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  • White House officials have already said the benefits of EPA greenhouse-gases rules outweigh their costs.

    Trade Groups Target EPA, Labor Rules Louise Radnofsky 2011

  • Facilities such as power plants and refineries will also have to obtain state-issued permits to emit greenhouse-gases at any new or upgraded facility.

    EPA Sets Timetable for Greenhouse-Gas Rules Siobhan Hughes 2010

  • It suggests that the world's biggest emitters are willing to curb their output of those so-called greenhouse-gases only to the extent that they believe doing so will help them in more immediate ways, such as fighting smog and creating jobs.

    U.N. Climate Chief to Resign Jeffrey Ball 2010

  • And more recently, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has set similar limits on greenhouse-gases.

    Bruno Giussani: Global Federalism: What if the Big Cities Start Acting on Global Problems? 2008

  • This, of course, renders false President George Bush's assertion in April that regulating greenhouse-gases under the Clean Air Act "would have crippling effects on our entire economy."

    Kate Sheppard: The EPA Documents The White House Doesn't Want You To See 2008

  • While the move will not by itself make a large dent in the nation's overall emissions, it is a significant step that comes just a day after the Obama administration submitted a pledge to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat to cut greenhouse-gases by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.

    t r u t h o u t 2010

  • While the move will not by itself make a large dent in the nation's overall emissions, it is a significant step that comes just a day after the Obama administration submitted a pledge to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat to cut greenhouse-gases by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • Build enough of the right kind of energy technologies, quickly enough, to generate the power we "need" without producing greenhouse-gases and there will be no need to ever turn the lights off; no need to ever slow down.

    openDemocracy Paul Kingsnorth 2010

  • While the move will not by itself make a large dent in the nation's overall emissions, it is a significant step that comes just a day after the Obama administration submitted a pledge to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat to cut greenhouse-gases by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • The Obama administration has moved a step closer to regulating greenhouse-gases.

    MyAntiwar.org 2009

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