Sentences with phrase «over climate change legislation»

The Ag Committee has some jurisdiction over climate change legislation, and Lincoln's vote on cap - and - trade is a priority for her caucus leadership, which is having a tough time finding support for a climate bill among Senate Democrats.

A version of this article appears in print on September 30, 2009, on Page A19 of the New York edition with the headline: Curtain Rises Today on Senate Struggle Over Climate Change Legislation.

The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

The state of economic turmoil throws up a whole new question mark over climate change legislation.

Not exact matches

What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) expressed concern over proposed Oklahoma legislation that would encourage the state's public school teachers to question the well - established science behind evolution and global climate change.

The legislation, HB 819, actually represented a compromise over a previous draft of the law, which mandated consideration of a possible 8 - inch sea level rise, based solely upon historical patterns rather than climate change models.

For example, in the past week, three major energy companies, PG&E, Exelon, and PNM have quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the chamber's ongoing denial of climate change and their attacks on climate protection legislation.

Moreover, just as was the case with cap and trade legislation, other issues, including immigration, gun control, income inequality, banking regulation, and revisions to the health care bill may take top legislative priority over climate change.

In the coming months, as Congress and the Obama administration dole out billions in stimulus dollars to kick - start a green economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future of coal will be at the heart of the debate over energy policy.

Over the years he has shown a concern for maintaining a strong scientific research and assessment program on climate change — something to which few members of Congress pay much attention — both in proposed legislation and in calling out political interference with climate science communication.

«Given the uncertain political climate after the elections and the start of the new «rate - payer impact statement» next year, we worry the window to achieve some of the most meaningful climate change legislation in over a decade will close at midnight Wednesday.»

Although Mitt Romney's position on climate change appears to have changed over time (at one time supported policies to reduce the threat of climate change), he recently has opposed legislation designed to reduce greenhouse gases citing two reasons.

As hearings begin this afternoon on landmark climate change legislation, the debate will bear the mark of an unprecedented corporate campaign over the past year to preserve coal's role in the nation's energy future.

President Barack Obama's effort to channel outrage over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico into political momentum for climate change legislation appears to have failed, according to news...