Sentences with phrase «trade legislation passing»

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.

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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.