Sentences with phrase «proposed hundreds of bills»

Lawmakers in state legislatures across the nation have proposed hundreds of bills this year relating to clean energy.

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ALBANY — The annual tradition in the State Legislature of proposing «sweeteners» to state pensions for workers and retirees represented by politically powerful unions has produced 120 bills so far worth hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, according to the independent Citizens Budget Commission.

Late in the evening, giant reams of paper will begin flowing into the legislative chambers with proposed bills that are hundreds and hundreds of pages long.

Maine's proposed bill is supported by the Maine State Board of Education, the Maine PTA, Advisory Council on Alternative Education, the Maine Association for Public Charter Schools, and hundreds of parents, educators and other citizens, including the Commissioner of Education.

The Lieberman - Warner bill proposed hundreds of billions in subsidies to the coal industry, but nevertheless ACCCE ran print and radio ads against it, calling it a «job killer» and arguing that any regulation of CO2 should be left to the states — even though the group also opposed state - based regulation.

The bill proposed putting hundreds of billions of anticipated new oil and gas revenues (and that even before the shale gas boom) into a trust fund to accelerate clean energy innovation.