Sentences with phrase «national emissions standards»

Excludes the following units from consideration as major emitting facilities or major stationary sources (or parts thereof) for purposes of compliance with provisions concerning prevention of significant deterioration of air quality and plan requirements for nonattainment areas: those that achieve a specified limit on particulate matter emissions or certain national emissions standards for hazardous pollutants or those with properly operated and maintained equipment to limit particulate matter emissions and that use good combustion practices to minimize carbon monoxide emissions.

As Wehrum, Pruitt and EPA policymakers work to figure out the new national emissions standards for cars and light trucks, they are hearing from groups including the American Consumer Institute and its Koch - tied coalition on the importance of revoking the California waiver.

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 automakers might just have their fingers crossed for Obama's proposed national emissions standards, as well — they're on record saying they'd much prefer that option.

The bulk of these regulations require national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants.

NRDC goes on to recommend that GM and Ford should adopt a uniform national emission standard by taking the high ground and apply the California emissions standards nationwide.

After much speculation, news just broke that Obama is going to announce a national emissions standard tomorrow — and it's going to be tough.

What's especially interesting about all this, however, is that such a groundbreaking finding will probably have a major impact at the national level as well: Obama is leaning towards establishing a national emissions standard, so California's report is bound to form something of a precedent.

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The EPA with cooperation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vnational program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vehicles.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced a lawsuit by California and 17 other states against the Trump administration to protect national vehicle emission standards from being rolled back by the federal government.

President Obama's plan for national standards to curb power plant emissions is based, in part, on a cap and trade type program already existence in New York.

The President's program will accelerate increases in fuel economy and impose the first - ever national greenhouse gas emission standards on cars and trucks

But Aldy says that a National Clean Energy Standard scheme «can be more cost - effective than exercising EPA authority to go after emissions.»

During that same period, these companies spent $ 45 million on ads for clean coal and $ 125 million in lobbying dollars to defeat a national renewable energy standard and federal legislation to place mandatory limits on CO2 emissions.

Warsaw (Reuters)- Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

The EPA eventually ruled that the emissions from this power plant alone caused the violations of the SO2 national ambient air quality standards in the downwind state, New Jersey.

The auto standards are up for an obligatory mid-term review — the EPA will decide whether to adjust the emissions standards and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will announce its final fuel economy standards for model year 2022 — 2025 vehicles.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

The airline industry has favored a global standard over individual national standards since airlines operate all over the world and want to avoid a patchwork of rules and measures, such as taxes, charges and emissions trading programs.

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Neutered two years ago from the collapse of new - vehicle sales amid a foundering economy, auto makers dropped their historically combative stance over stricter rules and gave over to an historic hike in CAFE in return for a single national tailpipe emissions standard.

On October 25, 2010, DOT and EPA announced the first national standards to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel efficiency of heavy - duty trucks and buses.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation today announced the first national standards to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve fuel efficiency of heavy - duty trucks and buses.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the California Air Resource Board (CARB) today took the first step in the mid-term evaluation of the National Program for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for light duty cars and trucks by releasing a draft Technical Assessment Report (TAR) for public comment.

California has started trends in emissions control that became national standards.

For a long time now, California has always been allowed to set fuel economy and emissions standards that exceed the national standards, and auto makers simply have had to deal (usually by making all of their cars comply with the California standard).

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Air quality improvements will continue as states add even more emission control technologies to achieve ozone standards set in 2008 under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program.

On December 1, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed light - duty vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards and corporate average fuel economy standards for light - duty vehicles for model year 2017 — 2025.

Regulating auto emissions is complicated by the fact that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is already charged with setting new standards for cars and light trucks, under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) system.

The Evergreen State has a relatively small emissions profile by national standards.

2011 (August) National Program Standards Phase I (Heavy Duty) Sets Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicles fuel efficiency and tailpipe emissions standards estimated to reduce CO2 emissions by about 270 million metric tons and save about 530 million barrels of oil over the life of the vehicles built in model years 2014 - 2018.

One step Australia has taken to reduce its global warming emissions is implementing a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES).

With the waiver in hand, California can continue to enforce current greenhouse gas emissions standards, despite whatever the EPA sets as the new national standards for model years 2022 - 2025.

Requires States to ensure in implementation plans that: (1) in an attainment or unclassifiable area, any emissions increase from the construction or modification of an affected unit will not result in exceeding a national ambient air quality standard; and (2) in a nonattainment area, the emissions increase will not interfere with a program to assure the achievement of such a standard.

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Thankfully, in November 2007 the Center won a major lawsuit against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when it set unreasonably low national fuel economy standards for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.

Although there have been steps taken by individual states (i.e. RGGI and California) to regulate GHG emissions, we have had little success in implementing measures to reduce emissions on a national level, other than piecemeal steps like higher vehicle fuel efficiency standards which are often implemented for other non-climate reasons.

These values were used to produce a comprehensive net present value for the standard based on the full national impact over the lifetime of units affected, including monetized full fuel cycle emissions impacts.

On April 1st, USDOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the EPA issued harmonized fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for cars and light trucks of model years 2012 through 2016.

On her watch, EPA is writing first - time national carbon - pollution standards for power plants, the biggest source of unregulated greenhouse - gas emissions.

Thankfully, in November 2007 the Center and our allies prevailed in Center for Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a major lawsuit filed against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when setting unreasonably low national fuel economy stNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a major lawsuit filed against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when setting unreasonably low national fuel economy stnational fuel economy standards.

A lack of national restrictions on carbon - intensive sectors may also lead to a failure by German companies to meet the emissions standards of other nations.

Plan of action - CO2 emissions tax, deregulate low polluting technology and remove current barriers of new technology per usual pick and choose government interference, facilitate standards to coordinate national and international energy development, subsidize ultra low polluting power generators and fuel to poor countries, investment dollars awarded to highest rate of return for CO2 emission reduction upon global market, rate tax expenditures and promising technology by independent accounting agency bonded to ensure loss of political and personal cronyism influence.

Recognizing this situation, and considering the national inventory practices, the Corporate Standard requires that CO2 emissions from biomass combustion be reported separately from the other scopes in a memo item.

The agreement would therefore include common international accounting and reporting standards for countries taking on targets in four key areas: 1) comprehensive reporting and review of national GHG emissions; 2) common standards for quantifying, reporting, and reviewing emission reductions, including from changes in land use, land - use change, and forestry; 3) common standards for national GHG registries and 4) common methodologies for estimating emission reductions from developing country projects or programs funded by developed countries (known as offsets).

For example, a 2009 UCS analysis found that a 25 percent by 2025 national renewable electricity standard would lower power plant CO2 emissions 277 million metric tons annually by 2025 — the equivalent of the annual output from 70 typical (600 MW) new coal plants [4].

Significant emission reductions from the transportation sector will help the Bay Area attain and maintain state and national air quality standards and reduce greenhouse gases.Bay Area residents and visitors can learn more about the bike share system at www.bayareabikeshare.com, scheduled to go live later today, facebook.com/bayareabikeshare,and @sfbayareabikeshare on Twitter.The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is the regional agency responsible for protecting air quality in the nine - county Bay Area.

Supported by automakers, unions, national security groups, and environmentalists, the standards (known as the» National Program») set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the Unitednational security groups, and environmentalists, the standards (known as the» National Program») set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the UnitedNational Program») set fuel economy and global warming emission targets, based on vehicle size, for new cars and trucks sold in the United States.