Sentences with phrase «restrict emissions of carbon dioxide»

She has also spoken up frequently about the need to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, both to limit climate disruption and protect sea life.

Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.

1:16 p.m. Updated There's still thinking in many quarters that if the United States acts to restrict its emissions of carbon dioxide, the long - lived greenhouse gas at the heart of the climate challenge, the fast - growing developing countries of the world will voluntarily follow.

There's another advantage to this approach, which is that there is far stronger public support for advancing and disseminating low - carbon energy sources than there is for restricting emissions of carbon dioxide using a rising cost through a cap.

[25] The most recent edition of Cato's «Handbook for Policymakers» advises that Congress should «pass no legislation restricting emissions of carbon dioxide.»

Not exact matches

In a move widely interpreted as his effort to «out green» Gore, Bush pledged to include carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission from human activities, in a basket of restricted power plant pollutants.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has bluntly rejected challenges to the Obama Administration's rules restricting carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

I'm in Beijing to participate in a week of meetings related to the unfolding international science effort called Future Earth, so I won't be able to weigh in in a timely fashion on President Obama's planned Monday release of regulations restricting carbon dioxide emissions from existing American power plants.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

Thus, despite many years of attempts to negotiate agreements, as well as high profile campaigns to restrict carbon emissions, the reality is that today carbon dioxide emissions have never been greater:

Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer, has indicated that it would not have a problem with a universal charge on carbon dioxide emissions, implying it would not restrict oil production to capture the revenues of a charge on carbon.

As a result, the Obama Administration would do better to come to grips with this fact and stop deferring to the IPCC findings when trying to justify increasingly burdensome federal regulation of carbon dioxide emissions, with the combined effects of manipulating markets and restricting energy choices.

The IATA does say that it could support carefully designed carbon trading policies, though it prefers voluntary agreements to regulation, and it claims that such schemes should be restricted to carbon dioxide only, and that other emissions should be tackled by «other means» (no mention is made of what these means might be).

The Kyoto Protocol restricts emissions of six greenhouse gases: natural (carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane) and industrial (perfluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, and sulphur hexafluoride).