Sentences with phrase «policy as a wedge»
«In the past, there was a drive to use climate policy as a wedge to take coal out of the energy mix,» said Joe Lucas, senior vice president of communications for the industry - funded American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
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«Harm» tests act as a thin end of the wedge for a liberal drug policy, because once you show that a drug is essentially harmless, as laughing gas is, you have to accept its legitimate use.
The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.