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Their pledge, which took place in a rare joint appearance before Congress, marked a significant step forward for the new Democratic majority on Capitol Hill, which aims to draft America's first national global warming legislation in the next few months.

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.

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The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

But the mayor's legislation did not get an entirely warm reception in the Council on Friday, after a demonstration on the steps of City Hall by the unions, so he tweaked it again.

Cuomo's proposal appears to face a warmer reception in the Republican - controlled Senate than his recent legislation that would limit the amount of money LLCs can give.

The study found that none of the «dismissive» group — those who don't think the climate is changing or want legislation — believe global warming will harm the United States in 50 years.

Jason Grumet, the Obama campaign's lead energy and environment advisor, has indicated that the president - elect plans to move quickly on getting climate change legislation through in 2009 and working to make the U.S. a leader on mitigating global warming.

Congress is still far from passing any bill since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said in January 2007 that global - warming legislation would be a top priority.

President Obama's top climate diplomat acknowledged today that Capitol Hill delays over global warming legislation will likely push international negotiations to work beyond a December summit in Copenhagen on a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

After the failure of federal climate legislation in Congress this year, the fate of California's law was viewed as a US turning point — either away from addressing global warming or toward stronger action to curb greenhouse gases.

Meanwhile, surveys suggest that science teachers face criticism over teaching about global warming, and some states have passed legislation seeking to include anti-climate change material in the scientific curriculum.

The warm glow of an old electric light - bulb, which has been banned in many countries because it is so energy inefficient, may soon be making a comeback All 12V MR16 lamp bulbs will be phased out from 2013 if draft legislation is approved.

According to the A.P. «Bush is not going to outline a specific proposal, but he'll lay out a strategy for «realistic» emission reduction targets and «principles» he thinks Congress should follow in crafting global warming legislation.

Telephone surveys were conducted among voters who live in the congressional districts of six members of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee (which will be considering new global warming emissions legislation in the fall).

-- The venture capitalist Vinod Khosla says there must be new elements in climate and energy legislation if the goal is actually to limit warming.

Even if the legislation took effect and emissions were curtailed, the world would still see disruptive pressures building in places already facing severe drought and flood risks with or without the added kick from greenhouse warming.

I have high hopes President Barack Obama, from my home State of Illinois, will change all that and proceed to execute many promised political reforms in Washington, D. C. High on his list should be implementing immediate and effective Congressional legislation about the consequences of human - induced, global warming and climate change.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is fighting hard against treaties or legislation limiting greenhouse gases, has pointed afresh to old media coverage pointing to «unprecedented» Arctic ice retreats and warming early in the 20th century.

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

Graham, who is in his third term in the Senate, has gained a reputation as one of the few Republicans who has, in the past, acknowledged the science finding that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and has worked across the aisle on legislation to deal with it.

Congress should take the lead in passing comprehensive global warming legislation.»

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.

Businesses that share the view Mr. Bush expressed in March, when he rejected any binding limits on the warming gases, whether in a global accord or federal legislation, say they are confident that there will be no big shifts.

Dan Lashof, director of the Climate Center for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, «The emerging consensus in the House Energy and Commerce Committee lays the critical foundation for Congress to enact legislation this year that will spur clean energy investments and cut carbon pollution that causes global warming.»

The political impasse over global warming legislation stems from obstacles in the mass media arena, public awareness, electoral politics as well as governmental policy.

With that in mind, I intend to support and champion legislation in the Senate that will protect our oceans and help to stop global warming on the federal level.

«Some supporters of global warming legislation believe that the division in the once - monolithic oil and gas industry, as well as other splits among energy producers, could improve the prospects for the legislation.»

The most one could say is that these sorts of groups have opposed specific legislation, such as carbon taxes or drilling bans, that Brulle wants politicians to enact into law.50 This opposition may explain a lot about Brulle's motivations, and it definitely shows that he's more interested in political victories than science, but it says nothing about how Americans form their views of the science of Global Warming.

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 impact of the Climategate story on the public discourse over global warming legislation is an interesting tale that will be in flux for the foreseeable future.

But the defeat of federal climate legislation, the failure of leadership at the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the struggling economy and the rise of global warming skepticism in U.S. politics dampened prospects for climate policy.

In April 2011, the Senate voted on Sen. Inhofe's legislation to overturn all EPA global warming regulations except those auto companies had already made investments to comply with.

Back in October last year, the Senate's Environment and Communications Legislation Committee agreed to table a letter from Cardinal Pell which quoted heavily from Heaven and Earth to claim there were «good reasons for doubting that carbon dioxide causes warmer temperatures».

The legislation is entirely based on the agency's finding, in 2009, that key greenhouse gases in the atmosphere «threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations» — because of their contribution to global warming.

Legislation to use the pollution credits approach to curb global warming passed the Democratic - controlled House in 2009, with the support of Obama.

These, and their community of blog commenters, are the global warming contrarians that formed the peer - to - peer review network and helped bring chaos to Copenhagen — critically wounding the prospects of cap - and - trade legislation in the process.

While comprehensive climate and energy legislation has thus far failed to pass the United States Congress, there are a series of vital programs and strategies underway in the United States to reduce global warming emissions, such as:

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It has adopted some of the strongest legislation in Oceania to fight global warming, «making it compulsory for state sectors, including those responsible for the environment, disaster management, transportation, infrastructure, health, education and finance, to mainstream climate adaptation in all policies and action plans,» according to the Inter Press Service.

In June the U.S. Senate will begin debate on legislation to address global warming.

Following a change in leadership in the House and Senate after the 2006 elections, the new legislation came as a response to high energy prices and growing concerns about global warming.

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.

Leftist Democrat politicians are pushing «climate change» legislation, such as Waxman - Markey, that will accomplish nothing in regards to global warming and climate change but will definitely impose a multi-trillion tax on the U.S economy and consumers.

The state's AB 32 legislation, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, requires a reduction in state GHG emissions by 2020 to its 1990 level of 431 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent per year (MtCO2e / year).

The legislation in Congress that it backed in the name of fighting global warming contained ethanol subsidies, even though ethanol subsidies have been linked to famine, hunger, food riots, and political unrest in poor countries.

In a backward leap of anti-Copernican proportions, North Carolina's state legislature recently passed what may be the nation's first state - wide global warming denial legislation.

The recommendation is likely to lead to legislation in the General Assembly, which must decide next year whether to stick with the goal it set in 2009 of reducing climate - warming emissions 25 percent by 2020.

Climate legislation in the United States, considered key to any significant progress in slowing global warming, is stalled.

«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.