Sentences with phrase «than energy policy»

Climate is about more than energy policy and can not legitimately be folded into it, despite the messaging strategy that many in the environmental and sustainable energy communities have been going along with.

Our approach, says one expert quoted by Friedman, is «the sum of all lobbies»; we have energy politics rather than energy policy.

Not exact matches

Tom Mulcair's recent article for the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) raises perhaps more questions than it answers about the NDP's positions on the economics of energy and the environment.

A newly released study from the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research did detailed surveys with more than 1,100 drivers.

That changed in the U.S. in 2007 after President George W. Bush signed the Energy Policy Act, which extended Daylight Saving Time in the U.S. Rather than starting on the first Sunday in April and ending on the last Sunday in October, the U.S. began observing Daylight Saving Time on the second Sunday of March, with it lasting until the first Sunday in November.

Gabe Elsner, director of the Energy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingEnergy and Policy Institute, told the Guardian that after disappointing state efforts in 2013, ALEC is now focusing on weakening clean energy standards rather than repealingenergy standards rather than repealing them.

«The demand for solar energy is now higher than ever and this report spells out how crucial it is for America to maintain smart, effective, forward - looking public policies, like the ITC, beyond 2016,» said Rhone Resch, SEIA President and CEO.

«Our country has a massive energy economy and we should absolutely wear it on our sleeves, rather than keep energy resources in the ground,» said Vincent DeVito, Counselor to the Secretary of Interior for Energy Penergy economy and we should absolutely wear it on our sleeves, rather than keep energy resources in the ground,» said Vincent DeVito, Counselor to the Secretary of Interior for Energy Penergy resources in the ground,» said Vincent DeVito, Counselor to the Secretary of Interior for Energy PEnergy Policy.

Jeremy Moorhouse, senior analyst at Clean Energy Canada, said the following in response: «The Clean Fuel Standard is one of Canada's most important climate change policies, cutting more carbon pollution than any other measure in the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and...

TORONTO — Sarah Petrevan, senior policy advisor for Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of Ontario's 2017 Long - Term Energy Plan: «Ontario's long - term energy plan provides more direction than details, but it stays the course in building a modern, affordable and flexible energy sEnergy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of Ontario's 2017 Long - Term Energy Plan: «Ontario's long - term energy plan provides more direction than details, but it stays the course in building a modern, affordable and flexible energy sEnergy Plan: «Ontario's long - term energy plan provides more direction than details, but it stays the course in building a modern, affordable and flexible energy senergy plan provides more direction than details, but it stays the course in building a modern, affordable and flexible energy senergy system.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

Through policies such as withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, rescinding the Clean Power Plan, approving the Keystone XL Pipeline and removing countless Obama era regulations on energy production, the Trump Administration has created an environment which fosters energy independence and growth rather than stifling it.

On no issue of foreign policy has he expended more time and energy than settlement of the Israeli «Arab conflict, and after almost eight years of effort he has precisely nothing to show for it.

And it's an economic view of liberty that leads us to believe that, because economic policy can manufacture productivity better than political liberty can facilitate it, we should pour our energies into shaping and implementing economic policies.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timePolicy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timepolicy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

Incentives and policy instruments to encourage entrepreneurs and start - up companies, and promote projects like community energy initiatives, as evidence suggests that fresh thinking and innovation often comes from small organisations rather than the «big players».

I would just like to see a sane energy policy based on facts rather than misconceptions and lies.

A recent survey by the African Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP) has revealed more than 80 % of Ghanaians want the Electricity Company of Ghana to be privatised.

But the script accuses Higgins of being «so detached from reality that while families in New York are forced to pay more than $ 3.70 a gallon, Higgins has been in Washington supporting big - government policies that lead to higher gas prices and restrain the production of American - made energy.»

I enjoyed reading Amber Elliott's interview with Caroline Flint (TP, June), although I must confess that I now know more about Caroline's views on Swedish crime drama than I do about Labour's energy policy.

But Blair Horner, the executive director of NYPIRG, said, «Long Island is bearing far more of the cost of the state's failed energy policies than anywhere else in state.»

«This policy will allow officers, in a case where do find it appropriate to give a summons, to continue on with their work and to be able to put, therefore, more time and energy into fighting more serious rime — rather than get bogged down with the time and energy necessary for an unproductive arrest,» Mr. de Blasio said.

