Sentences with phrase «us air pollution standards»

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

The new critique comes almost a week after it was revealed that the EPA had accused Global Companies, which operates a train terminal at the Port of Albany, of violating air pollution standards regarding emissions from the dozens of oil trains that come through there each week.

In the boundary layer, air pollution standards are exceeded throughout the region, caused by West and East European pollution from the north.

In September, President Obama rejected new air pollution standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

«This report begins to quantify that toll and provides information that, we believe, should inform the setting of national air pollution standards.»

She and a colleague at the NRDC wrote a book, Respirable Particles, in 1979, which warned that the government's air pollution standards for American cities and industries were failing to curb the very smallest particles.

All six cities met US air pollution standards.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

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 1990.

«But many European countries are unable to meet the air pollution standards they have agreed to in the European Union.

The rise of renewables, tightening air pollution standards and shale - driven reductions in gas prices saw coal's share of the US power mix fall from 46 % in 2009 to 39 % in 2014.

As part of the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it is proposing to improve its air pollution standards for newly - built municipal landfills, requiring them to capture landfill gas, which contains methane and carbon dioxide.

In February 2015, the EPA responded to similar attacks on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

The Clean Air Act empowers the federal government to set tailpipe emissions standards, but a waiver granted to California allows the state to impose stricter air pollution standards than those set by the feds.

Tough new amendments to the Clean Air Act followed in December 1970 and by April 1971, EPA announced the first air pollution standards.

The UK is one of several European governments allowing energy industry representatives to help draw up the European Union's (EU) new air pollution standards, a Greenpeace investigation has found.

There should be limits but other than international air pollution standards that deal with real pollutants, it will be a long row to hoe.

There is historical validation of this effect, with California repeatedly having increased the stringency of its local air pollution standards, followed by parallel Federal action under the Clean Air Act.

Oil and gas standards: In April 2012, U.S. EPA finalized air pollution standards for the oil and gas industry that would capture up to 95 % of volatile organic compounds from new hydraulically fractured wells each year and in the process also reduce methane emissions.

Coal plants nationwide already only run around half of the time, nearly every Indian coal plant violates the country's new air pollution standard, and India's Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has proposed closing nearly 50 GW of coal capacity by 2027.

The rise of renewables, tightening air pollution standards and shale - driven reductions in gas prices saw coal's share of the US power mix fall from 46 % in 2009 to 39 % in 2014.

71 percent of African Americans live in counties that violate federal air pollution standards, as compared to 58 percent of the white population.

Lots of stuff travels to other hemispheres through the ocean and air — California gets enough Chinese coal pollution to challenge the state's air pollution standards.

Right now, we're working with a leading manufacturer to deliver a new natural gas furnace that reduces emissions by 65 percent and is one of several models that now meet the state's ambitious air pollution standards.

These are things like voting to end mining regulations that protect people's homes from corporations» toxic dredge, that protect the water quality in rivers, that protect air pollution standards in cities.

65 % of voters surveyed are confident that the health and environmental benefits of air pollution standards outweigh the costs of complying with them.

Add tougher air pollution standards in the United States, and it's easy to see why the diesel car has remained a rarity on American roads.

Clean Power Plan; Waters of the United States Rule; The 2015 ozone air pollution standards.

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

«A whole generation of young people in our cities will potentially have their health impaired by pollution before the government meets air quality safety standards,» committee chair Joan Walley MP said.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

Air pollution in Beijing routinely hits levels ten times higher than WHO - advised standards.

Leading a coalition of 11 states, AG Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit to compel the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot.

«Volkswagen lied to authorities and their consumers by cheating on emission standards, and they contributed to the air pollution harming the health of all breathers,» said Caitlin O'Brien, an environmental health association at the group.

Its Clean Energy Standard initiative positions the nuclear program as a bridge to a clean energy future because nuclear energy does not produce air pollution.

A refinery operating in Richmond since 1901, first as Standard Oil and later as the Chevron Corporation, had long been the city's biggest single source of tax revenues — and air pollution.

Florverde standards include minimized water use via drip irrigation and rainwater collection, boilers with air pollution filters, integrated pest control to reduce pesticide use, and environmentally sensitive waste disposal.

And so does setting ambitious goals: Early on, I doubted industry could meet some of the aggressive targets that EPA set for reducing air pollution, but I ultimately saw these goals spur innovation and creative solutions that led to setting even higher standards.

Cleaning the air Because air quality in half of India's cities suffers from particulate pollution 1.5 times global standards, a shift to greener rickshaws could help dent emissions there sizably.

Now, direct evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air), a 10 - year epidemiological study of more than 6,000 people from six U.S. states, shows that air pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerosAir Pollution (MESA Air), a 10 - year epidemiological study of more than 6,000 people from six U.S. states, shows that air pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerosAir), a 10 - year epidemiological study of more than 6,000 people from six U.S. states, shows that air pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerosair pollution — even at levels below regulatory standards — accelerates the progression of atherosclerosis.

Up to one - third of Europeans who live in urban areas are exposed to air pollution levels above European Union (EU) standards.

«The main goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»

«Air pollution below EPA standards linked with higher death rates.»

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

«Particulate air pollution is like lead pollution, there is no evidence of a safe threshold even at levels far below current standards, including in the rural areas we investigated,» said Schwartz.

New York City's Clean Heat Program was launched in 2010 to eliminate the use of residual diesel fuel oils — diesel - based fuels that remain after gasoline and distillate fuels have been removed from crude — in residential buildings, in order to help address city air pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarair pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarAir Act standards.

«Continuing to identify subgroups that are most susceptible to the effects of air pollution is critically important for setting pollution standards and regulations so that those who are most vulnerable can be protected,» said Hart.

China will raise standards for the production of cement, batteries, leather and heavy metals as part of its efforts to cut air, water and soil pollution, the environment ministry said on Friday.