Sentences with phrase «to regulate greenhouse gas emissions»

Nonetheless, Congressional leaders are aware that the president is obligated under current law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in some manner, and is deeply committed to doing so.

California is setting the precedent of regulating greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels.

The Obama administration is considering establishing national rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions for automobiles, according to White House officials, a move backed by both auto manufacturers and some environmentalists.

«This is going to make the states super-important again,» she explains, «When the [George W.] Bush administration stepped out of the business of regulating greenhouse gas emissions, you saw a lot of states take action.»

The CEQ also helped shape the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) declaration that it did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as well as its decision not to declare them a danger to public health under the Clean Air Act, despite an internal EPA analysis noting that greenhouse gas emissions endangered public welfare.

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Act.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

Science The Obama administration plans to take the first step toward regulating greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, but it could take years to implement.

While US federal cooperation on regulating greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely in the short term, there are quite a few opportunities for subnational US and Canadian governments as well as the Mexican government to explore harmonization.

-RRB- and used the value to justify regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

The Heartland Institute, a think tank that claims that science doesn't support regulating greenhouse gas emissions, published an article in April that claimed that poverty, not air pollution, is the key driver behind childhood asthma.

The bill would also bar the Obama administration from implementing a host of new environmental regulations, including those aimed at regulating greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

Both houses concurred on Sen. Waggoner's resolution that asks Congress to prevent the Environmental and Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions without Congressional approval.

Just now, the EPA has formally announced that it will delay regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's biggest polluters until next year.

If Conpenhagen meeting strectly regulate greenhouse gases emission, low and zero emission cars will be more product and more buied.

Oreskes warned Minchin that he was basing his decision on «bad information» and said that while many conservatives feared regulating greenhouse gas emissions amounted to an unwelcome government intrusion, avoiding taking action actually made those fears far more likely to come true.

Wrote the Leipzig Declaration in 1996, arguing that there was no scientific consensus on global warming and therefore no grounds for an international agreement regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

H. R. 910 would pre-empt EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions using the Clean Air Act unless and until explicitly authorized to do so by Congress.

The pre-Christmas gathering aims to thrash out the arrangements for regulating greenhouse gas emissions once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

A President Scott Walker can't just refuse to regulate greenhouse gas emissions entirely.

In a July 18 interview on Free Speech Radio News, CSW director Rick Piltz commented on the release by EPA of a new federal scientific assessment of climate change impacts on human health and welfare, and how the administration is determined to avoid regulating greenhouse gas emissions in spite of the research findings.

This impasse raises the prospect that in a year's time — even as the scientific evidence mounts that human impact on the climate system is veering out of control — there will be no internationally agreed legally binding commitments regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

But what is clear and should neither be forgotten or normalized, is the phenomenon that underpins these relentless calls for rolling back policies to regulate greenhouse gas emissions while promoting further and sustained use of coal, oil, and gas.

Under the «Air Quality Regulation» category, the Chamber promises to «Oppose efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through existing environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.»

And, finally, he notes the biggest reason that climate is going to remain on the agenda this year: the fact that the EPA is moving to regulate greenhouse gas emissions if Congress doesn't pass a bill.

Regulations were proposed (and some were finalized) after EPA's authority to directly regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act was clarified in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007).

Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act I. Introduction Climate change is a serious global challenge.

McMorris Rodgers has supported legislation that would have opened the Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling, andopposed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as an air pollutant.

I do think we'll see climate change legislation if Congress and the Obama Administration recognize the global challenge of regulating greenhouse gas emissions, since global warming knows no borders.

And according to E&E; Daily, Bush even lead the administration to take «several significant steps toward regulating greenhouse gas emissions.»

To advance its climate agenda, the Obama Administration built an interagency working group (IWG) to calculate the SCC (presently $ 39 per ton) and used the value to justify regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

This summer, the California State Assembly and State Senate adopted a joint resolution urging President Barack Obama and Congress to pass laws restricting exports of coal to any country that doesn't regulate greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution at levels required by the United States.

McClatchy Washington Bureau reported: «Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson stunned his staff last month when he publicly opposed their proposals for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, four union officials representing EPA staff working on global warming policies said in a... Continue reading →

My conclusion: The Court's reading of the Clean Air Act in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) and the EPA's reading of the Act in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from «major» stationary sources can not both be right — and both may be wrong!

Although the National Association of Manufacturers, or NAM, which represents 11,000 U.S. manufacturers, has forcefully condemned recent moves by the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Keller voluntarily cut his company's emissions 20 percent from 2005 to 2010.

In 2006 Ottawa let it be known via the Canada Gazette that it intended to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Public health experts urged Congress to allow EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, citing health risks

Most industry groups are closely following U.S. EPA's efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Hackney said, but even agencies historically uninvolved with environmental issues have started assuming environmental oversight responsibilities.

Geographer Carol Harden, the editor of the journal, Physical Geography, was aware that Soon was a vociferous critic of the idea that humans were causing global warming and of proposals for the U.S. government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

That work started following the Obama Administration's decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

The EPA's endangerment finding kicks off a process to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry, the latest sector to be regulated under the Clean Air Act after cars, trucks and large stationary sources like power plants.

«It will be much more interesting to see what the agency says when it actually develops a proposed rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions — and therefore has to estimate the effects of that proposal.»

Betting on carbon regulation may have seemed like a sure thing in the 1990s as scientific and, seemingly, political consensus grew around the need to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

His views: In the past Perdue has indicated he sees the need to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, albeit not through the EPA.

The passage of Proposition 23 would also further embolden a Republican - dominated Congress intent on stripping the federal government's Environmental Protection Agency of its powers to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

For example, in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air pollution, based on evidence that such emissions were changing Earth's climate.