Sentences with phrase «wide trade legislation»

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.

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In addition, despite its lack of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the U.S. government very early on began to give serious consideration to the development of an economy - wide cap - and - trade system for CO2 with the McCain - Lieberman legislation in the U.S. Senate (followed later by the Lieberman - Warner bill).

We need you to swiftly enact comprehensive legislation to cut carbon pollution and create an economy - wide cap and trade program.

Looking at this from a wider angle, Senators might ponder what would have happened if Reps. Waxman and Markey, instead of introducing a cap - and - trade bill, had introduced legislation authorizing the EPA to do exactly what it is doing now — regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act as it sees fit.

The current conventional wisdom --- broadly echoed by the news media and the blogosphere — is that comprehensive, economy - wide CO2 cap - and - trade legislation is dead in the current U.S. Congress, and perhaps for the next several years.

These members claim to «support economy - wide reductions in CO2 emissions and / or federal cap - and - trade legislation»: Alcoa, Caterpillar, Deere & Co., Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Eastman Kodak, Entergy, Fox Entertainment, IBM, Lockheed, Nike, PepsiCo., PNM Resources, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Toyota, and Xerox.

This figure represents reductions from the economy - wide cap - and - trade mechanism in the Waxman - Markey legislation passed by the House of Representatives last summer.