In this year, cap and
trade legislation passed in the U.S. House, debate began on a U.S. Senate version of the bill, and international climate accord meetings took place in Copenhagen.
Not exact matches
If new tax
legislation gets
passed, that will give a boost to Brazil's stocks and publicly
traded companies.
However, it follows the laws and
legislation passed by U.S. Congress regarding the regulation of financial entities, as well, it works in accordance with the U.S. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC).
«We applaud the House for
passing this critically important
legislation that will make the U.S. COOL rules for muscle cuts of beef and pork compliant with the World
Trade Organization (WTO) requirements.
For the past several years, a group of upstate business and
trade organizations have teamed up to try and convince Albany lawmakers to
pass legislation making it easier to do business.
In large part due to Cuomo's push, under state
legislation passed in late June, the real estate industry and the city's building
trades have until next January to strike a compromise on 421 - a, or the tax break will end — an ultimatum seen as a major victory for the unions.
The United States, Peru, China, Mozambique and United Kingdom have
passed new, or bolstered existing,
legislation designed to enhance efforts to combat illegal wildlife
trade and reduce risks to security.
Additionally, I have supported comprehensive clean energy
legislation like the House -
passed American Clean Energy and Security Act, which included a cap and
trade program, as well as Green Bank and Home Energy Savings Revolving Fund initiatives I authored.
As hard as it was to negotiate a deal in Denmark, President Barack Obama faces an even tougher time in Washington trying to convince the U.S. Senate to
pass cap - and -
trade legislation.
A slender ray of hope: Gibson and others are working to get
legislation passed in Congress that would make unauthorized
trade in Iraqi artifacts a crime.
CIOMA is no longer lobbying for
legislation to keep fuels out of cap and
trade, McKeeman said, having lost a quest to get a bill
passed last year.
In fact, the ratio of executive pay to worker salaries must be reported in the proxy statements of publicly
traded corporations according to reform
legislation passed by Congress in 2010 in the wake of the financial crisis.
As it stands now, high frequency
trading is largely unregulated and unless Congress
passes sweeping
legislation, which is unlikely to happen given its performance during past opportunities to enact regulation upon the stock market or financial dealings, there is nothing impeding the growth of high frequency
trading.
Blair Maintin: No, it's an absence and it's such a conspicuous absence that there is really no consumer protection
legislation in BC so we got a lot of US based debt settlement operators that were essentially outlawed in the U.S. because the Federal
Trade Commission
passed some
legislation a few years ago as they set their sights on Canada and we've seen other provinces like your home province of Ontario, we've seen Atlantic Canada, we've seen Alberta put in
legislation to protect consumers.
Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to
pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal
legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.
The uniformity in outlook among Republicans and the divide among Democrats, in combination with the 60 votes needed in the Senate to
pass legislation, again underscores the mobilization challenge in regards to a «big bill» strategy such as cap and
trade as discussed earlier.
2) I would argue that even before discussing strategic errors related to compromise around specific areas of
legislation, we need to consider whether a «big bill» approach such as cap and
trade — that required technically complex deals with almost every relevant special interest and industry sector in the country — was ever even politically possible or sustainable if it did manage to
pass.
So we can debate strategic errors at compromise — which there have been many — but that glosses over the more fundamental question of whether or not cap and
trade legislation was ever politically viable, and even if
passed, politically sustainable in the long term.
Had Congress
passed cap - and -
trade legislation in 2009, energy prices would have increased as much as 20 percent in some states, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.
Efforts to
pass comprehensive cap - and -
trade legislation, which would have promoted the deployment of clean energy by -LSB-...]
Most Blue Dog Democratic and Republican senators have declared their opposition to cap and
trade climate change
legislation that has
passed the US House of Representatives and is likely to be pending in the US Senate for two reasons.
As I detailed in last year's Climate Shift report, Robertson, who has a net worth of $ 2.2 billion, gave the Environmental Defense Fund more than $ 40 million between 2005 and 2009 to support the group's efforts to
pass cap and
trade legislation, accounting for almost one - third of the $ 144 million that EDF spent on climate change during the period.
