Sentences with phrase «air pollution rules»

Old coal and nuclear plants are closing due to age and tightening air pollution rules.

For a handful of states that rely heavily on electricity from aging coal plants and aren't compelled to close them under other air pollution rules, this will buy them a few years.

The volume of fly ash created by power plants is increasing, due to more coal burning coupled with more stringent air pollution rules.

The utility MACT rule, the cross-state air pollution rule, coal ash regulations, and national ambient air quality standards would make building a new coal plant extremely difficult while significantly decreasing the lifespan of existing plants.

And then, of course, there's this (via Ceres): «This poll found that support for the EPA air pollution rules extends across the political spectrum.

International Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained in Moscow, The Guardian EU's top court says Poland breached air pollution rules, Reuters

The EPA took steps to challenge California's decades - old right to set its own air pollution rules, setting up a showdown between the federal government and a state that has emerged as a bulwark against the Trump administration's policies.

Stricter air pollution rules and higher carbon prices are set to push even more plants into unprofitability, according to the analysts Carbon Tracker, with 97 % of the plants losing money by 2030.

According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal - burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.

From this year, plants face tightening air pollution rules under the

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency might be preparing to unveil a major air pollution rule change shortly after midterm elections.

The 112th Congress made a record - breaking 191 votes to kill air pollution rules, protect Big Oil subsidies, and block efforts to fight climate change, earning it this dubious distinction:

In the case of leaded gasoline, eighty percent of the phase - out of leaded gas had already occurred before the establishment of a trading system, due to the ban on the sale of cars that could run on leaded gasoline after 1975, along with local air pollution rules.

«U.S. appeals court upholds hazardous air pollution rule»: Lawrence Hurley has this report on the per curiam ruling that the majority on a partially divided three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

House Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R - IL): Shimkus is a sharp critic of the EPA, but praised how the air chief navigated the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule.

In a USB drive branded with the logo of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a folder labeled «Easterly» contains a presentation titled «Easterly ALEC presentation 11 28 12» explaining current EPA air pollution rules and how Tom Easterly has worked to obstruct them.

International Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained in Moscow, The Guardian EU's top court says Poland breached air pollution rules, Reuters

California's long - standing exception to develop their own air pollution rules were based on the horrible smog problems existing in the South Coast Area around LA back in the 1960s and 70s.

Brad Plumer: Coal would take the biggest hit under this climate rule — as well as all the other air pollution rules EPA has put out.

It's a classic tragedy of the commons — which is why we all need to stand firm and demand those stricter air pollution rules, for the good of the American public, no matter how industry and weasel - y politicians complain.

It was announced on September 12, 2011 that Texas based coal plant Monticello Units 1 and 2 would be idled in January 2012 if Energy Future Holdings, owner of Luminant, failed in its legal challenge to pending federal air pollution rules.

From this year, plants face tightening air pollution rules under the EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), though various exemptions and transitional arrangements are in play.

Research organizations are critical, Sheehan said, because their work confirms whether national acid rain and air pollution rules are working.

There are two EPA rules that are putting pressure on older coal generation, the cross-state air pollution rule, which is currently on stay until further ruling, and the MATS rule, which regulates mercury and other heavy metals and is scheduled to go into effect in April 2015.