Sentences with phrase «air act amendments»

In fact, after the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the economy grew quite well across the board.

Further changes are expected in the coming years, especially due to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which will encourage switches from high - sulfur Eastern bituminous coal to low - sulfur Western subbituminous coal.

Jeffrey Holmstead's formative experience manipulating clean air laws began in 1989 as associate counsel to President George H. W. Bush, where he was involved in «the key steps taken to implement» the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, or as Clean Air Watch's Frank O'Donnell puts it, he «tried to «interpret» the rules in ways more favorable to industry.»

While the cost of implementing the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments was just $ 65 billion, the direct benefits from these protections are projected to reach almost $ 2 trillion for the year 2020.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday released its Second Prospective Report examining the benefits of the Clean Air Act amendments from 1990 up to 2020.

The scientific consensus is that pollution controls enacted through the Clean Air Act Amendments in the 1990s and other measures have helped decrease the acidity of rain by approximately 60 percent to less harmful levels, as reflected in data gathered nationwide and by UD researchers in Lewes, Del., as part of a longstanding study.

I recall that in 1990, just before the US Congress passed the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, including establishing the first Acid Rain regulations, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) was published.

By the mid-1990s, acid rain research focused on how well the Clean Air Act Amendments were working.

1990 Clean Air Act Amendments When the Clean Air Act was amended in 1990 despite a barrage of industry - launched court cases, scrubbers became mandatory for all new power plants.

In fact, the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments have saved billions of dollars spent on human health and worker days, according to a 2011 EPA analysis.

The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments specifically targeted additional reductions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, using a cap and trade scheme.

Welfare reform passed in the summer of 1996, and the most recent Clean Air Act amendments — including a cap - and - trade system for sulfur - dioxide — passed the Senate in April of 1990.

Overall, EPA calculates that the total benefits from the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments from 1990 through 2020 exceed the costs of complying with the law by a factor of more than 30 to 1.

The Clean Air Act Amendments (1990) were implemented to address acid rain, urban air pollution and toxic air emissions and resulted in significant technological changes and retrofits for power plants.

«Instead, the US economy grew by 64 percent even as the implementation of Clean Air Act Amendments cut acid rain pollution in half.»

«In the 1980s, lobbyists told us that the proposed Clean Air Act Amendments would cause, quote, «a quiet death for businesses across the country,»» reported EPA administrator Jackson last year.

Visibility (particulates and nitrous oxides) and acid rain (sulfur dioxide) dominated in the formation of policy established via the 1970 Clean Air Act and subsequent Clean Air Act Amendments in 1977 and 1990, while global warming gases remained unregulated.

Section 111 (d)(1)(A) was twice amended by the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.

The EPA also believes that section 108 (g) is the correct amendment because the Clean Air Act Amendments revised section 112 to include regulation of source categories in addition to regulation of listed hazardous air pollutants, and section 108 (g) thus conforms to other amendments of section 112.

The drops are largely the result of stricter pollution - control standards enacted in the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments.

CK: Clean Air Act amendments that came into force in December targeting mercury and smog - causing emissions have created quite a stir in the industry.

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

For example, he shows an ice core and indicates it is from Antarctica and shows evidence of a change due to the Clean Air Act amendments in the US; the core was actually, as I understand it, from Greenland — and on his visit to see the core, the scientist had shown him cores from both the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets.

The landmark Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 passed the Senate 89 to 10 and the House 401 to 25.

A «policy brief» synthesizing the main conclusions and insights that emerged from the May 2011 Harvard workshop and roundtable has just been released, The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation.

In May 2011, the Harvard Environmental Economics Program hosted a two - day research workshop and policy roundtable in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to reflect on these and other questions in light of twenty years of experience implementing the SO2 cap - and - trade program, established under Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990.

The Boiler MACT rules, which are required by the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, will only target the most significant sources of toxic air pollution.

With its 2007 ruling in Massachusetts vs. EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments.

While the fate of the coal industry has drawn signification attention in recent years, the most recent bust in Illinois actually dates back to the passage of Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990.

To combat the problem the first time around, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency passed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which cut sulfur emissions from power plants by 59 percent from 1990 to 2008.

The Clean Air Act amendments required power plants to install instruments that record their acid rain — causing emissions and to report the numbers to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Mandatory carbon trading programs, such as the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that began in 2005, have their roots in the U.S. Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.

That report is a direct result of the 2007 Supreme Court decision that the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 require the EPA to evaluate the impact of greenhouse gases and, if necessary, regulate them.

In the 1970s, both Europe and the United States adopted the «The clean air act amendments», which required filters in factories, thus reducing acid emissions and this is what we can now see the results of.

Muller and his co-author, Akshaya Jha from the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, used annual data provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine whether a county within the United States was compliant with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)-- air pollution standards established by the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990.

In 1990, President Bush signed a Clean Air Act amendment on acid rain, and, two years later, he signed a global - warming treaty at a United Nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

Not exact matches

In an early morning communication, Hochul's office reported that an amendment added to the Defense Authorization Act should prevent proposed Pentagon cuts to the Air National Guard.

He compared it to action to combat acid rain, which came in the 1990s through amendments to the U.S. Clean Air Act.

«As the Clean Air Act and amendments have taken effect there has been a reduction in sulfur emissions from coal combustion, so that the amount of atmospheric sulfur deposited each year is only 25 percent of what it used to be.

In 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act, Congress gave the agency six months to make sure all emissions contributing to ozone formation were assigned up - to - date, accurate factors, and directed the EPA to review the numbers every three years thereafter.

The scheme, which was established by the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act, is intended to cut US sulphur dioxide emissions by half without forcing every power generator to do the same whether or not they have installed anti-pollution equipment.

42 USC 7412 (r), PL 106 - 40, Chemical Safety Information, Site Security, and Fuels Regulatory Relief Act Amendment to Section 112 (r) of the Clean Air Act

An amendment to the Clean Air Act, in the form of the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports (RPM) Act now pending in Congress, would reverse that EPA position and permanently eliminate any question about the legality of racing conversions.

Dogs functioning as ESAs are not approved for partnership in public spaces like stores and restaurants, but there are provisions for them in housing via the Fair Housing Amendments Act and during travel via the Air Carrier Access Act.

Indeed, there are rumors that Senator Voinovich is working on an extremely weak and coal industry - friendly climate amendment, coupled with proposals to weaken the Clean Air Act.

A recent report by the US Environmental Protection Agency... found that cutting pollution through the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 premature deaths in 2010 as well as over 1.7 million asthma attacks last year — benefits that would be lost if these politically motivated bills and amendments were to pass.

Drummond primarily produces low sulfur or compliance coal, meeting Phase II requirements of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act.»

The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act required EPA to limit cement plant's emissions of hazardous air pollutants such as mercuAir Act required EPA to limit cement plant's emissions of hazardous air pollutants such as mercuair pollutants such as mercury.

Tough new amendments to the Clean Air Act followed in December 1970 and by April 1971, EPA announced the first air pollution standarAir Act followed in December 1970 and by April 1971, EPA announced the first air pollution standarair pollution standards.

One need only consider the Clean Water Act, RCRA (resource conservation), CERCLA and amendments (Superfund), SARA (community - right - to - know), Clean Air Act and amendments, Organic and Synthetic Fiber Rules, Montreal Protocol, etc, to show that the environmental lobby has had a lot of success.