Late yesterday, the Senate voted to take out the massive proposal to reduce greenhouse gases.
The Republican's presumptive presidential nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, has long been a proponent of steps to reduce greenhouse gases.
This shows the behind-the-scenes work of the United States, the one G8 nation that did not sign the Kyoto global warming protocol and agree to reduce greenhouse gases.
On energy, 53% of survey participants said they approved of a proposal that would require companies to reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming, even if it would also mean higher utility bills for consumers.
The second is that the Democratic base has become disenchanted with the party's leaders, who have not fulfilled their promises on comprehensive health-care reform, legislation to reduce greenhouse gases, banking reform and myriad other goals.
The treaty, named after Kyoto, Japan, the city where it was negotiated and signed in 1997, calls for industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants believed to contribute to global warming.
Yeah, since one of the principal justifications for the rail line is to reduce greenhouse gases, Governor Jerry Brown and the California Air Resources Board seem to be pushing to allocate a big chunk of those revenues for that purpose.
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It had urged all industrial countries to reduce their greenhouse gases by a flat 15% from their 1990 level by 2010.
And both candidates want to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases a sensible goal, but one that is likely to make energy more expensive, not cheaper.
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He also called for an international agreement to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
Developing countries refuse to participate in the treaty because they say that measures to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in their countries would bring economic harm.
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Automakers and the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year reached agreement on a plan to improve fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gases that requires cars to get an average of 35 miles per gallon by 2016.
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But extending the Holocene depended on taking actions to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases decades in advance, in order to keep the carbon dioxide levels in the neighborhood of 350 parts per million.
This cap will gradually be reduced, which, in turn, will pressure businesses to reduce their output of greenhouse gases.
The debate over the participation of developing countries in the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, has stalled ratification of the treaty.
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That means industry is going to have to find ways to reduce energy use, because most greenhouse gases come from burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels.
Given the public's mood to reduce foreign oil dependency as well as greenhouse gases, Detroit is feeling pretty put upon.
Putting a price on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would be an efficient way to reduce future emissions, encourage greener technologies, and reduce future risks of climate change.
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Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the plants will be held to strict standards to find ways of disposing waste safely, and avoid or reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
Governments can try to reduce emissions in three ways: subsidise alternatives, impose standards on products and processes and price the greenhouse gases that cause the damage.
You could, with a relatively small investment, help put people back to work and, by the way, we could save on our energy bills and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we're sending into the atmosphere.
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