I saw climate change legislation mentioned 1 time in that whole thing.
Not exact matches
You suggest that activists
saw climate change as a «golden opportunity to further a political agenda: reining in corporations, regulating free markets and imposing environmental
legislation», and that these have prematurely politicised the science and caused «pushback» from the other side.
Some might
see USCAP as being leaders in the industry around
climate change - but I think their real goal is to ensure they dominate public discourse and have strong lobbying positions for any future
climate / carbon
legislation.
Just this week we have
seen one of the most conservative Senators in the Senate Lindsey Graham being heckled and accused of betraying the Party merely for being willing to think about
climate change legislation.
The United States» Congress won't pass domestic
legislation without key developing countries like China, which is now a major greenhouse gas emitter signing on to reduction commitments; and China
sees themselves as a developing country that has acted progressively and responsibly to address
climate change when it technically has no obligation to do so under the UNFCCC.
Proponents of
climate action
see the prospect of EPA's rules as a not - so - secret weapon for motivating Congress to move faster on
legislation, which the Obama administration and many lawmakers have said is a better way to mitigate
climate change while minimizing costs.
It is too bad, as Andrew Price notes, that the «need to stop
climate change» is not
seen as an effective enough argument to convince Americans to rally around clean energy
legislation.
Those interests among industry don't always align; on the issue of
climate change legislation and regulatory actions, we have certainly
seen this to be the case.
Very few politicians supporting any meaningful
legislation on
climate change, limited discussion in the Press and political debates, projections for increasing fossil fuel use as far out as the eye can
see, etc..»
After the Waxman - Markey
climate bill historically passed the US House of Reps, many
saw their hopes renewed that
legislation, however flawed, could actually be passed to combat
climate change.
On the rise of
climate skepticism; «there are 2,300 lobbyists in Washngton DC, whose only job is to
see no policy, no
legislation comes into existence that will tackle the problem of
climate change.»
This obligation would likely impose a need to discuss the financial and operational impacts of environmental protection and
climate change legislation on the issuer's business, which may include such things as the recent
legislation and proposed
legislation in B.C. (
see a summary of
climate change legislation here), Ontario (
see, for example the proposed Environmental Protection Amendment Act) and in the U.S. (
see, for example the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act colloquially known as Waxman - Markey) all, therefore, need to be taken to account.