Sentences with phrase «air act protections»

«The enactment of Chairman Fred Upton's bill would strip away Clean Air Act protections that safeguard Americans and their families from air pollution that puts their lives at risk.

Kathy Mohr - Almeida and her daughter Anna (pictured at the right)- along with millions of others in Arizona and surrounding states - could breathe a little easier if the Environmental Protection Agency steps up to enforce the Clean Air Act protections for Navajo Generating Station, one of the biggest polluters in Arizona.

Today, environmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cement plants.

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The Trump Administration has directed various agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Commerce Department, and Transportation Department to find ways to use the Clean Air Act and other laws to require vehicles made overseas undergo strict emissions testing and other reviews, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trader Joe's also agreed to enter a consent decree and pay a $ 500,000 civil fine to resolve claims it violated the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Ruair and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water RuAir Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Rule.

The Obama administration has turned to the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the power industry through the Clean Power Plan.

In an interview with Face the Nation that aired Sunday, President Trump asserted that protections for people with preexisting conditions were included in the American Health Care Act (AHCA).

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced that he supports Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's move to file a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by failing to...

Hinchey was considered a staunch environmentalist while in office, haven been credited for support of the Clean Air Act and bolstering protections for the Hudson River.

New York has filed a complaint pushing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act to curb ground - level smog pollution that blows into New York.

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Environmentalists were furious at Stachowksi for voting against a 2009 wetlands protection bill, two clean air acts and a global warming pollution control act).

The DOL works with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has federal responsibility for asbestos exposure generally, under the Clean Air Act and the Toxics Substance and Control Act, and specifically in schools, under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.

That filing, which has been called the most important environmental lawsuit ever to go to the Supreme Court, demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act — something the plaintiffs saw as a very reasonable request since the Clean Air Act defines a pollutant as a substance that is damaging to humans.

The CEQ also helped shape the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) declaration that it did not have the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as well as its decision not to declare them a danger to public health under the Clean Air Act, despite an internal EPA analysis noting that greenhouse gas emissions endangered public welfare.

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.

«Due to advanced technology used at U.S. - based coal burning power plants, mandated by the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, most of these nanoparticles and other tiny particles are removed before the final emission of the plant's exhaust gases,» Hochella said.

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.

First, the Environmental Protection Agency has the mandate to move under the Clean Air Act.

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 19Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)-- air pollution standards established by the Clean Air Act Amendment of 19air pollution standards established by the Clean Air Act Amendment of 19Air Act Amendment of 1990.

That's getting easier to do, thanks to new laws that many states have passed against lighting up; meanwhile, the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 early deaths in 2010 alone, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates.

Kahn rips a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report that lists a representative sample of 175 academic institutions that regularly violate the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right - to - Know Act, the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, to name just a few.

EPA says Fiat Chrysler's diesel Jeeps and Rams violate the Clean Air Act with defeat devices: Just prior to President Trump taking office, the Environmental Protection Agency announces it's investigating Fiat Chrysler for alleged fuel economy / emissions test cheating devices on its Jeep and Ram EcoDiesel engines.

Volkswagen and Audi used a defeat device so that about 482,000 of its 2.0 - liter turbodiesel - equipped cars would meet Clean Air Act standards for nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency alleged on Friday.

This consent order concerns the failure of Paragon Air, Inc., («Paragon») to comply with (1) the requirement, implemented by 14 CFR Part 374, to make prompt credit card refunds as required by the Consumer Credit Protection Act and Regulation Z of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 15 U.S.C. § § 1601 - 1693r and 12 CFR Part 226 and (2) Department enforcement case precedent that requires that cash refunds be made within 20 days of receipt of full documentation of such a request.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to assert authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate the modification of vehicles used for competition.

A current example of SAN's efforts is the «Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2016» (RPM Act), which would ensure that converting street vehicles to racecars used exclusively in competition does not violate the Clean Air Act.

While looking good and acting good, the S60 still packs the safety features, including a stability and traction - control system to monitor wheel spin and apply the brakes to offending wheel or wheels to reduce the risk of losing traction; dual - stage (deployment speed based on impact speed) front and side air bags plus an inflatable side curtain that drops from the roof for head protection; whiplash protection driver / passenger seat to cushion the head in a rear impact; and daytime running lamps.

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.

Here's the situation: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently considers converting a street car or motorcycle into a race vehicle a violation of the Clean Air Act, and the sale and installation of parts used to convert a vehicle are deemed illegal as well.

Although therapy animals provide a very important therapeutic service to all kinds of people in need, they are NOT considered «service dogs» and they and their handlers have no protections under federal law (ADA, the Fair Housing Act, Air Carrier Access Act, etc.).

Carbon dioxide, the bubbles in beer, is a pollutant in the context of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday.

Today, it called on Congress to keep the EPA and the Clean Air Act strong, as both have provided invaluable pollution protections and health benefits to the American public in general.

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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.

Following the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, 549 U.S. 497 (2007)-- which clarified that greenhouse gases are an «air pollutant» subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA)-- the Environmental Protection Agency promulgated a series of greenhouse gas - related rulair pollutant» subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA)-- the Environmental Protection Agency promulgated a series of greenhouse gas - related rulAir Act (CAA)-- the Environmental Protection Agency promulgated a series of greenhouse gas - related rules.

She asked him to explain his dissent in the 2007 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

But on the last day of 1970, Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law, creating the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Environmental Protection Agency is justified in taking action under the Clean Air Act, as it has so often before, to protect Americans from the harms posed by air pollutiAir Act, as it has so often before, to protect Americans from the harms posed by air pollutiair pollution.

The law reduces air pollution controls, including those environmental protections of the Clean Air Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcemeair pollution controls, including those environmental protections of the Clean Air Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcemeAir Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcemeair and budget cuts for enforcement.

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.

«The Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act championed by Sen. Ed Muskie have provided essential protections for our natural resources for generations.

Comments on Draft Technical Support Document for Endangerment Analysis for Greenhouse Gas Emissions under the Clean Air Act, unpublished report prepared for the US Environmental Protection Agency but not representing the Agency's views, final version dated March 16, 2009.

In particular, the American Lung Association calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to review and strengthen its certification standards for woodstoves and other wood - burning devices every eight years as required by the Clean Air Act.

[3] U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, «Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act,» in Federal Register, Vol.

In the US, Republican members of Congress are asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to forestall any effort to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act until a full, transparent investigation has taken place on allegations that fudged data played a role in establishing the link between industrial CO2 emissions and global warming.

In the wake of the recent «endangerment finding, the IPI analysts conclude that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sufficient authority under the Clean Air Act to create a cap - and - trade system all by itself, without Congressional input:

The Environmental Protection Agency has submitted a «finding» to the White House Office of Management and Budget that will force the Obama administration to decide whether to limit greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.