Sentences with phrase «trading legislation»

The administration is already counting on cap - and - trade legislation passing to generate new revenue for the federal government.

In 2003, cap - and - trade legislation fell short by a margin of 43 — 55.

Most greens will, in the end, support weak cap and trade legislation because a cap and trade law on sulfur dioxide reduced acid rain in the»90s.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a coal trade group, paid the firm $ 10 million between 2008 and 2009 to fight the Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade legislation in Congress, E&E News reported, prompting a House committee investigation into ACCCE's lobbying disclosures.

«Phantom» bids have been a breach of provincial trading legislation for 30 years or more, yet the Registrar publicly is humiliating the best in the business by addressing the worst.

In Australia and New Zealand, allergen free claims such as «dairy free» or «peanut free» are not regulated under the ANZ Food Standards Code but fall under the general provisions of fair trading legislation intended to prevent misleading & deceptive conduct.

But cap - and - trade legislation died in the Senate this year, and the conventional wisdom is that it can't be revived for some years.

«The editorial in last weekend's Australian, «Carbon trading is not the only answer» (21/22 February), addressed the controversial issue of the government's planned emissions trading legislation, commenting that «We need to hear other ideas on greenhouse gas reduction».

«I don't want to get it bogged down in trading this legislation for that legislation.

Other than the notice requirement in Section 125 (a), US trade legislation does not set out formal procedures to be followed to withdraw the United States from a trade agreement.

Are you saying a FSBO via mere postings are getting the same protections from trading legislation than other listing types??

Last summer, he opposed a procedural vote on trade legislation, and after the vote, he accused leadership of retaliating against him by removing him as a co-sponsor on a bill, The Hill reported in July.

And, last month, after floating the idea of forcing cap - and - trade legislation through Congress as part of the budget, the White House quickly backed down in the face of opposition from Senate Democrats, especially those from the hard - hit Midwest.

When it comes to the United States, existing trade legislation with Central America allows free trade there, while the recently signed CAFTA agreement has lowered barriers between North America, the Caribbean and South America.

Fair trade legislation granted producers the right to set the final retail price of their goods, limiting the ability of chain stores to discount.58 When the Supreme Court targeted these «resale price maintenance» efforts, Congress stepped up to defend them.

Fresh off her five - day upstate «leadership and listening» tour, during which she wracked up the support of a handful of Conservative and GOP county chairs, Wendy Long has unleashed her first attack press release on her Democratic target, accusing Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of pushing new trade legislation «in an attempt to distract attention from her own pathetic performance on issues related to jobs, debt and the economy.»

One of the main benefits of EU - wide trade legislation to British exporters is that they need to comply with just one set of legislation, rather than 28.

«Jobs, jobs and jobs» In light of that polling and continued grim economic news, it is no surprise that separate campaigns in favor of cap - and - trade legislation carry the same message: Pass a climate change bill and create jobs.

It's undeniable that failed cap - and - trade legislation played a role in some races, especially the defeat of Rick Boucher in Virginia.

This is a key issue, and John McCain has put solutions over partisanship to pursue meaningful, market - driven cap and trade legislation aimed at drastically reducing harmful carbon emissions.»

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.

«I don't believe that quote cap - and - trade legislation unquote can pass because it is called cap and trade.

He also rejects Dr. Hansen's push for a tax instead of a cap to drive down emissions of greenhouse gases, but at the same time acknowledges that cap - and - trade legislation limiting emissions — widely portrayed by politicians as the prime point of debate — is not Step 1, but part of a long - term strategy.

He said that during the first term, Obama's team was trying to get Republicans, conservative Democrats and business leaders behind cap - and - trade legislation during a major recession.

Does the cap - and - trade legislation address health care reform, environmental issues or regulatory reform on Wall Street?

Even as the global Kyoto Protocol collapsed and cap and trade legislation foundered in Congress, U.S. emissions have declined faster than any nation's in the world.

In comparison, the network of prominent opponents of cap and trade legislation spent $ 272 million lobbying across all issues.

The simple reason is that Harper and the Alberta government are terrified that meaningful cap and trade legislation moving through the US Congress will make the already marginal economics of the tar sands even worse.

With carbon cap - and - trade legislation now on Washington's agenda, companies and interest groups have been hiring lobbyists at a feverish pace.

Because of this consensus, cap - and - trade legislation awarded farmers, landowners, and companies carbon credit for forest conservation, planting trees, switching to organic agriculture, and other carbon sucking activities — winning broad support for that section of the bill.

Strong notes that President Obama and others depicted CAA regulation of greenhouse gases as «heinously bad» when they wanted to spook Republicans into supporting cap - and - trade legislation as a lesser evil.

Why: Allgeier and the members of CSI are strong supporters of Ambassador Froman's push for the Trans Atlantic and Trans Pacific trade deals, as well as a global Trade in Services Agreement and Fast Track trade legislation.

«Geoengineering holds forth the promise of addressing global warming concerns for just a few billion dollars a year,» wrote Newt Gingrich in an attack on proposed cap - and - trade legislation back in 2008.

We are probably all familiar with a pretty recent example: the proposed national cap - and - trade legislation defeated in the Senate in the summer of 2010, which, according to its advocates, would have increased consumers» energy costs by about the cost of one postage stamp per day.

But any cap - and - trade legislation faces a steep climb in the Senate, where Democrats from energy - producing states have expressed concerns about the cost and impact of the bill on consumers and industry.

Back when sweeping cap - and - trade legislation still had a pulse in 2009 - 10, Collins teamed up with Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington to float what they called a better approach.

Unlike the cap - and - trade legislation Inslee sought last year, the rule adopted Thursday won't charge emitters a fee for carbon emissions.

Considering the likely election of the NDP, prospects for the tar sands pipelines look dubious, even if one can not discount the potential threat of legal action by Kinder Morgan to defend its right under free trade legislation to build whatever it pleases

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..

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.

The Waxman - Markey cap - and - trade legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, which the Obama administration has used as its blueprint in Copenhagen, charts out a detailed course for U.S. emissions through 2050.

I say «begin,» but in a sense we have been doing it for two hundred years — by factories acts, mines acts, by monopoly and fair trading legislation, and by all the countless laws we devise to restrict ways in which the market system can be distorted by man's cupidity.

Listening to the papers presented, the Family First senator became puzzled that the scientific analyses they provided directly contradicted the reasons the Australian government had been giving as the justification for its emissions trading legislation.

«What he primarily was was a source of enormous institutional knowledge, where the institution in question was the whole model of cap - and - trade legislation for air pollution,» he said.

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.

We need someone like Doug Hoffman who reflects North Country values such as pro-life, term limits, opposes cap and trade legislation (which if enacted will destroy what remains of the North Country economy), and opposes card check legislation.

West Virginia (D): Beyond the recent spats over «hicky» ads, pink marble driveways and Second - Amendment remedies to cap - and - trade legislation, this race remains close for one main reason: Gov. Joe Manchin (D), while popular among voters, is running in a state where President Obama and national Democrats remain deeply unpopular.

On Monday, West Virginia Senate Candidate Joe Manchin, a Democrat, went so far in a campaign advertisement as to shoot a bullet through a cap - and - trade legislation his party supports.

2) Are you more likely / less likely to vote for Weiner knowing he voted in favor of health care reform and cap & trade legislation?