Sentence examples for green legislation from inspiring English sources

Similarly, business once opposed all green legislation.

The board was, as of last Monday, still squabbling over and tweaking the green legislation.

Eurotunnel has announced bumper profits and vowed to emerge stronger from its forced exit from the ferries business, warning that passengers would defect from cross-Channel competitors as green legislation and reduced competition drove up ferry fares.

The report also warned there remains "significant unanswered questions" over the fate of Britain's environmental policies if it left the EU, with EAC chair and Labour MP Mary Creagh highlighting to BusinessGreen the risk of core green legislation being overturned by eurosceptics intent on deregulation.

Maneuvering quietly behind each anti-wind-farm maneuver, despite his often green legislation and his labor backers' support of the energy project, is the senior senator from Massachusetts, who is accused of bogging down the wind farm in Congress, where today, having been approved by Massachusetts, Cape Wind is going through its last regulatory review hurdles.

Green legislation laid out for the last parliament before the 2015 general election included a right for local communities to buy into renewable energy projects, a 5p tax on plastic bags in England and a new, but watered-down, pledge to make all new homes zero-carbon by 2016.

First, the government is regarded as the leading player to investigate the impacts of its green legislations and financial interventions on electricity market.

Based on the emerging worldwide green legislations, such as WEEE, and the Kyoto global warming agreement, the involvement of the governments in energy industry via coercive strategies, including legislations and economic incentives, is indispensable.

Various green legislations are forcing OEMs to take back their used, end-of-lease or end-of-life products, or products under warranty to minimize wastes and conserve resources.

The Green Belt legislation has restricted that urban growth and helped to preserve what is left of the countryside in the vicinity of the metropolis.

The notion that environmental sustainability could put limits on growth was not an issue despite the green belt legislation and the creation of the national parks in the late 1940s.