Sentences with phrase «protection agency rules»

Although every region of the country claims it has adequate generation for even the hottest days of summer, each ISO is also looking forward as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules will take affect in coming years.

Leaked documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that ALEC's anti-environmental jamboree was inundated with coal money and featured an Indiana regulator advising coal utilities on delaying US Environmental Protection Agency rules to control greenhouse gas emissions and hazardous air pollution.

Among Peabody's beneficiaries, the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has insisted — wrongly — that carbon emissions are not a threat but «the elixir of life» while the American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules cutting emissions from power plants.

Led by Sen. James Inhofe, who has called climate change «the greatest hoax» committed against humanity, the powerful Environment and Public Works Committee plans to explore a wide range of measures that would slow or halt Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

These included the State Policy Network and the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, which worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and are seeking to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, as well as the Congress for Racial Equality, which was a major civil rights organisation in the 1960s.

The funds went to building a network of thinktanks and activist groups that worked to defeat climate bills in Congress and mobilized against Environmental Protection Agency rules to reduce carbon pollution from power plants due to be finalised in the summer of 2015.

The Guardian uncovered in February 2015 that «Berman has secretly routed funding for at least 16 studies and launched at least five front groups attacking Environmental Protection Agency rules cutting carbon dioxide from power plants.»

He says opponents of the new Environmental Protection Agency rules, should take note of that.

New York City Housing Authority Chairwoman Shola Olatoye said on Friday that the agency has been out of compliance with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules requiring training for work involving lead paint since 2014.

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Grimes has made it a point to draw a bold line between herself and the White House - most recently on the Obama administration's new Environmental Protection Agency rule that would drastically reduce carbon emission from power plants.

Energy In Depth, the communications and research arm of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, published a lengthy response to the Integrity Project's report and criticized it for including diesel use that occurred prior to a 2014 Environmental Protection Agency rule clarifying the types of chemicals considered «diesel fuels.»

WASHINGTON — Officials weighing federal applications by utilities to build new coal - fired power plants can not consider their greenhouse gas output, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ruled late Thursday.

Last August, a U.S. federal appeals court rejected an Environmental Protection Agency rule that would have required manufacturers to replace HFCs with more climate - friendly substitutes, saying the agency lacks the regulatory authority to compel companies to make the switch.

The Environmental Protection Agency ruled that new power plants are not required to install technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejecting an argument from environmental groups.

Though Congress could theoretically overturn an Environmental Protection Agency rule to regulate existing utilities under the Clean Air Act, Democrats have the votes they need in the Senate to block such an effort.

Not exact matches

A trade association representing General Motors (gm), Toyota (tm), Volkswagen (vlkpf) and nine other automakers on Tuesday asked new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to withdraw an Obama administration decision to lock in vehicle emission rules through 2025.

In addition, airlines are under increased pressure to reduce carbon emissions by new government mandates like the Environmental Protection Agency's new draft rules announced earlier this month.

Chuang ruled that the agencies were likely to succeed in proving that the travel ban portion of the executive order was intended to be a ban on Muslims and, as a result, violates the U.S. Constitution's religious freedom protection.

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 Rule.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing new rules to curtail payday lending practices the agency says can lead borrowers into long - term «debt traps.»

The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday proposed a series of regulatory relief measures for small institutions, especially those in rural areas, to help them provide credit while they try to follow the agency's tough mortgage rules.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has scrapped an Obama - era rule requiring mining operations to prove they can clean up future pollution

Last week Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dropped the Obama - era rule, claiming modern mining practices, as well as other state and federal requirements, made the financial responsibility rule superfluous.

The lawsuit filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, seeks to set aside and hold unlawful the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to weaken the existing clean car rules.

The agency's success in defeating many of the privacy protections offered by encryption does not change the rules that prohibit the deliberate targeting of Americans» e-mails or phone calls without a warrant.

Several other administration policies are likely to have a greater impact on global greenhouse - gas emissions, including the Environmental Protection Agency's rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants and its first - ever carbon limits on cars and light trucks.

The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) writes investor protection rules and other rules regulating broker - dealers and banks in the United States municipal securities market, including tax - exempt and taxable municipal bonds, municipal notes, and other securities issued by states, cities, and counties or their agencies to help finance public projects or for other public policy purposes.

In the ruling, Judge Andrew Goodman wrote that the agency violated the family's religious protections and ordered them to remove the fostering ban from their file: «Their constitutional rights of freedom of religion and freedom of expression have been infringed and must be remedied in a manner that is appropriate and just in the circumstances.

The Environmental Protection Agency implemented the Lead and Copper Rule in 1991, and is now considering updating it.

U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn ruled Monday in favor of the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies.

A Lockport company has been fined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating chemical safety rules for handling the potentially deadly gas phosgene.

Erie County, New York - Legislator Patrick Burke who garnered national recognition for his ban on microbead plastics, has submitted a resolution expressing his opposition to the Trump Administration's proposed elimination of the Clean Water Rule, as well as the stark reductions in Environmental Protection Agency funding that would cut funds for the Great Lakes pollution cleanup by 97 %.

In early 2014, months before the DOH staff member suggested the possible use of PFOA in Petersburgh in the email with colleagues, the federal Environmental Protection Agency already had issued a guideline on the pollutant, ruling that it could be dangerous to humans.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

Countdown Begins on Remodeling, Repairing and Paint Rules «New EPA Regs Aimed at Decreasing Lead Poisoning» In less than a month, all contractors who perform renovations, painting and remodeling that might disturb lead - based paint in houses, child care facilities and schools built before 1978 will be required to meet stricter guidelines under the new regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Oneida County Health Department officials said today.

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

And tough new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency on power plant emissions will make closing Indian Point that much harder, if the state is to do so and still meet its other environmental goals.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's new lead in drinking water rules that were set to go into effect in January, hydrants as they're made now would be deemed unusable because they contain too high of an amount of lead.

While many on the left embraced the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules to reduce coal - burning power plant carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, some red state Democrats couldn't put enough distance between themselves and the Obama administration.

Among local issues that drew attention at the debate was the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in shaping the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's filtration avoidance determination, which gives the city oversight of environmental rules in its upstate watershed communities.

The Environmental Protection Agency is getting ready to drop a new rule drastically limiting the amount of carbon that new coal - burning power plants can emit.

I strongly oppose efforts to weaken existing safe water standards or undermine the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to enforce water quality rules.

Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is gearing up to tighten federal stormwater rules that have been criticized by environmental groups and deemed ineffective by a national panel of researchers.

Update: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a draft rule on «Strengthening Transparency and Validity in Regulatory Science» to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the White House's Office of Managment and Budget on 19 April, reports E&E News.

The Environmental Protection Agency has new rules for how much carbon dioxide power plants can spew.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon) by 2016.

In its first case confronting global warming, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are air pollutants that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate.

In a simultaneous announcement, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rules for carrying out a 2007 law that requires a threefold increase in the use of renewable fuels, reaching 36 billion gallons by 2022.