Sentence examples for climate amendments from inspiring English sources

She didn't explicitly say that the climate amendments are nongermane.

McConnell said last week that he wouldn't block a vote on one of the climate amendments.

To evaluate how the votes on the climate amendments played out, it's worth considering what each side hoped to accomplish.

But she strongly hinted that she saw the two climate amendments as a sideshow to the Keystone XL debate.

The proposed climate amendments—just a few of at least 50 that Senators would like to get votes address a number of issues.

Inhofe's maneuver highlighted the nervousness that some Republicans felt about denying the existence of climate change, they note mild angst that was on clear display when it came time to vote on the second and third climate amendments.

The final climate amendment, introduced by the Hawaii Democrat Brian Schatz, went further, stating: "human activity significantly contributes to climate change".

Hoeven's measure was seeking to serve as a more GOP-friendly alternative to a third climate amendment from Senator Brian Schatz (D HI).

A Republican Senator, meanwhile, is offering another climate amendment that doesn't address whether global warming is real, but encourages the development of clean energy.

Sanders is sponsoring a climate amendment of his own, which would specify not only that humans are changing the climate but also that climate change is already having major impacts and that society should take steps to clean up its energy supply.

One successful Republican strategy was to simply embrace and then try to redefine the climate amendment that attracted the most attention (and the only one the Senate adopted): Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's (D RI) 21 January sense of the Senate resolution that climate change "is real and not a hoax".