In June, 2016, Gina McCarthy, Obama's second E.P.A. administrator, issued a rule, under the Clean Air Act, requiring energy companies to fix any leaks — or, in the poetic regulatory language, "fugitive emissions" — of methane, a greenhouse gas.
The "low emissions" language in the text is not so much weak as artfully non-specific.
First, by conceding some language on monitoring emissions which addressed China's concerns about sovereignty, and secondly – at a late-night press conference – by making a nod towards UN scientists who have this week been warning that the offers tabled so far would set the mercury surging by a catastrophic 3C.
Others noted that, among them, the three dozen industrialized countries that supported the treaty language accounted for far more emissions than the United States.
But others noted that, between them, the three dozen industrialized countries that supported the treaty language accounted for far more emissions than the United States.
The White House concedes, however, that a preamble to proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations on mercury emissions improperly included language from industry memos.
It lacks a timescale for phasing out fossil fuels, and critics describe the language on monitoring and verifying emissions reductions as weak.
The other would be a wrenching failure, should the treaty lack clear language calling for strategies that cut emissions without creating other ecological trouble.
"Instead [of climate change], there is some weak language on the transition to a low emissions economy," Rimmer says.
According to the basic presuppositions of Buddhist ontology, "words" consist in singular sound emissions uttered at a specific place and time, and the "objects" that are interacted with as a consequence of language use are momentary and unique particulars.
