Sentences with phrase «trade legislation died»

After the Copenhagen summit concluded, however, cap - and - trade legislation died in the Senate and never made it to President Obama's desk.

Months after federal cap - and - trade legislation died in the Senate and days before California voters will decide on a fiercely fought ballot initiative to deep - freeze the state's global - warming - prevention law, state regulators released hundreds of pages of rules on Friday for how the law is to be applied, industry by industry.

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The legislation awaiting the governor's signature would provide the children and siblings of police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians who died as a result of the September 11th World Trade Center attack or rescue operations following the attack to receive additional points on a civil service exam for a position that is located in the same municipality where the applicant's deceased parent or sibling served.

But Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, who led the fight in the House to pass cap - and - trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions — only to see that bill die in the Senate — declared the EPA's proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants «a breakthrough.»

Meanwhile, similar cap - and - trade legislation in Washington state — which traced back to 2007, when the state's then - governor, Democrat Christine Gregoire, signed an executive order imposing carbon targets on the state — got caught up in the great right - wing backlash of 2008 — 2010 and died in the state Senate.