Climate Policy

Forbidding the president from hiring "czars" to work on climate policy or negotiate at global climate talks. Passing the bill marks a victory for conservative Republicans, but it also thrusts the party into a tenuous position. ...
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President Obama has decided that the failure of last year's comprehensive climate bill does not have to mean the death of climate policy. Instead of imposing a mandatory cap and stiff price on carbon emissions, as the bill would have done, ...
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By SAQIB RAHIM of ClimateWire Corporations will work harder on sustainability in 2011 even as the economy continues to limp and climate policy stumbles, ...
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... and they definitely don't like climate change," said Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. ...
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Although the Republican lawmakers and the administration are at odds over most areas of climate policy, they are in agreement that public nuisance claims on ...
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Industry groups had argued that EPA's previous policy was unfair because it changed the rules after businesses applied for permits. ...
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Though California's waiver has taken a backseat to EPA's standards for now, environmentalists say it sets a crucial precedent for climate policy and creates ...
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“It's important to note that the future isn't what it used to be,” said David Doniger, policy director of the Climate Center at the Natural Resources ... See all stories on this topic »

New York Times

Negotiations like the talks that concluded here early Saturday do not give businesses or investors a formal role in climate policy, consigning them instead ...
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By LISA FRIEDMAN AND EVAN LEHMANN of ClimateWire Even as the Obama administration insists it can keep its Copenhagen climate pledges, US lawmakers are ...
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