Sentences with phrase «air pollution regulations in»

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.

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Where electric vehicles tend to succeed is in markets where trucks only have to drive short distances, and in areas where stringent air quality or pollution regulations make electric either favorable or a necessity.

But what Obama didn't mention is that declining energy consumption in a sluggish economy and well - placed regulations targeting air pollution and oil use are creating a more climate - friendly United States.

«The main goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»

(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.)

The conclusion is the overall news is good: Air quality regulation has benefited aquatic ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada, and controlling air pollution is benefiting nature in CalifornAir quality regulation has benefited aquatic ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada, and controlling air pollution is benefiting nature in Californair pollution is benefiting nature in California.

In fact, a report in Science last year showed that most of the planet's surface is brightening, attributable to air - pollution regulation throughout most of the industrialized worlIn fact, a report in Science last year showed that most of the planet's surface is brightening, attributable to air - pollution regulation throughout most of the industrialized worlin Science last year showed that most of the planet's surface is brightening, attributable to air - pollution regulation throughout most of the industrialized world.

Enthusiasm for burning coal has waned in recent years due to climate regulations and efforts to combat air pollution.

Past work has examined conservation policies in Mexico and Costa Rica, air pollution issues along the U.S. — Mexico border, voluntary regulation in Mexico and Colombia, and voluntary efforts to clean up brownfield properties in the United States.

Ever since becoming Oklahoma's top prosecutor in 2011, Pruitt has joined or led state lawsuits to block virtually every major federal regulation around climate and air pollution that Obama's EPA has put forward.

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.

And the public wants regulation: In February, one bipartisan poll found that 69 percent of voters support stricter limits on air pollution.

I would need clarification of what you mean by strong, since for the regulations except for the just started GHR, people have been sent to jail, and audits of the receptive media show that pollution is down as measured in air, water, and groundwater that were regulated under the current regulations.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

The 2015 Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELGs), which represents the first update to these regulations since 1982, nearly eliminates dumping of ash - contaminated wastewater, and for the first time, limits the discharge of toxic heavy metals that come from removing toxics from the air pollution stream and trapping them in sludge as part of the wastewater stream.

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.

The American coal industry says Mr. Obama is waging a «war on coal» in response to his proposed regulation of air pollution and surface mining in mountain areas.

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.»

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 polluterIn 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 polluterin court when they are attacked by the polluters.

PGE was originally set to invest more than a half billion dollars in pollution controls (scrubbers) by 2017 to comply with EPA and state clean air regulations, then keep it running until 2040.

However, critics claim that the state is too broke to be able to enforce such regulations, rendering it powerless to stop air and water pollution in the first place.

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.

Perhaps one of the factors in the cooling that occurred from the 1930s to the 1970s was this aerosol pollution, counteracting the expected warming from CO2 emissions, and the warming since the 1970s is a direct result of air pollution regulations that have decreased emissions of all kinds of particulates.

Rhone Resch, president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the rule will have an enormous impact because it is so different from previous air - quality regulations in which power plants installed pollution controls to curb the emissions coming out of their stacks.

The study upends more than half a century of research that assumed outdoor air pollution in cities was to blame for higher asthma rates — a hypothesis repeatedly used by EPA regulators to justify the agency's regulations.

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

These are things like voting to end mining regulations that protect people's homes from corporations» toxic dredge, that protect the water quality in rivers, that protect air pollution standards in cities.

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.

Responsible for assisting pollution control engineers in testing, checking, and approving the construction of industrial and commercial areas to assure compliance with the applicable regulations of the emissions and control of air contaminants