Sentences with phrase «pass global warming legislation»

On Wednesday, sportsmen's groups including Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership will join the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus and environmental groups to call for Congress to pass global warming legislation that includes increased funding for natural resource protection.

To that end, we call on President Obama and Congress to pass global warming legislation that meets the following objectives:

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Congress is still far from passing any bill since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said in January 2007 that global - warming legislation would be a top priority.

Meanwhile, surveys suggest that science teachers face criticism over teaching about global warming, and some states have passed legislation seeking to include anti-climate change material in the scientific curriculum.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

Congress should take the lead in passing comprehensive global warming legislation.»

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

As Andrew Revkin wrote last year about his storied career as an environmental reporter at The Times, «I saw a widening gap between what scientists had been learning about global warming and what advocates were claiming as they pushed ever harder to pass climate legislation.»

Legislation to use the pollution credits approach to curb global warming passed the Democratic - controlled House in 2009, with the support of Obama.

While comprehensive climate and energy legislation has thus far failed to pass the United States Congress, there are a series of vital programs and strategies underway in the United States to reduce global warming emissions, such as:

Democrats and the Obama administration will attempt just about every falsehood and any misrepresentation in efforts to pass some form of the global warming, cap and trade, energy legislation.

In a backward leap of anti-Copernican proportions, North Carolina's state legislature recently passed what may be the nation's first state - wide global warming denial legislation.

Crichton reportedly met with President Bush last year after the president «avidly read» the novel, «fueling a common perception among environmental groups that Crichton's dismissal of global warming... has undermined efforts to pass legislation intended to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide,» according to the International Herald Tribune.

But opposition in Congress — angry, science - blind Republicans convinced that global warming is a hoax — ensured that he was never going to pass any meaningful legislation to slow our nation's carbon - spewing.

Obama should work with Congress right away to pass legislation that puts limits on global warming pollution and introduces the sale and exchange of pollution permits. This will generate billions of dollars every year, and we can direct that capital into expanding green energy industries. â $ ¨  â $ ¨