Sentences with phrase «over climate legislation»

It's to use the expense and complexity of it as leverage in negotiations over climate legislation.

My guess is there've been few lessons learned out of coverage of the international climate treaty negotiations and the domestic battle over climate legislation.

In the fight over climate legislation, environmentalists» early rejection of a «safety valve» looks kind of lamentable in retrospect.

Momentarily setting aside the unprecedented financial firepower that foundations and environmental groups threw at the fight over climate legislation (there's more to come here on the debate over who wielded more or less influence), there's one graph that — to me — utterly punctures arguments that a meaningful cap - style climate bill had a chance (at least one with any environmental integrity).

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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.

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland director James Orr said: «There have been a series of attempts to get climate legislation here over the last ten years.

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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.

President Obama's top climate diplomat acknowledged today that Capitol Hill delays over global warming legislation will likely push international negotiations to work beyond a December summit in Copenhagen on a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

«If the Democrats take over, there's probably going to be a big opening and plenty of momentum for climate legislation... with more Republican support,» said Steve Valk, a spokesman for Citizens» Climate Lobby, a group that has helped assemble the bipartisan and growing House Climate Solutions climate legislation... with more Republican support,» said Steve Valk, a spokesman for Citizens» Climate Lobby, a group that has helped assemble the bipartisan and growing House Climate Solutions Climate Lobby, a group that has helped assemble the bipartisan and growing House Climate Solutions Climate Solutions Caucus.

Now over 60 countries have climate legislation.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

There's the economy, the rising debate over energy and climate legislation, the long - term nature of the projected warming, the flickers of natural climate variability, the pendulum - like nature of media focus, the inconsistent quality of media coverage, or...?

But the issue is one that is rarely discussed in climate treaty talks or in debates over United States climate legislation.

Much of the discourse over climate has been focused on gigatons of gases, megawatt hours of electricity, miles per gallon or details of diplomatic accords or legislation.

In all of the fevered recent discussions over next steps for climate legislation, I haven't heard anyone put forward a template for a bill that would lock in a carbon pricing path coming anywhere close to $ 60 to $ 95 a ton on a timescale that would make the technology globally competitive in time to blunt the burst of emissions coming by 2030 in China and India.

The debate over spending and influence and climate legislation, as cast in the report and ensuing critiques, is academically valuable, perhaps, but nearly meaningless in assessing the roots of climate action or inaction for one reason: It presumes that both sides in the fight had an equivalent task in either gaining or avoiding 60 Senate votes.

The book vividly reveals the layers of financial and political interests that can eviscerate environmental legislation and describes the tussle within the Obama White House over how hard to push on climate.

When lawmakers get into partisan tangles over legislation and a bill dies a slow procedural death, as happened with a climate bill in the Senate this week, the result is ugly and incremental, and doesn't compete well with news of spiking oil prices.

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

Just have a look at the fights over finding 60 votes for health care legislation to ponder the likelihood of 67 for a climate treaty.

Yesterday, Treehugger detailed Sen. Lindsey Graham's threat to walk away from the climate and energy legislation he had been working on with Sens. Kerry and Lieberman over the rumored decision to prioritize immigration reform over climate and energy.

It would be far too facile to blame the failure of the Copenhagen talks or American carbon - capping legislation on these revelations, given how the unraveling of the economy and other issues were dominating debate over climate.

Campaigners for legislation requiring deep cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases say this is just a first draft of an eventual strong bill that will be forced as public fervor over climate builds.

Over the coming year, the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec) will promote legislation with goals ranging from penalising individual homeowners and weakening state clean energy regulations, to blocking the Environmental Protection Agency, which is Barack Obama's main channel for climate action.

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.

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 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.

However, with a stronger market signal now unlikely for many years because of the delay in comprehensive national climate and energy legislation, the United States might well fall behind China in this new era of global competition over green technologies and services.

Over about a year, Campbell's Liberal government tabled 10 pieces of legislation to enable British Columbia's Climate Action Plan.

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.

Fighting climate legislation has become a central priority for their organization over the last decade, according to fundraising documents.

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.

Though catastrophic climate engineering programs have been deployed for over 70 years, the process of effectively bringing this fact to light must be in a manner that does not kill the proposed anti-geoengineering legislation before it can even get started.

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.

From the «let's call it The Pause» department: While the number of climate laws and policies worldwide has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, from just 72 in 1997 to 1,500 today, the pace of passing new legislation has recently significantly slowed, according to a new study.

«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.

The authors of the House climate and energy bill will be courting undecideds over the next couple of weeks as they try to get their legislation passed by the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee.

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.

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.

Tomorrow's meeting with House Democrats marks the first time he will be face to face with the committee members haggling over the sticky details of climate legislation.

In any case, Pickens can't even bring anybody on his side of the aisle to support renewables, which he believes in, so I can't imagine how he could bring in any conservative support on climate legislation, which he doesn't believe in (see Pickens: «You don't want to turn it over to the greenies, or what'll happen is they'll want to shut down every coal plant»).

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...

Sen. Mark Udall's (D) National Monument and Wilderness Bill scaled back the acreage proposed for protection to just over 20,000 acres, but the new legislation also failed in the prevailing Congressional climate of partisanship.

Yet both parties are complicit in pushing some of the worst legislation on this front — the grotesque farm bill and the bloated energy bill, for example — and in obfuscating the rest (see: Lieberman - Warner bill; and for some excellent ongoing coverage of the debate, head over to Grist and Climate Progress).

Over 1400 communities gathered in all 50 states demanding that their Congressional representatives enact bold climate legislation and cut carbon 80 % by 2050, and many

And now, with shovels still scraping away at the mess of the last storm, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has filed legislation that would authorize over $ 1.4 billion in investments to make the Commonwealth more resilient in the face of climate impacts.