthening US economic growth and promoting jobs for American workers, and will not support policies or regulations that have adverse effects on energy independence and US competitiveness.»

The discussion on climate and energy focused almost exclusively on energy independence, and on the timescale to eliminating foreign oil imports.

Interesting analysis on energy independence in the Wall Street Journal by Columbia University's Jason Bordoff, a former energy adviser to President Obama.

Salazar seemed undaunted by the criticism, promising to work with Obama to «take the moon shot on energy independence.»

The speech delivered to students and faculty at Georgetown University was touted by Lieberman's office as a «major» address on energy independence strategy.

Earlier this year, the US House of Representatives select committee on energy independence and global warming received a number of letters opposing the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which would set limits on the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

MC: That might be the cause, but on the other hand you look at public opinion polls about issues that are of concern to the American public, and climate change just isn't near the top of those lists, and maybe they made a calculated decision that a more sellable approach would be to focus on energy independence and self - sufficiency, because that's something that people have already bought.

I'd love to see us move forward on energy independence.»

Scientists at a hearing yesterday held by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming tackled the question of regulating black carbon.

Rep. Edward J. Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, accused the Bush administration of not going far enough to protect the polar bear, noting that the Interior Department included exemptions to the decision that do not address the reason the sea ice is melting and allowing oil drilling to continue in a major polar bear habitat.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have already been waving the flag of austerity, saying that cost - savings was the rationale behind the decision to ax the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

In the conclusion of its report at the end of the 111th Congress, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming wrote: «Someday, our children and grandchildren will look back on the record of the Select Committee.

More recently, his service on the science committee was interrupted by 4 years as the senior Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, where he was a reliably skeptical voice on climate science.

Could Democrats bring back the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming if they retake the majority in November?

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Amy Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, recently was in Washington, D.C., where she testified before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming at a hearing on «The Future of Oil.»

I raised objections to corn ethanol last November, in testimony to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

His letter to the chairman of the panel, Rajendra K. Pachauri, is posted on the minority Web site of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

The briefing was organized by Representative Edward Markey, the Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, and for the first half he was the only lawmaker in a room otherwise packed with congressional interns and staff, representatives of environmental and youth groups and the fossil - fuel industry, and a few reporters.

12:57 p.m. Updated Representative Edward J. Markey, the Democrat of Massachusetts who heads the House select committee on energy independence and global warming, has released a BP document providing an early worst - case estimate of the oil flow up the casing of the wrecked Gulf of Mexico well that is dozens of times higher than the company's initial public estimates.

For instance, in the US, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming published this on its website:

Twenty years after delivering his landmark testimony to the US Senate declaring a detectable fingerprint for global warming, Dr. Hansen appeared June 23, 2008 before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming chaired by Rep. Ed Markey.

«We can not solve the climate problem if we do not include forests,» said Stuart Eizenstat in testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

House Republicans have chosen Lord Christopher Monckton, a non-scientist with a penchant for outrageous remarks, as its sole witness at tomorrow's hearing in front of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

The U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing on Thursday to examine the recent string of politically - motivated attacks against climate scientists.

On June 18, 2009, Heather Cooley testified on the impacts of climate change on agriculture before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

On Thursday, May 20th, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming will hold a hearing to examine the intersection between climate science and the political process.

On July 10, 2008, Heather Cooley testified before the U.S. Congress Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on the rising risk of extreme weather - related events as a result of climatic changes and their impact on water resources, with a focus on the western United States.

The GOP's anti-science climate zombies claimed their first victim late this week, with House Speaker - designate John Boehner (R - OH) announcing his intent to shut down the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming when Republicans take control of Congress in January.

WRI submitted this document on September 14th 2007 to the U.S. House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in response to the Committee's invitation to submit written testimony...

US House of Representatives, Mar 16, 2010 hearing on Black Carbon and Climate Change by the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

The massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avoid serious disruptions to Earth's climate system are impossible without U.S. leadership, Dr. Pachauri told members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

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.

I earnestly hope Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming) and Joe Barton (Committee on Energy and Commerce) will hold the necessary hearings to expose what's been going on with US tax $ $ $ in the name of «climate research».

Three executives from the largest coal companies in the U.S. appeared April 14 before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, defending their industry against greenhouse gas regulation and championing its role in a new energy economy.