Sentences with phrase «to pass a climate bill»

While the Senate passed the Climate Bill in November, disparity between the parties has resulted in a virtual energy policy standoff.

Seems like the conventional wisdom in Washington right now is that there's no way the Senate passes a climate bill in 2010 — especially after that long, gory health care battle we just saw.

The end came with the failure of a seven - year effort in the Senate to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade system for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

A lot of critics say this law was never designed for dealing with carbon dioxide, that in some ways Obama is resorting to it as a sort of kludge because Congress couldn't pass a climate bill in 2010.

(The House of Representatives passed a climate bill last summer, mandating 15 % of electricity come from renewable resources, among other measures.)

If the Senate only needed 50 votes (plus a VP tiebreaker) to act, we would have passed a climate bill last year, even in the face of the disinformation campaign and lousy media coverage.

There has been no House immigration bill, whereas the House has passed a climate bill already.

Latest indications are that the Senate is unlikely to pass the climate bill until spring next year.

From a similarly counterintuitive perspective, could the 2010 election actually improve the chances of passing a climate bill next year?

Given that Congress isn't likely to pass a climate bill anytime soon, the choices that EPA officials make in the months ahead will matter greatly.

The House narrowly passed a climate bill in late June, but the Senate is moving slowly, in part because it is preoccupied with health care legislation.

Many of the pledges are contingent: The United States, for example, refuses to set a concrete target until Congress passes a climate bill, and Canada's pledge is linked to that of the U.S.

«Our analysis of the House - passed climate bill found that consumer bill savings from energy efficiency offset the costs to consumers of greenhouse gas emissions limits, making the overall package affordable to consumers,» stated Steven Nadel, Executive Director for the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy (ACEEE).

If Congress couldn't pass a climate bill so feeble that it consisted of little but loopholes while Barack Obama was president and the Democrats had a majority in both houses, where does hope lie for action in other circumstances?

However, both the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce seem to think differently, telling Reuters that the US really needs to pass a climate bill before heading to Copenhagen if it wants to be seen as a leader on the issue: Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack said,

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-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.

The House of Representatives passed a climate bill in June, but a stalled effort on health care has delayed the Senate from examining the issue.

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Frustration over what was viewed as weak UN climate agreements, plus the US Senate's failure to pass a climate bill in 2010, pushed foundations and nonprofit groups — such as Greenpeace — to ensure their investments were not going to big oil companies.

EPRI's conclusions about energy technology gains were fed into a second computer model to assess the costs of stripping 80 percent of 1990 - level carbon emissions out of the electricity sector by 2050, approximating the goal of the House - passed climate bill.

4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch of American public discourse reserved for the global warming debate (to get an idea of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this news map if you can), a week of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive discussion.

The endangerment finding increases the pressure on Congress to pass a climate bill, said Tim Telleen - Lawton of Environment America.

Senator Kerry's speech made clear the importance of the Copenhagen talks on domestic efforts to pass a climate bill.

That was in 2009, when it seemed likely that Congress might pass a climate bill.

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Barack Obama was president of the United States, and we were going to pass a climate bill, and we were going to have the most progressive environmental policy we'd ever seen.

Passing a climate bill «is not only a matter of almost supreme technical difficulty,» Dingell said, «but it is a matter of extraordinary political concern, as the Senate found out.»

Evidence that the monster is currently enraged includes: doubt that was expressed particularly by European policy makers at the climate negotiations at Copenhagen (van der Sluijs et al. 2010), defeat of a seven - year effort in the U.S. Senate to pass a climate bill centered on cap - and - trade, increasing prominence of skeptics in the news media, and the formation of an InterAcademy Independent Review of the IPCC.

Also keep in mind that the House has already passed a climate bill, but hasn't passed an immigration bill.

Though Congress may eventually pull together and pass a climate bill, the president must not wait on that uncertain prospect.

I asked Clinton what the US role could be in global climate talks at Copenhagen if the Senate doesn't end up passing a climate bill.

As seen in similar campaigns in 2009 to pass a climate bill in the United States and to ratify an international climate treaty in Copenhagen, the system is rigged against us.

Could the US Senate Pass the Climate Bill, Then Reject a Global Treaty?