Sentences with phrase «act on air pollution»

Not exact matches

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

The back - and - forth debate on health is critical to the Clean Power Plan because the provision of the Clean Air Act the Obama administration is invoking, Section 111 (d), according to EPA's website, «requires EPA to develop regulations for categories of sources which cause or significantly contribute to air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 1Air Act the Obama administration is invoking, Section 111 (d), according to EPA's website, «requires EPA to develop regulations for categories of sources which cause or significantly contribute to air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 1air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 10).

But even though four decades of Clean Air Act programs have already done a lot to improve our health, environment leaders and public health advocates alike would like to see lawmakers put in place even more stringent rules to reduce pollution of all kinds and put our economy on a cleaner, greener path overall.

Failure to act now on high levels of air pollution has the potential to have a detrimental impact on children's health.»

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 amended prior law to exclude the following types of facilities from those which can be financed on a tax - exempt basis: sports facilities; convention and trade show facilities; air and water pollution control facilities; privately owned airport, dock, wharf and mass - commuting facilities; and most parking facilities, among others.

Today, it called on Congress to keep the EPA and the Clean Air Act strong, as both have provided invaluable pollution protections and health benefits to the American public in general.

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

Clean Air Act which will increase pollution) 13) timing press releases so bad news will miss the news cycle on long weekends, especially when they plan on not enforcing environmental laws 14) press not reporting on the outrageous use of signing statements (president basically saying he intends to violate his oath of office) 15) press rarely reporting on anti-war demonstrations 16) Whitehouse use of Fox News (sic) and right - wing demagogue radio to get its message out 17) right - wing attempt to take over NPR and PBS.

On the other hand, so long as the land management agency is trying to suppress a wildfire, the pollution impacts from those wildfires can be excluded from the measurements of ambient air quality that are used to determine whether places such as the Central Valley are in compliance with the Clean Air air quality that are used to determine whether places such as the Central Valley are in compliance with the Clean Air Air Act

The law reduces air pollution controls, including those environmental protections of the Clean Air Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcemeair pollution controls, including those environmental protections of the Clean Air Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcemeAir Act, including caps on toxins in the air and budget cuts for enforcemeair and budget cuts for enforcement.

Air pollution is also on the agenda of UNEA, and the meeting is expected to call on countries to act swiftly and request UNEP to support them in their actions.

On the industrial side, the Clean Air Act demonstrates that regulatory policies can reduce pollution without any compelling evidence for the kinds of economic trauma sometimes anticipated.

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.&raqAir Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqair 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.&raqAir Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.&raqair pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA is required to grant California a waiver on air pollution emissions standards if the state has «compelling and extraordinary circumstances,» which California argued a decade ago, and which the Obama administration agreed that it doAir Act, the EPA is required to grant California a waiver on air pollution emissions standards if the state has «compelling and extraordinary circumstances,» which California argued a decade ago, and which the Obama administration agreed that it doair pollution emissions standards if the state has «compelling and extraordinary circumstances,» which California argued a decade ago, and which the Obama administration agreed that it does.

This evening, shortly after George W. Bush signed the weakened Energy Bill into law, EPA administrator Stephen Johnson announced that California (and the 16 states that had pledged to adopt California's standards) will not be granted a waiver from the clean air act to put stricter pollution controls on vehicles and drive a higher CAFE standard than is included -LSB-...]

The Clean Air Act allows people who are affected by illegal air pollution to hold polluters accountable by having courts impose penalties on thAir Act allows people who are affected by illegal air pollution to hold polluters accountable by having courts impose penalties on thair pollution to hold polluters accountable by having courts impose penalties on them.

-- Based on the scientific review, the agencies may, by rule, modify the definition of «renewable biomass» from Federal lands in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act and section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 as appropriate to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

On the face of it, the Supreme Court seemed to be considering last Wednesday whether the EPA must / can / or can not regulate global warming - causing carbon dioxide pollution under the Clean Air Act.

Officials in Trenton used the Clean Air Act's Good Neighbor provision to petition for action on pollution from a Pennsylvania plant.

In 2007, the Supreme Court instructed the Bush administration to determine whether greenhouse gases should be regulated under the Clean Air Act, but last July, then - EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson announced that the agency would instead seek months of public comment on the threat posed by global - warming pollution.

The bill preserves key Clean Air Act tools for sources not in the program, and it calls on EPA to continue setting tough emission standards to reduce global - warming pollution from cars and trucks.

He implemented historic improvements in fuel - efficiency standards for automobiles, and instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward on the regulation of global - warming pollution under the Clean Air Act.

For decades, Morgan Lewis has represented and counseled companies and industry associations on regulations, litigation, and other issues related to the federal Clean Air Act and state air pollution control statutAir Act and state air pollution control statutair pollution control statutes.