Sentences with phrase «other big polluters»

SOME people argue that a carbon tax would do little good unless it were also adopted by China and other big polluters.

To get to the trajectory altogether, which would imply peaking of global energy emissions well before 2020 other big polluters will have to deliver on their emission cuts, too.

Not exact matches

Yet, putting CO2 capture on coal - fired power plants and other big industrial polluters seems less a question of whether and more a question of when.

The greater sage grouse as a species isn't having it much easier: Under the new Trump administration, in June 2017 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans for a «review» threatening to undermine efforts to protect the greater sage grouse across 11 western states, therebygiving big oil companies and other polluters potential new access to vital grouse habitat.

Zinke's plan could give big oil companies and other polluters new access to vital grouse habitat.

The climate deniers and big polluters on the others side, not so much.

In the tight little world of greenhouse lobbying, the Prime Minister saw nothing improper in going to the country's biggest greenhouse polluters to ask them what the Government should do about greenhouse policy, without extending the same opportunity to other industries, not to mention environment groups.

This was great to know that my actions as well as the other plaintiffs of taking this big polluter to court to reduce its air pollution can make a difference.

He's held Big Oil and other polluters accountable for their actions, and fought against expanded offshore drilling in the Arctic, by showing that the industry is not technologically prepared to do so.

In other words, an island nation that is flooded by rising seas could potentially seek compensation for the destruction from the world's big polluters.

Kathy Mohr - Almeida and her daughter Anna (pictured at the right)- along with millions of others in Arizona and surrounding states - could breathe a little easier if the Environmental Protection Agency steps up to enforce the Clean Air Act protections for Navajo Generating Station, one of the biggest polluters in Arizona.

And while we're going to need other policies which actually put limits on pollution from our big polluters.»

Obama also moved to cement relations with other big climate polluters — notably China, entering a joint agreement last year to cut emissions, and India, Brazil, and Mexico.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air Act rules that would hold the nation's biggest polluters to stricter standards.

This provision was added at the behest of environmental - justice advocates who have long fretted that big refineries and other polluters (often situated in low - income areas) could simply evade making cuts under cap and trade by buying up permits instead.

Donald Trump and Ryan Zinke want to steal Americans» lands and give them to Big Oil and other corporate polluters.