Sentences with phrase «placing limits on carbon emissions»

Rud, when I talk to those of the Progressive Left who are most concerned about climate change, and who want the United States to become the leader in finding ways to reduce carbon emissions, they pretty much go silent when I inform them that the EPA has legal authority under the Clean Air Act and the 2009 Endangerment Finding to do much more in placing limits on carbon emissions than the agency is actually doing.

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Moreover, to level the playing field and allow all new innovations to compete, you should support a cap on CO2 emissions to limit global warming or accomplish the same by placing a tax on carbon emissions.

That challenge has been largely ignored, with the policy focus placed on emissions and emissions reduction and the political will to reduce them, without due regard to the current limits on alternative low carbon energy technologies.

When I do that, aggressive curbs on carbon dioxide emissions fall well behind the immediacy of filling the world's energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

The poll also found strong evidence for bipartisan support of carbon regulation: 79 percent of Democrats, 76 percent of Independents and a not - too - shabby 57 percent of Republicans said they were in favor of placing state - level limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

The authors note that even if the large EIA reserve estimates are valid, peak CO2 could be kept close to 400 ppm if the most difficult to extract oil and gas is left in the ground via a rising price on carbon emissions that discourages remote exploration and environmental regulations that place some areas off - limits.

On the eve of President Hu Jintao's speech at the UN Climate Summit in New York last month, Times Online ran a sensationally misleading story suggesting that China would adopt a carbon emissions trading scheme that would «for the first time, place limits on the amount of greenhouse gases Chinese industries are allowed to emit.&raquOn the eve of President Hu Jintao's speech at the UN Climate Summit in New York last month, Times Online ran a sensationally misleading story suggesting that China would adopt a carbon emissions trading scheme that would «for the first time, place limits on the amount of greenhouse gases Chinese industries are allowed to emit.&raquon the amount of greenhouse gases Chinese industries are allowed to emit.»