Climate Policy

But when push comes to shove over climate policy -- as it has in Australian politics -- the future of the world's biggest coal-exporting business occupies the center lane in the climate wars. The Australian government has considered major policy ...
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Bell co-authored the policy brief "More than Meets the Eye: The Social Cost of Carbon in US Climate Policy, in Plain English" with Dianne Callan of the Environmental Law Institute. "The point is it's a very, very imperfect process," she said. ...
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The abandonment of the AEP plant comes in response to a string of reversals for federal climate change policy. President Obama spent his first year in office pushing a goal of an 80 percent reduction in climate-altering emissions by 2050, a target that ... See all stories on this topic »

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Gillard came to power last summer after support for her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, collapsed in the Labor Party as a result of his failed attempt at selling a proposed climate policy to the public and to Parliament. Gillard promised to do a better job at ...
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US climate policy hasn't been the same since. "I don't judge my work on its political influence," Lindzen shrugged in an interview. "As a scientist, I don't regard these people [politicians] as the judges of my work." He pays much more attention to the ...
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At stake is this question: Can Europe's climate policy reach the tailpipes of planes flying to and from the continent, even when that plane is over other parts of the world? Europe believes that under its cap-and-trade policy, the Emissions Trading ...
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What was originally intended to be a routine legislative hearing on the status of California's cap-and-trade system became instead a pivotal moment in the state's climate policy, with a standing-room crowd hanging on Air Resources Board (ARB) ...
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Meanwhile, a report by think tank Policy Exchange accuses the ruling coalition of doing too much on climate. It advised the government to backpedal as fast as possible and attempt to renegotiate its EU commitment to get 20 percent of its energy from ...
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But the answer comes at a time when efforts to adopt a climate-change policy have stalled in Washington, with many of the Republicans who control the House of Representatives expressing open skepticism about the science of climate change. ...
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The result of the national election could determine whether Canada dramatically changes its climate policy and moves ahead of the United States in enacting a cap-and-trade system. It also could change how much money the national government invests in ...
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