Sentences with phrase «air pollution standards»

65 % of voters surveyed are confident that the health and environmental benefits of air pollution standards outweigh the costs of complying with them.

In 2012, EPA finalized air pollution standards for VOCs and HAPs from the oil and natural gas sector.

In September, President Obama rejected new air pollution standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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.

71 percent of African Americans live in counties that violate federal air pollution standards, as compared to 58 percent of the white population.

All six cities met US air pollution standards.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

The rise of renewables, tightening air pollution standards and shale - driven reductions in gas prices saw coal's share of the US power mix fall from 46 % in 2009 to 39 % in 2014.

In February 2015, the EPA responded to similar attacks on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

on the Clean Power Plan by pointing out that, ``... at no time in the more than 40 years that EPA has been implementing the Clean Air Act has compliance with air pollution standards resulted in reliability problems.»

Oil and gas standards: In April 2012, U.S. EPA finalized air pollution standards for the oil and gas industry that would capture up to 95 % of volatile organic compounds from new hydraulically fractured wells each year and in the process also reduce methane emissions.

The new critique comes almost a week after it was revealed that the EPA had accused Global Companies, which operates a train terminal at the Port of Albany, of violating air pollution standards regarding emissions from the dozens of oil trains that come through there each week.

«This report begins to quantify that toll and provides information that, we believe, should inform the setting of national air pollution standards.»

«Tighter air pollution standards may save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health: New report includes online tool with searchable information on health risks.»

Muller and his co-author, Akshaya Jha from the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, used annual data provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine whether a county within the United States was compliant with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)-- air pollution standards established by the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990.

There should be limits but other than international air pollution standards that deal with real pollutants, it will be a long row to hoe.

There is historical validation of this effect, with California repeatedly having increased the stringency of its local air pollution standards, followed by parallel Federal action under the Clean Air Act.

Right now, we're working with a leading manufacturer to deliver a new natural gas furnace that reduces emissions by 65 percent and is one of several models that now meet the state's ambitious air pollution standards.

Add tougher air pollution standards in the United States, and it's easy to see why the diesel car has remained a rarity on American roads.

Clean Power Plan; Waters of the United States Rule; The 2015 ozone air pollution standards.

Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting new air pollution standards.

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

For example, three US auto manufacturers recently introduced automobile emission - control technology to China that would not have met US air pollution standards, she said.

The rise of renewables, tightening air pollution standards and shale - driven reductions in gas prices saw coal's share of the US power mix fall from 46 % in 2009 to 39 % in 2014.

The Clean Air Act empowers the federal government to set tailpipe emissions standards, but a waiver granted to California allows the state to impose stricter air pollution standards than those set by the feds.

She and a colleague at the NRDC wrote a book, Respirable Particles, in 1979, which warned that the government's air pollution standards for American cities and industries were failing to curb the very smallest particles.

In the boundary layer, air pollution standards are exceeded throughout the region, caused by West and East European pollution from the north.

«But many European countries are unable to meet the air pollution standards they have agreed to in the European Union.

As part of the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it is proposing to improve its air pollution standards for newly - built municipal landfills, requiring them to capture landfill gas, which contains methane and carbon dioxide.

The UK is one of several European governments allowing energy industry representatives to help draw up the European Union's (EU) new air pollution standards, a Greenpeace investigation has found.

Coal plants nationwide already only run around half of the time, nearly every Indian coal plant violates the country's new air pollution standard, and India's Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has proposed closing nearly 50 GW of coal capacity by 2027.

Lots of stuff travels to other hemispheres through the ocean and air — California gets enough Chinese coal pollution to challenge the state's air pollution standards.

Friends of the Earth is also working in support of the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed air pollution standards that would likely phase out the use of bunker fuel in ships and reduce harmful pollutants by 80 percent or more by 2030, preventing between 13,000 and 33,000 premature deaths each year.