Editor Janet Raloff has been reporting at Science News for more than three decades on the environment, energy, science policy, agriculture and nutrition.

Republicans are more likely than Democrats to favor the direction of energy policy, but they are most likely to lack an opinion.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

He lingered on the issue in a speech filled with snap references to national priorities, devoting more time to the interwoven policies of climate, energy and environmental hazards than to war, deficits and immigration.

«In the face of rapidly expanding energy demand and the increasingly urgent threat of climate change, we are continuing to respond to the energy system as it evolves rather than actively managing its transformation,» Didier Houssin, IEA's director of sustainable energy policy and technology, said yesterday at the report's launch.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

And it is more than the geographic expanse of the country that complicates energy policy decisions.

A tax on sugar - sweetened beverages such as sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas, and sports drinks would reduce obesity in adolescents more than other policies, such as exercise or an advertising ban, and would also generate significant revenue for additional obesity prevention activities, say researchers writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

► Bipartisan efforts from the United States Senate might bring «the most sweeping update to the country's energy policy in more than 8 years.

So there is a lot more in that than just energy that we are talking about; but I guess the point is that the United States wouldn't be relying on Middle Eastern oil, which changes [has], you know, massive foreign policy implications for the country.

Joseph Aldy, an economist and former special assistant to President Barack Obama on energy policy, says the approach would be «more politically palatable» than cap - and - trade, which is a nonstarter in Washington, D.C., these days.

That what the public thinks about energy — what they want, think they want, or think they know — shapes the decisions politicians make about energy and environmental policy: Personal attitudes, concerns, and priorities are determined by more than just «the facts.»

«Globally, twice as many emissions come from generating electricity than from all forms of transportation — planes, trains, cars and others,» says Carol Battershell, vice president for strategy and policy at the company's subsidiary, BP Alternative Energy.

Ceres, an investment network that studies sustainable finance and leads a group of more than 100 investors overseeing more than $ 10 trillion in assets under management, is a strong example of engaged shareholders pushing fossil energy companies to improve their climate policies, Smith said.

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And according to a recent study published by the University of Wyoming's Center for Energy Economics & Public Policy, coal - mining operations directly account for more than 11 percent of Wyoming's gross state product and a nearly identical percentage of state revenues.

Next month's University of California report warns that unless China radically changes its energy policies, its increases in greenhouse gases will be several times larger than the cuts in emissions being made by rich nations under the Kyoto Protocol.

Throughout more than 35 years there, she covered energy, environment, food science, agriculture, toxicology and research policy.

The power to regulate carbon dioxide is nothing less than the power to determine climate change policy and restructure America's energy supply system.

LBJ never embraced Kennedy's policies more than after his death, where he made it a mission to do the right thing in the face of tragedy, dedicating all his energy to ensure history would think well of him.

There may be 100 ways of accomplishing the transformation away from monopoly, but the best path will involve policy and finance reform at the state level; municipal rather than district oversight; and a combination of entrepreneurial energy with appropriate public accountability.

Gaston has more than fifteen years of experience in participative and transdisciplinary research on governance related to issues such as sustainable development, energy, climate change and radioactive waste management and with working in and around the assemblies of the policy processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the United Nations Non-Proliferation Treaty process (UN-NPT) and of the research - related activities of the European Commission.

Unfortunately, too much precious time, energy and money has been sidetracked by policies that harm our schools rather than help them.

This report argues that over the next decade and beyond, U.S. national, state, and local policy must focus on developing sustainable biofuels — rather than just more biofuels — that can play a role in the emerging new energy economy.

The turn higher in the Loonie already reflects this more stable monetary policy environment, and a lift in energy prices may be susceptible to a move lower if the Fed raises rates sooner than anticipated, or if oil swoons.

There are much, much better ways to deal with the threat of hurricanes than with energy policies (e.g., Pielke and Pielke 1997).

Rather than wholeheartedly support the kind of energy policy, civic infrastructure and lifestyle changes that will allow the United States to prosper in a post-carbon, green economy — and build a clean energy independence — the focus is on populist false promises that developing oil shale or lifting bans on offshore oil drilling will reduce short term energy costs.

As surfaces absorb roughly 100 times more solar energy than the CO2 in the atmosphere, future anthropogenic changes in both land and water albedo may figure significantly in climate policy outcomes.