Sentences with phrase «warming bill»

At this point, it is unclear exactly what type of global warming bill the Democratic leaders want to move this year — and in what sequence with energy.

Mar blocked Maryland global warming Bill Alberta's representative in Washington DC Gary Mar helped stop a piece of global warming legislation in the State of Maryland in 2009.

told reporters she would move a global warming bill out of committee before the end of the year, but she deferred to Reid when asked about a floor schedule.

Industry lobbyists and members of Congress who are engaged in writing energy and global warming bills say they are well aware of the E.P.A. process bearing down on them.

There are now estimated to be around 2,340 climate lobbyists in Washington — more than one for every four members of Congress.The Climate Change Lobby With Obama asking Congress to send him legislation that places a cap on carbon emissions, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid aiming to have a global warming bill ready by the end of the summer, those 2,340 voices will undoubtedly make the going rough for both.

Last July, this column reported that the latest global warming bill — the Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007, introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D - N.M. and Arlen Specter, R - Pa.

Despite years of work by individual senators, representatives and and advocacy groups, global warming bills have always stalled in the Congress, killed off by well organized interest groups, industry coalitions and congressmembers from districts seen as being harmed.

But industry lobbyists are not so sure Reid and Democrats will be successful, given the current economic situation and other obstacles to moving a global warming bill.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday that he would try to bring a global warming bill to the floor before the end of summer, another indication that both sides of Capitol Hill want to send major climate legislation to President Obama during his first year in office.

Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus said today that he has «serious reservations» about a major global warming bill and warned fellow Democrats to water down the measure in hopes of getting it through the Senate.

, now the head of the nonpartisan think tank Resources for the Future, said today that he is not ready to rule out action in Congress on a global warming bill.

Moving forward, any global warming bill that we pass should provide strong incentives for energy efficiency.

There is a clear lesson here for both the Administration and Congress as they craft a global warming bill this year: industry will exploit every ambiguity, every gap and every loophole in legislation to avoid real climate action as much and as long as possible.

into political advocacy group: $ 6 million NAS study is used to lobby for global warming bill

Mr. Global Warming himself, Al Gore, is the star witness today in the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Democrats» cap - and - tax global warming bill.

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Harry Reid can't even get a consensus in the United States Senate to pass his half - assed global warming bill?

Greenpeace has sent a letter to Senator Barbara Boxer expressing their support for Friends of the Earth (FoE) effort calling on the Senate to Fix or Ditch the Lieberman - Warner Global Warming Bill.

At least 300 global warming bills have been filed in 40 states, and more than 400 mayors have committed their cities to reduce emissions.

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«And every one of these global warming bills that has been introduced in Congress to date eliminates the coal industry and will increase your electric rates four to five-fold.»

She provides technical and policy analysis to legislative and regulatory agencies to successfully guide implementation of the state's renewables electricity standard and designs effective electricity sector climate change policies in accordance with the state's landmark global warming bill.

California's Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger supports the plan as does the General Assembly, which passed the state's global warming bill, AB 32.

that the latest global warming bill — the Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007, introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D - N.M. and Arlen Specter, R - Pa.

Such a fee, they said, would be linked to a mechanism for pricing carbon dioxide pollution permits in the electric power sector as part of a global warming bill.