TH: I understand the car was redesigned to meet
U.S. Emissions requirements, which resulted in lower fuel economy.
Not exact matches
For the fourth consecutive year,
U.S. automakers have exceeded the federal government's
requirements for greenhouse gas
emissions, and they have also achieved record fuel efficiency.
Land Rover never built the original Freelander to pass
U.S. safety and
emissions requirements.
The passenger car will be powered by an all - new Alliance engine co-developed with its partner, Renault, and will clear stringent
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Tier II Bin 5
emissions requirements.
The dust still hasn't settled from VW's diesel scandal, but now another automaker may be using similar software in the
U.S. to get its diesel vehicles to pass
emissions requirements.
In a further effort to keep the S30 models sporting in the face of increasingly stringent
U.S. emission and safety
requirements, engine size was again increased, this time to 2.8 L.
Noticeably missing from Tuesday's pledge were specifics on how the
U.S. plans to fund its pledge to a floundering international climate change adaptation fund, for example, a key
requirement that poor countries have attached to the current international negotiations, intended to partially account for the historical inequality of
emissions.
The initiatives still allow for a major expansion of
U.S. aviation being planned under NextGen (the Next Generation Air Transportation System) without any accompanying
requirement for curtailing
emissions.
The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must issue regulations reducing the allowable
emissions from products containing or using HFCs; mandating tighter reduction, recovery and reuse
requirements; and barring the use of HFCs where low global warming alternatives are commercially available.
They include those increasing coal taxes in India (and Korea, where the levy increased to US$ 21 / t in 2015 from US$ 15 / t in 2014); moves being made to a national
emissions - trading scheme like those being undertaken in China and Korea» tightening
emissions requirements on coal - fired power generation in the
U.S. and India; greater regulation of mine waste disposal ponds in Brazil and the U.S; and greater scrutiny of coal mine rehabilitation subsidies and coal company leasing schemes in the
U.S.
In fact, if all set - top boxes in the
U.S. met ENERGY STAR
requirements, consumer energy cost savings would grow to about $ 580 million each year, reducing greenhouse gas
emissions equivalent to those from about 790,000 cars.