Sentences with phrase «trade legislation failed»
At the national level, these days any Washington talk of a rising cost on carbon generally comes up only in debates over why cap - and - trade legislation failed.
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Similar legislation failed last year, after it pitted environmental scientists against businesses and trade groups that benefit from the $ 2 billion market for sun care products in the U.S.
It's undeniable that failed cap - and - trade legislation played a role in some races, especially the defeat of Rick Boucher in Virginia.
The federal government now controls two major car companies, has wasted over $ 860 billion on a failed economic stimulus plan, taken over our health care system, put the nation's banks and financial systems under its enormous thumb and attempted to restructure our entire economy with cap - and - trade legislation.
As you allude to in a later question, the very nature of cap and trade legislation (highly complex, few perceived benefits) fails to elicit strong intense support from among even those alarmed by climate change.
Dave G: cap & trade legislation will fail.
Efforts to pass comprehensive cap - and - trade legislation, which would have promoted the deployment of clean energy by making dirty energy more expensive and thus cut U.S. emissions, failed spectacularly.
Midterm elections are likely to bring large Democratic losses in the House, and, fairly or not, a hard vote for failed cap - and - trade legislation will take a fair share of the blame.
Obama's long - awaited plans and speech comes five years after the U.S. Senate failed to pass cap - and - trade legislation.
Ever since an attempt to pass cap - and - trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions failed in 2010, the president has seemed almost mute on the topic — with a few rare exceptions mostly when speaking overseas, frustrated environmentalists say.
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