Government
passes climate action
legislation to enable the carbon tax, cap and
trade, vehicle emissions standards, renewable and low carbon fuel requirements, green community development and low - carbon energy production.
Wirth, who helped craft a successful emissions -
trading market two decades ago that cut sulfur - dioxide pollution causing acid rain, is among Democrats questioning House -
passed legislation set to be taken up next month in the Senate.
Congress must
pass legislation that puts a price on carbon and establish a cap - and -
trade system.
This pledge was conditioned on enactment of domestic cap - and -
trade legislation that had
passed the House of Representatives that spring.
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.
The political challenges that emerged in the effort to
pass cap - and -
trade climate
legislation will not magically disappear if there's an attempt to induce Congress to approve $ 25 billion in funding.
The House
passed climate - change
legislation last year that included a cap - and -
trade system that Republicans derided as a tax on carbon production.
Stopping in Brussels on a European speaking tour, Dennis Leaf, a senior adviser at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sought to ease European fears that the US will not be ready to sign up to a successor to the Kyoto Protocol if the Senate does not
pass domestic climate
legislation, including a cap - and -
trade scheme, ahead of Copenhagen.
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.»
It is hard to see why it could go any better this time — if anything, the global economic slump and the failure to
pass cap - and -
trade legislation in the United States will make it even harder.
Then, on March 31, the day after Waxman, D - Calif., and Rep. Edward Markey, D - Mass., introduced cap and
trade legislation, the Senate
passed a resolution, 89 - 8, explicitly stating that the Senate will not
pass climate
legislation that raises energy prices.
Obama's long - awaited plans and speech comes five years after the U.S. Senate failed to
pass cap - and -
trade legislation.
States are also taking action to combat ivory trafficking — New York and New Jersey have
passed legislation banning commercial ivory
trade while other states are in the process of
passing similar
legislation to do their part to protect elephants.
The KP requires governments to
pass legislation to implement an import / export control regime, report
trade and production statistics and to participate in a peer review mechanism.
If domestic cap - and -
trade legislation were
passed, it could result in a loss of 1.9 million American jobs in 2012 and 2.5 million American jobs by 2025.
Democrats and the Obama administration will attempt just about every falsehood and any misrepresentation in efforts to
pass some form of the global warming, cap and
trade, energy
legislation.
Rep. Vic Snyder (D - Arkansas), who represents Little Rock and much of Pulaski County, was the only member of his State's delegation to vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act, cap - and -
trade legislation that
passed through the House of Representatives in late June, and he has been hammered over the airwaves by utilities, agriculture interests, and political opponents ever since.
Democrats want to slash that by 80 % by
passing their «cap and
trade»
legislation.
Of the various ways the bill looks to change the nature of how to deal with carbon emissions, cap - and -
trade will form the basic structure if the landmark
legislation is
passed.
The
legislation that founded the Californian cap and
trade system, AB - 32 was
passed by Schwarzenegger, and opened for
trading on January 1, 2013.
In 2009 the House of Representatives
passed cap - and -
trade legislation that would have rewarded more nimble industrial players that figure out how to use cleaner energy.
«The administration is engaged with Congress to
pass cap - and -
trade legislation, which the president believes is far superior to a regulatory approach using the existing Clean Air Act.»
Twenty three states have
passed e-waste recycling
legislation, but these laws do not ban e-waste exports, which is an international
trade issue, and not the constitutional jurisdiction of the states.
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.
Last year, the House
passed energy and climate - change
legislation, but its ambitious «cap and
trade» system for limiting carbon emissions is a nonstarter in the Senate.
Airlines Must Reduce Emissions 3 % In First Year In a move which has predictably angered the airline industry, the European Union has overwhelmingly
passed legislation which will include airlines in the EU Emissions
Trading Scheme from 2012.
Indeed, the effort to
pass cap and
trade legislation may be the best financed political cause in American history.
Instead, Locke was trying to say U.S. companies must not be put at a
trade disadvantage as the United States moves to
pass legislation to rein in greenhouse gas emissions that come primarily from burning fossil fuels, the spokesman said.