Sentences with phrase «air air emissions»

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The EPA offers grants and rebates for projects that improve air quality by reducing harmful emissions from diesel engines.

But if deployed across the entire US, they would also help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean up our air, promote energy independence, and make energy distribution more cost - effective and convenient.

The EPA with cooperation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vehicles.

The Trump Administration has directed various agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Commerce Department, and Transportation Department to find ways to use the Clean Air Act and other laws to require vehicles made overseas undergo strict emissions testing and other reviews, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

The approval follows a 12 - month environmental assessment of the project that looked at the adequacy of emissions estimates and air quality modelling, cumulative air emissions, potential health impacts and worker health issues.

More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change - causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels.

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

As a result testers got one outcome — a diesel - powered car that met all the EPA's emissions requirements — while VW owners got another: a more powerful vehicle that spewed out up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide, an air pollutant, than standards allow.

• Alliance Source Testing, a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners, acquired Air Pollution Testing, a source emission testing firm with offices in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Anchorage.

California's government agency responsible for maintaining healthy air quality voted on Friday to adopt stricter emissions standards for automobiles, essentially daring President Donald Trump to confront the state in a legal battle over climate change.

It's a tactic that dates back to the 1970s when the Clean Air Act authorized the EPA to regulate vehicle tailpipe emissions.

McCain expressed reservations about the rules and supported revising them, but said, «Improving the control of methane emissions is an important public health and air quality issue.»

They've argued that coal dust coming off the trains would harm local air quality and that exporting the coal negates U.S. reductions in carbon emissions.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Reuters has reported the draft would assert that a 1975 law bars California from imposing its own state emissions rules, as it has long done nonetheless under a series of Clean Air Act waivers.

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

The Obama administration has turned to the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from the power industry through the Clean Power Plan.

I think we've been very clear with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, with respect to air pollutants, that we will regulate, working with the United States.

Walmart does not disclose GHG emissions from its international marine shipping activities; it does estimate emissions from all «upstream transportation and distribution» — which includes marine shipping, trucking, air freight and rail freight — in its 2014 Carbon Disclosure Project report.

RESOLVED: That Berkshire Hathaway Inc. («Berkshire») establish reasonable, quantitative goals for reduction of greenhouse gas and other air emissions at its energy - generating holdings; and that Berkshire publish a report to shareholders by January 31, 2015 (at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information) on how it will achieve these goals — including possible plans to retrofit or retire existing coal - burning plants at Berkshire - held companies.

But solar benefits the grid as well: cutting demand during peak use, reducing transmission and distribution costs, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and generating energy without polluting the air.

The engine recently become the first class 8 on - highway truck engine to attain near - zero emissions certification by the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

An LNG industry in B.C. needs to protect our air, land and water, and that means honouring our climate change commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Diesel cars from Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi, which is owned by VW, were rigged to cheat on clean air rules with software that made emissions look cleaner than they actually were, according to federal and California regulators.

It means protecting our air, land and water by controlling all greenhouse gas emissions, from wellhead to waterline.

Designs, manufactures, distributes and services diesel and natural gas engines, electric power generation systems and engine - related component products, including filtration and emissions solutions, fuel systems, controls and air handling systems.

«An LNG industry in B.C. needs to protect our air, land and water, and that means honouring our climate change commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions,» said Chandra Herbert.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

More renewable energy in Alberta will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean the air, and produce significant new investment and jobs — particularly in rural areas of the province.»

But International Emissions Trading Association raises concerns over lack of clarity in the draft Clean Air Rule

Alberta's electricity producers are planning to build new natural - gas - fired plants to replace a few aging coal plants — a move that will reduce carbon emissions and air pollution that comes with coal.

To tackle carbon emissions and air pollution, the country has become a leader in clean technology by embracing, wind, solar, nuclear, electric cars, and carbon capture.

The invention I thought was the coolest is the car that runs on nothing but air, and the only emission is cooler air!

(In fact the environment has markedly improved in the past century: city air is cleaner after soft - coal and horse manure were banished, and now auto and factory emissions are under attack; more people can get to the countryside; indeed, one can see the sunset in Los Angeles nowadays.)

These days, the major threat to clean air is now posed by traffic emissions.

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

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Forests clean the air, absorb greenhouse gas emissions, and stabilize the climate — both globally and locally.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today released a new report highlighting examples of significant strides by companies in managing and reducing waste, more efficiently using water and reducing air emissions.

«The Greenhouse Gas tool will further help the wine community understand how and which operations impact air quality and help managers develop strategies for reducing emissions.»

This CSWA project will field test, evaluate and implement a climate protection incentive system incorporating the DeNitrification DeComposition (DNDC) model and practices that improve air quality, reduce emissions, improve carbon sequestration potential, and promote other environmental benefits.

State and federal authorities, through laws and regulations, limit the amount of VOC emissions allowed, depending on regional air quality issues.

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Commissioned by the Corrugated Packaging Alliance and conducted by the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement (NCASI), the LCA found that corrugated packaging recovery reduced the industry's greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 35 percent between 2006 - 2014 by keeping corrugated out of landfills.

Consider this: Agriculture contributes 8 % to total California greenhouse gas emissions, according to the state's Air Resources Board.

This distortion of fact is particularly unfortunate given the ground - breaking work by California wineries and vineyards to tackle the issue of GHG emissions by working to improve air quality and energy efficiency, along with other sustainable winegrowing practices from ground to bottle, through the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (https://www.sustainablewinegrowing.org/).

Walmart recently announced that as part of moves to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal of hazardous waste.