Sentences with phrase «trade legislation spent»

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The new legislation was suggested by the Solidarity trade union in a bid to ensure workers can spend more time with their loved ones.

The most significant spending on the pro-gun side, however, has come from the National Shooting Sports Foundation — a Newtown - headquartered gun industry trade association that lobbied aggressively against the state gun control legislation.

Southern spent $ 14 million in lobbying related to climate change that year, while PG&E, which openly backed cap - and - trade legislation, spent $ 27 million and had a carbon footprint 40 times smaller than Southern.

With Congress preparing to debate climate legislation, environmentalists and their allies are spending millions on ad campaigns aimed at building public support for a cap - and - trade bill and scoring early political points.

Pushed by grassroots environmental and social - justice groups, California has led the way on this approach, with 2012 legislation (Senate Bill 535) requiring that 25 percent of carbon revenue from the state's cap - and - trade program must be spent on clean - energy investments that benefit environmentally vulnerable low - income communities in places like Stockton, Fresno, Richmond, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles (the targeted share for these communities was recently raised to 35 percent).

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.

In an agreement announced on Feb. 26, 2007, TXU agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.

As part of the estimated US$ 45 million buyout, Luminant settled a series of lawsuits with Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council and agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.

The bigger question is folks why is TREB spending all this money and time defending against a CB complaint filed by members who refuse to follow the rules, breach provincial trading legislation, misuse CREA trademarks, open defame and criticize fellow members, suggest «traditional» is a bad name, suggest fellow registrants offer inferior service, etc etc..