Sentences with phrase «air pollution regulations»

Implementation of air pollution regulations, however, enabled a large - scale decline in atmospheric mercury levels during the 1980s.

Will historic air pollution regulations have dramatic effects on electricity prices and the generation mix?

Herbert Beven says that the MPD currently satisfies all European emission standards for pollutants and could be licensed anywhere in the US except California, home of the toughest air pollution regulations in the world.

Canada continues to implement its nation - wide Air Quality Management System to reduce emissions of air pollutants from industrial sources, as well as a suite of air pollution regulations for the transportation sector that reduce emissions of key SLCPs.

Koch is co-owned by David Koch, founder of Americans for Prosperity, a group aligned with the Tea Party movement, which opposes new air pollution regulations.

Fuel cells were chosen because they are exempt from air pollution regulations, and they run on both biogas and natural gas, which would not have been the case for internal combustion or natural gas engines.

Air pollution regulations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are estimated to save thousands of lives annually.

Republicans on House science committee want independent review of decades - old studies underpinning air pollution regulations

The American Lung Association supports strict enforcement of power plant air pollution regulations to ensure continuous compliance and the strengthening of abatement requirements to ensure the protection of human health.

Even before Smith took over the committee, he co-signed a letter in December 2012 calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to release the «secret data» behind proposed air pollution regulations.

Scores of old, inefficient coal - fired power plants were already expected to close as a result of other air pollution regulations — with gas fired plants popping up in their place.

That means, just as our colleagues argued in Climate Pragmatism, that there are numerous opportunities to cost - effectively tackle these «no regrets» pollutants «through traditional air pollution regulations, the spread of best practices, and multilateral cooperation.»

If a US coal unit installs control technologies to meet the most stringent air pollution regulation, it could increase operating costs by 13 % when the capacity factor declines from 60 % to 40 %.

In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.

54 % of coal is cashflow negative today increasing to 97 % by 2030 — making units reliant on lobbying to secure capacity market payments (which the European Commission wants to prohibit by 2025) and avoid air pollution regulations.

On its face, the EPA's proposal to balance the costs and benefits of air pollution regulations makes a lot of sense.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.

Thanks to ever tightening fuel economy and air pollution regulations in Europe and the U.S., every automaker is seeking new ways to improve mileage and reduce emissions, including BMW.

To ensure the protection of human health, the American Lung Association supports the rigorous enforcement of air pollution regulations, and the strengthening of air quality standards and abatement requirements.

Fortunately, unlike parts of California, Bernalillo County, where I live in New Mexico, does not have any air pollution regulations pertaining to smoking or grilling, so we're free to create smoke in our own back yards.

DEC then called on the EPA to strengthen its air pollution regulation of trucks.

(In the U.S., air pollution regulations would make it necessary to ship it to a refinery for final processing or blend it with a less aromatic gasoline.)

EPA's move is a response to demands by Representative Lamar Smith (R - TX), the science panel's chairman, for more transparency in evaluating the science used to underpin the agency's air pollution regulations.

These carbon price levels and other environmental policies (such as air pollution regulations) may in fact be higher in some regions.

A recent survey of electric utility leaders finds that Trump administration efforts to promote coal energy and roll back air pollution regulations have had little impact on their long - range plans.

Canada is taking action through a range of air pollution regulations that will reduce emissions of SLCPs across key emitting sectors throughout the country.

However, we find that falling renewable energy costs, air pollution regulations and rising carbon prices will continue to undermine the economics of coal power in the EU, potentially making generation assets unusable by 2030.

This result contradicts the basis for all air pollution regulation worldwide, none of which considers controlling local CO2 based on its local health impact.

The resemblance to Waxman - Markey is more than superficial, because if stringent enough, air pollution regulations can restrict fossil energy use no less than carbon taxes or greenhouse cap - and - trade schemes.

During the same period, air pollution regulations in Europe gradually eliminated uncontrolled Hg emission sources that were common in urban areas.