Sentences with phrase «air act rules»

That's because the new Clean Air Act rules won't just cut down on greenhouse gas emissions, but they'll cut down on other harmful pollutants as well — and save millions of lives in the long term.

The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air Act rules that would hold the nation's biggest polluters to stricter standards.

The Senate majority leader faced off with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on Clean Air Act rules.

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

Kavanaugh, a Bush appointee who sits on the court that hears challenges to Clean Air Act rules, became known as a vocal critic of Obama EPA rules.

Not exact matches

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.

Reuters has reported the draft would assert that a 1975 law bars California from imposing its own state emissions rules, as it has long done nonetheless under a series of Clean Air Act waivers.

The Civil Aviation Act 1982 provides that no action for trespass or nuisance can be taken as long as an aircraft observes the rules of the Air and Air Traffic Control Regulations, which also cover ground movements.

Reports filtered the air yesterday that the Federal Court of Appeal nullified Akpabio's election adding that violations to the Electoral Act during the senatorial election between Mr. Akpabio and the All Progressives Congress candidate Inibehe Okori informed their ruling.

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The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteair pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteAir Act as industry groups and some states contend.

Under a regime using the Clean Air Act that the Obama Administration has already begun to roll out, the rules could cut as much as 800 million metric tons of emissions annually by 2030.

Were the court to rule that pollutants did constitute a nuisance, it could give emitters» opponents a tool apart from the Clean Air Act to tackle greenhouse gases.

Legal experts note that judges» opinions in environmental cases won't necessarily fall strictly along ideological lines, but that conservative judges are often more likely to reject arguments calling for more regulation or trying to fit climate change rules within the existing Clean Air Act.

In 40 years of Clean Air Act regulation, she noted, regulators have never been flatfooted enough to allow environmental rules to dim the nation's lights.

The case was referred to the European Court of Justice, which ruled in 2014 that national courts can and should ensure that governments act to get air pollution below legal limits «as soon as possible».

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Aair toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air AAir Act.

But even though four decades of Clean Air Act programs have already done a lot to improve our health, environment leaders and public health advocates alike would like to see lawmakers put in place even more stringent rules to reduce pollution of all kinds and put our economy on a cleaner, greener path overall.

Train also cites the Supreme Court's 2007 ruling, Massachusetts v. EPA (549 U.S. 497, 2007), as proof that Congress intended to regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act.

-LSB-...] Third, although Baucus may not acknowledge it, his «too much power into few hands» argument is tacit criticism of the Supreme Court's ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA, which both authorized and pushed EPA to regulate greenhouse gases via the Clean Air Act.

The Department of Transportation is amending its Air Carrier Access Act (ACAA) rules to apply to foreign carriers.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans to issue a final rule by the end of 2014 to implement section 403 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 regarding the carriage of musical instruments as carry - on baggage or checked baggage on commercial passenger flights operated by U.S. air carriers.

On June 28, 2007, Tim Maddox and Xiomara Osorio (collectively referred to as «Complainants») filed a complaint under 14 CFR Part 382, the rule implementing the Air Carrier Access Act («ACAA»).

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined Spirit Airlines $ 100,000 for failing to appropriately record and respond to complaints about the carrier's treatment of passengers with disabilities, violating DOT's rules implementing the Air Carrier Access Act which prohibits discrimination in air travel on the basis of disabiliAir Carrier Access Act which prohibits discrimination in air travel on the basis of disabiliair travel on the basis of disability.

I suspect passage of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) Reinstatement Act of 2008 might have something to do with pursueing «liquification» investment.

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.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has bluntly rejected challenges to the Obama Administration's rules restricting carbon dioxide emissions as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

She and many other legal experts believe that under the Clean Air Act, the EPA can also administer a national cap - and - trade program by writing federal rules to unify independent regional carbon markets.

This is why and how such an approach could work: Supreme Court Decision Sets Legal Precedent Since the 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court that carbon dioxide emissions are a pollutant subject to regulation by the EPA under the Clean Air Act, a legal precedent exists,

Here's another possibility: In 1970, Congress amended the Clean Air Act to tackle, among other pollutants, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and lead (the new rules were slowly phased in over the next decade).

The US Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that carbon dioxide, for law - making purposes, must be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and can thus be regulated.

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.

Despite the 2005 deadlock, the Bush Administration moved to implement key measures of the Clear Skies Act, such as the NOx and SO2 trading provision of the bill, which became the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), and the mercury trading provision of the bill, known as the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR).

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 pollutiAir Act amendments of 1990, will only target the most significant sources of toxic air pollutiair pollution.

However, before considering CO2 as a «criteria pollutant» subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act, the Supreme Court ruling requires the EPA to demonstrate by independent research that higher levels of CO2 are damaging to «human health and welfare.»

Developed as a component of the Clean Air Act, the Regional Haze Rule is meant to protect 156 national parks and wilderness areas — including Utah's «Mighty Five» national parks — from visibility - impairing haze.

Most EPA rules have a layer of insulation from Congressional meddling as long as Senate Democrats retain the ability to filibuster legislation that would repeal bedrock environmental laws like the Clean Air Act.

In 2007, Bush called on EPA and the departments of Energy, Agriculture, and Transportation to establish emission standards for motor vehicles after the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had an obligation to do so under the Clean Air Act.

Through case studies, key recommendations for new rules, and descriptions of best practices, this working paper can help state officials to determine how best to structure future state - level policies — including measures for complying with forthcoming national emissions standards under the Clean Air Act — to reduce methane emissions from natural gas development.

The case was eventually appealed to the Supreme Court, and in April 2007 the Court ruled that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are pollutants and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act (CAA).

After the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v EPA (2007) that greenhouse gases could be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Michigan Rep. John Dingell, who authored the Act, said that, «This [regulating greenhouse gases] is not what was intended by the Congress.»

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Air Act required the EPA to regulate heat - trapping greenhouse gases if they posed a threat to public health (which, most climate scientists agree, they do).

But, after a tense meeting with Republican governors, who threatened to launch a campaign to repeal the Clean Air Act, then - EPA head Carol Browner made the car - pooling voluntary and relaxed the monitoring rules.

Section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act is likely to be the authority upon which EPA relies to draft the rule.

In 2007, in Massachusetts v. EPA, the US Supreme Court ruled that CO2 qualifies as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and that the EPA must regulate it if it determines it to be a danger to public healair pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and that the EPA must regulate it if it determines it to be a danger to public healAir Act, and that the EPA must regulate it if it determines it to be a danger to public health.

At the direction of President Obama, on August 3, 2015, the EPA released the final rule on the Clean Power Plan for existing power plants [under section 111 (d) of the Clean Air Act].

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.

We successfully challenged the Bush administration's refusal to let California implement its own, stricter - than - national tailpipe emissions limits under the Clean Air Act, and in June 2009 the EPA issued a waiver to let California enforce its own automobile emissions rules, which also allowed a dozen other states to enforce the same rules.

-- Based on the scientific review, the agencies may, by rule, modify the definition of «renewable biomass» from Federal lands in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act and section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 as appropriate to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.