Sentences with phrase «air act»

It is Federal law as part of the clean air act.

Using regulations like the clean air act, which was never designed to tackle a problem as complex as climate change, strikes me as a very poor way of reducing emissions.

(this is a false urban legend) Gore claims you can easily see the impact of the US Clean Air Act in ice cores.

Mandatory carbon trading programs, such as the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that began in 2005, have their roots in the U.S. Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.

At the time, the outcry over air quality lead to the U.S. Clean Air Act of 1970.

If a pollutant endangers the climate, the Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate it, which is what EPA is doing.

Assemblyman Keith Wright's habit of smoking in Albany's legislative office building has neighbors and staffers fuming, say sources who claim the Harlem Democrat has been flouting the state's Clean Indoor Air Act for years.

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states contend.

During the past decade, NOx concentrations have fallen, largely because of Clean Air Act regulation of industrial and transportation emissions.

Volkswagen and Audi used a defeat device so that about 482,000 of its 2.0 - liter turbodiesel - equipped cars would meet Clean Air Act standards for nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency alleged on Friday.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced that he supports Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's move to file a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by failing to...

The PGA doesn't work that way, and the Clean Air Act doesn't either.

He has also ruled in favor of loosening Clean Air Act rules requiring permits and new pollution controls whenever manufacturing and power plants were updated.

EPA says Fiat Chrysler's diesel Jeeps and Rams violate the Clean Air Act with defeat devices: Just prior to President Trump taking office, the Environmental Protection Agency announces it's investigating Fiat Chrysler for alleged fuel economy / emissions test cheating devices on its Jeep and Ram EcoDiesel engines.

Cycling and walking charity Sustrans» chief executive Xavier Brice said: «The new Government must urgently improve the quality of the air that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycling.

Even if Congress were to eliminate EPA's Clean Air Act authority over CO2, it would not affect state CO2 regulation, which is far more pervasive than anything EPA has done,

In the West, the main producers of soot are diesel engines, but the Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to regulate only 9 % of the 11 million diesel engines in use today.

Winterkorn is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud and violating the Clean Air Act from at least May 2006 through November 2015 by using illicit software that allowed Volkswagen diesel vehicles to emit excess pollution without detection.

Potential examples of this — depending upon the details of the regulations — include: first, AB 32 cap - and - trade combined with Federal cap - and - trade (H.R. 2454) or combined with some U.S. Clean Air Act performance standards; second, state limits on GHGs / mile combined with Federal CAFE standards; and third, state renewable fuels standards combined with a Federal RFS, or state renewable portfolio standards combined with a Federal RPS.

But on the last day of 1970, Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law, creating the Environmental Protection Agency.

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.

The challengers can not question whether the Clean Air Act authorizes EPA to limit carbon dioxide pollution from power plants.

The Ontario Ending Coal for Cleaner Air Act sets maximum fines for anyone who violates the ban and enshrines the health and environmental benefits of making coal - fired electricity illegal in law.

In an ongoing case, filed July 2012, U.S. EPA charged Ameren Missouri with Clean Air Act violations at its Rush Island coal plant after upgrades excluded certain pollution controls technology.

According to a new study, enforcing the new Clean Air Act requirements would create a jobs

Clear Skies was a priority of the Bush Administration, but was picked apart by environmental groups and the National Academy of Sciences for weakening Clean Air Act pollution standards.

Prior to his role at NRDC, Limaye worked for three years as a scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional offices in San Francisco and Chicago, focusing on issues such as Clean Air Act regulatory implementation, risk communication, citizen science, and air - quality monitoring policy.

The Plan's challengers can not question whether the Clean Air Act covers climate - changing air pollutants.

The orthodox explanation for that one is that the cooling effect of white aerosols such as sulphates — released from coal and oil burning — was masking the warming effect of greenhouse gases until various clean air acts allowed the anthropogenic warming trend to re-emerge.

The clean air acts introduced in Europe and North America reduced emissions of sulphate aerosols.

Sponsors of the statewide ban are confident the measure will pass this legislative session as part of a much larger Indoor Clean Air Act bill.

Green groups blasted the decision, citing the potential disastrous effects on the Adirondack Park, rolling back years of progress after the 1990 Clean Air Act led to recovery from some of the worst acid rain damage in the nation, killing trees and poisoning fish.

So it's not imposing anything more than what is imposed on any other entity that is covered by the Smoke - Free Air Act,» siad City Councilman Vincent Gentile of Brooklyn.

The US Clean Air Act defined an air pollutant as «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical, biological, radioactive... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.»

But any attempt to seriously undercut the Clean Air Act through budget riders would almost certainly be rejected by the president, setting the stage for a new round of budget showdowns.

The Healthy Air Act required an 80 percent reduction in mercury in 2010 and a 90 percent reduction by 2013.

A recent study by EPA researchers showed that, in 2010 alone, the Clean Air Act prevented more than 160,000 premature deaths, 130,000 cases of heart disease and 1.7 million asthma attacks, not to mention 86,000 hospital admissions and millions of respiratory illnesses.

Defended a nonprofit organization that allegedly violated the Clean Air Act during asbestos removal, resulting in no charges.

EPA is effectively trying to rewrite the Clean Air Act without consulting Congress or observing the law or the Constitution.

Kathy Mohr - Almeida and her daughter Anna (pictured at the right)- along with millions of others in Arizona and surrounding states - could breathe a little easier if the Environmental Protection Agency steps up to enforce the Clean Air Act protections for Navajo Generating Station, one of the biggest polluters in Arizona.