Sentences with phrase «on federal climate legislation»

She began working with Greenpeace in 2008 on federal climate legislation and has since worked on reforming federal fossil fuel leasing programs and fighting new infrastructure projects around the United States.

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But he predicted that politics nationally would shift to the point where federal climate legislation would be possible and presidential contenders will need to have a position on the issue.

While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

Washington, DC — «The nation's mayors are disappointed that the U.S. Senate is unwilling to move beyond initial debate on needed federal climate legislation to position America to do its part to combat the global threat of climate change.»

Its report, «The Climate Change Lobby Explosion,» describes how hundreds of companies are trying to influence who wins and loses financially as President Obama and the new Congress try to shape federal legislation and spending on climate and related energy Climate Change Lobby Explosion,» describes how hundreds of companies are trying to influence who wins and loses financially as President Obama and the new Congress try to shape federal legislation and spending on climate and related energy climate and related energy issues.

Here are two fresh statements, on geoengineering and on the choices being made by Congress — at least so far — in regard to financing for basic energy research as a component of federal legislation on climate:

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.

But, given the host of competing problems — a deep economic recession, the urgent need for health care reform, geopolitical instabilities in the Middle East and elsewhere, soaring federal debt, and so on — selling the electorate on a set of fundamental changes in the way we consume and produce energy in the short run — and congressional appropriators on making the large investments needed to bring these changes about in the long run — will be a tough task, even for Barack Obama and his newly appointed team of highly competent advisers, and a Congress that has given every indication that it will take up and give priority to climate legislation.

Bette Grande presents «Federal Regulations - State vs. Federal Legislation Responsibility and Options» at the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC July 12, 2015.

Denialists will want to focus on the anomalously cool region of northern Russia — not record - breaking, but taking about anomalous cooling can help to introduce doubt into the decision - making process, which is helpful when it comes to blocking climate and energy legislation, preventing federal and state shifts in energy policy, providing talking points for Inhofe & Barton, etc..

Industry lobbying factored heavily in the 2001 rejection of the Kyoto Protocol by the U.S. administration under President George W Bush (Vidal 2005) and in the failure of the U.S. Senate to take up federal climate legislation after a comprehensive cap on emissions passed the U.S. House of Representatives in 2009 (Mackinder 2010; Grandia 2009; Oreskes 2010).

Washington, D.C. — Today, a broad coalition of business, professional, energy, and environmental organizations released recommendations on the role of energy efficiency in federal climate change legislation.