Sentences with phrase «regulate global pollution»

The collapse of international climate negotiations in Copenhagen last month was just the latest evidence that efforts to regulate global pollution output can not succeed.

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He features a video on his official Assembly website, in which he argues against a bill to curb global warming pollution, saying it would create a «burden» on businesses, and is better left to the federal government to regulate.

Earth Day Network's End Plastic Pollution campaign includes four major components: • Leading a grassroots movement to support the adoption of a global framework to regulate plastic pollution; • Educating, mobilizing and activating citizens across the globe to demand that governments and corporations control and clean up plastic pollution; • Educating people worldwide to take personal responsibility for plastic pollution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse and recycle plastics, and • Promoting local government regulatory and other efforts to tackle plastic pollution.

We need national government policies that mimic the European Union's guidelines for waste and to promote the adoption of a global framework to regulate plastic pollution.

In 2004, California used this authority to regulate global warming pollution for the first time.

We are hopeful that the Court will ultimately uphold this key pillar of the Obama Administration's commitments that it took to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris, as it earlier upheld the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s authority to regulate global warming pollution under the federal Clean Air Act.

Jeff Horowitz: As co-producer of the deforestation segment referred to as «The Last Stand» (airing in episodes # 1 and # 2), my job was to work in partnership with Solly Granatstein, an amazing, Emmy award - winning director / producer to create the narrative arc that took the viewer from the global problem of the pollution caused by burning forests, to the political challenges faced by many rainforest nations as they try to regulate this practice, and back to the U.S. for a look at how consumer buying patterns can impact the way forests are protected.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its authority to regulate global warming pollution went through its first shakedown today before the Koch Industries and ExxonMobil funded [pdf] House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Energy and Power Subcommittee.

He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.

On the face of it, the Supreme Court seemed to be considering last Wednesday whether the EPA must / can / or can not regulate global warming - causing carbon dioxide pollution under the Clean Air Act.

In 2007, the Supreme Court instructed the Bush administration to determine whether greenhouse gases should be regulated under the Clean Air Act, but last July, then - EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson announced that the agency would instead seek months of public comment on the threat posed by global - warming pollution.

The ICCT's actions have ultimately shifted global attitudes toward diesel, changed the direction of the automobile industry, which is now moving away from diesel and petrol engines and toward electric mobility, highlighted the need to closely monitor self - regulating companies, and raised global awareness of the dangers of vehicle pollution to health and the environment in a transformative way.