Sentences with phrase «on federal climate policy»

The Center's new report looks behind that number, and traces the origins, goals, strategies and influence of one of the most important voices weighing in on federal climate policy.

United States president Donald Trump's assault on federal climate policy only got more people thinking and talking about climate change.

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This federal policy reversal will be discouraging to many, particularly since conventional wisdom suggests that American action on climate change is a necessary predicate to strong action by China and India.

On Monday, as Irma weakened over Georgia, Bossert used a White House briefing to offer more hints of an emerging climate resilience policy, while notably avoiding accepting climate change science: «What President Trump is committed to is making sure that federal dollars aren't used to rebuild things that will be in harm's way later or that won't be hardened against the future predictable floods that we see.

Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.

Last year, the federal government announced it would develop a policy that aims to cut more carbon pollution than any other in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, by promoting the production and use of cleaner fuels in vehicles, buildings and industry.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOTTAWA — Clare Demerse, federal policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following comments in response to today's federal carbon pricing discussion paper: «This proposal is a big step forward on a key climate commitment, and the approach Ottawa has chosen is a promising one.

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

Importantly, none of these groups could point to federal government dysfunction on climate policy to defend their own inaction, he said, because the wild rhetoric of government dissidents like Craig Kelly does not reflect mainstream government policy for the nation to meet its Paris commitments for a 26 - 28 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

«All of our plans on disaster recovery are premised with the federal government coming in with a big chunk of short - term FEMA money and then a big chunk of long - term bailout money,» said Edward Richards, director of the Louisiana State University Climate Change Law and Policy Project.

«The federal government has taken a leadership position on climate change policy while also enabling greater access to international markets for our natural resources, which ensures that Canadians receive full value for those resources.»

The decisive shift in federal climate policy will have little impact on businesses: Shareholders and large state governments have already pushed big business to act on the issue.

But now that the technology is here, cellulosic's promise as a climate change solution remains uncertain — hinging heavily on embattled federal policy on alternative fuel.

A report published earlier this month by the Washington - based Bipartisan Policy Center, for instance, called for greater federal leadership on climate - tweaking science.

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.

«The massive transformations underway in the U.S. electricity sector will likely continue, but they won't be driven by federal climate policy,» depending instead on state policy and technical innovation, he said.

He comes to the table with strong feelings about keeping federal lands in the hands of the government, a belief that «something is going on» with the climate and an embrace of an «all of the above» energy policy.

But the children's case persists and could put the government's climate policies on trial in federal court as soon as October 2018.

Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.

In a letter this morning addressed to Reps. Doc Hastings and Ed Markey, the Committee chairman and ranking member, Grijalva urges the Committee to determine whether Indur Goklany, the DOI Assistant Director of Programs, Science and Technology Policy, received money he was promised by the Heartland Institute for writing a chapter in a book focused on climate policy in apparent violation of federal rules, among other iPolicy, received money he was promised by the Heartland Institute for writing a chapter in a book focused on climate policy in apparent violation of federal rules, among other ipolicy in apparent violation of federal rules, among other issues.

For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school climate supports, counselors, science, or other costs other than reading and math, even though that wasn't required by federal law and didn't reflect state policy priorities.

>> I'm also wondering, Dan, what your thoughts are on adopting new policies or what's federal or state or local barriers should be removed in effort to improve school climate, to help with school discipline issue.

They undermine action on climate change and environmental protections; promote school privatization; defund unions and stop progressive wage and benefits policies; and, among other things, call for a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to restrict the federal budget.

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They do not meet the standard of timing, but that is because the pace of temperature change depends on development, growth, and policy decisions about climate and other things that can not be predicted (but that does not stop the Federal Reserve from setting monetary policy).

«The ultimate solution to greenhouse gases is unlikely to be either top down or bottom up but a reinforcing coordination of both,» he said, describing efforts to improve the ailing climate treaty, enact state and federal policies and regulations on emissions of greenhouse gases and other activities as meaningful steps, even in the face of growing emissions from China and India.

I don't see any evidence that climate science is driving public policy in the U.S. (at least not on the federal level).

Re # 585 I wrote, «I don't see any evidence that climate science is driving public policy in the U.S. (at least not on the federal level).»

According to the report, «more than 770 companies and interest groups hired an estimated 2,340 lobbyists to influence federal policy on climate change in the last year, as the issue gathered momentum and came to a vote on Capitol Hill.

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The report, Building on the best: Keeping Canada's climate promise, used analysis by Navius Research to examine the best climate change policies and solutions being used in Canada and how they can be applied at the federal level.

In recent years, concerns about the effects those emissions might have on the climate have prompted the Congress, federal regulators, and others to consider policies to reduce them.

A request from President - elect Donald Trump's transition team to the Department of Energy for the names of all federal and national laboratory employees working on climate policy has many who study climate change at the nation's national laboratories unsettled, according to a DOE spokesman.

Her work primarily focuses on energy management across the commercial and industrial sectors, federal energy policy and climate change.

At the third Climate Leaders Summit hosted by The Climate Group in Cancun, the sub-national governments in attendance committed to continue to develop low - carbon policies and to regularly report on their progress in the Cancun Statement of Federal States & Regional Governments on Low Carbon & Climate Resilient Development and the accompanying Cancun Sectoral Framework.

While the majority of Americans want stronger U.S. action on climate change, policies at the state and federal level continue to underwrite the ongoing exploration and production of fossil fuels.

That While the U.S. was taking a gigantic step backwards with federal climate policy with the election of Donald Trump as President, Trudeau's announcement showed Canada had taken a big step forward on climate action.

CAP has two blogs, Think Progress and Climate Progress, both of which serve to educate the public on and influence policy at the Federal level.

-- The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall transmit to the Congress at the time of the President's fiscal year 2013 budget request, and annually thereafter, a report on the annual anticipated cost of carrying out the research and operational activities of the National Climate Service, with a description of the budget for each Federal agency's activities.

While federal action on climate has stalled under the Trump administration, many states and localities are enacting policies to reduce emissions.

These university presidents, mayors, governors, and business leaders will highlight their steps to reduce climate pollution and stand in solidarity with international leaders, showing the world that US leadership on climate change extends well beyond federal policy.

However, in the wake of federal policies aimed to halt the climate progress, such as increased support for baseload coal - fired plants and tariffs on solar panels, non-federal climate leadership will need to increase policy interventions to maintain the momentum.

«It would be ironic indeed if the skeptical Trump Administration were to simply issue this alarmist report as federal policy on climate change science.

While at the BPC, she led work on climate engineering research and policy, and on federal energy innovation policy.

The impact Trump and company are having on federal clean energy and climate policies goes beyond regulatory rescissions and under - funded and mismanaged programs.

But the children's case persists and could put the government's climate policies on trial in federal court as soon as October 2018.

Ted Nordhaus runs the Breakthrough Institute, a think tank focused on climate and energy policy, which has supported federal investments in shale gas.

Federal climate policy has been interrupted by the Supreme Court's stay (freeze) on implementation of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Clean Power Plan, which will regulate emissions from the electric power industry.

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