Sentences with phrase «abatement efforts»

But this is just more sleight of hand, to distract us from the fact that all of us will be made poorer by abatement efforts.

These abatement efforts could easily increase gas prices by as much as $ 20 a gallon, along with similar increases in electricity and natural gas prices.

However, this could easily be a map of the pain created by CO2 abatement efforts, with the most pain felt in red and the least in green.

Off the highway, Nissan's sound - abatement efforts are most evident in the quieted mechanical noises from the transmission and all - wheel - drive system; they used to whine, clash and bark at low speeds.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

The state also provides $ 500,000 towards lead abatement efforts for land banks to rehabilitate foreclosed and abandoned properties.

The theory of prices versus quantities for pollution control (Weitzman 1974) shows that such uncertainty will invariably lead the policy to under - or overshoot the optimum: imposing a quantitative target will lead to higher or lower marginal abatement costs than expected, while a given tax rate will lead to greater or lesser abatement effort than expected.

The Secretariat's 2.5 GtCO2 estimate of the abatement effort implied by the Chinese pledge is calculated relative to a constructed reference case (not the IEA WEO2009) that explicitly excludes the effort associated with China's existing energy intensity policy.

The Secretariats 2.5 GtCO2 estimate of the abatement effort implied by the Chinese pledge is calculated relative to a constructed reference case (not the IEA WEO2009) that explicitly excludes the effort associated with China's existing energy intensity policy.

Not exact matches

Now none of this tells us about whether particular efforts at waste reduction or pollution abatement are good or bad.

de Blasio emphasized the preliminary nature of his information on the investigation, but pointed out that New York City has long had stringent laws on abating lead paint and a resulting longterm NYCHA effort on abatement.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to revise the long - standing tax abatement afforded to condominium and co-op owners in the city is meeting fierce resistance in...

I am pleased the Erie County Industrial Development Agency recently approved a new round of tax abatements in an effort to show community support for GM and to provide the necessary incentives to make this project a reality.»

A coalition of business entities ranging from the Business Council to Unshackle Upstate are pushing back against an effort to include a prevailing wage component in the renewal of the 421a tax abatement.

REBNY's spending comes as state lawmakers could yet determine the fate of a range of measures the real estate in New York has been closely watching, including an effort to revive the 421a tax abatement.

With just two days until the 421 - a tax abatements expire, Capital has learned a last - ditch effort is underway in Albany to overhaul the controversial development subsidy program before the legislative session ends next Wednesday.

The issue is immense and there are many older homes in our area needing inspection and potential lead abatement work, so this funding will critically strengthen our efforts and allow us to help more homeowners and landlords to recognize and ameliorate their lead problems.»

Community partners in the lead - abatement and remediation effort include Heart of the City Neighborhood Services, Jericho Road Community Health Center, Belmont Housing Resources, Inc., West Side Neighborhood Housing, and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.

REBNY has traditionally focused its lobbying efforts — and dollars — on candidates for state office rather than in New York City, for two main reasons, Lerner said: First, the city's relatively stringent campaign finance laws have historically made it harder for special interest groups to gain as much influence here; and second, although many key issues — such as 421a tax abatements — affect only New York City, they are decided at the state level.

De Blasio's last housing fight led him in June to angrily accuse Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of carrying out a «vendetta» when whey clashed on the mayor's efforts to amend a real estate tax abatement program and win stronger rent control laws.

Ms. Been argued that the city could use a toolkit of zoning, tax abatements and public financing to encourage the private market to accommodate more low - income people — but said efforts to stop the city's shifting real estate landscape are futile.

«The penalty reduction is in consideration of the Employer's prompt abatement of the cited hazards and efforts to prevent their recurrence,» the settlement agreement states.

Hosler recalls another colleague, this one working in hail abatement research in Pennsylvania, who ran afoul of local fruit farmers who worried that the effort might cause a drought and ruin their livelihood.

If we fail to address foreclosure abatement during the current window of opportunity (early to mid-2009), there may not be time for legislative efforts to contain the resulting fallout.

Marginal abatement costs are the additional costs required for additional reductions; this approach considers previous efforts.

This approach seeks reduction efforts that are fair for all industrialized countries, by equally sharing the marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emission reductions, aiming at a 25 percent reduction from 1990 for these countries.

It should not, therefore, be surprising that formal efforts to weigh the near - term costs of emissions abatement against the long - term benefits from avoided global warming show few net benefits, even in theory.

This leaves a potentially cost - effective source of GHG abatement on the table, one that complements and reinforces other GHG reduction efforts.

«The court's decision to dismiss the lawsuit regarding the Zero Emission Credit segment of New York's Clean Energy Standard (CES) is good news for New York's climate efforts and citizens across the state because it preserves the most cost - effective source of carbon abatement available to consumers.

In an effort to increase drug abatement effectiveness in the state of New Jersey, Governor Christie signed bills into law in April 2015.