Sentences with phrase «air pollution standards for»

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.

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.

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.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Leading a coalition of 11 states, AG Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit to compel the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot.

And so does setting ambitious goals: Early on, I doubted industry could meet some of the aggressive targets that EPA set for reducing air pollution, but I ultimately saw these goals spur innovation and creative solutions that led to setting even higher standards.

New York City's Clean Heat Program was launched in 2010 to eliminate the use of residual diesel fuel oils — diesel - based fuels that remain after gasoline and distillate fuels have been removed from crude — in residential buildings, in order to help address city air pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarair pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarAir Act standards.

«Continuing to identify subgroups that are most susceptible to the effects of air pollution is critically important for setting pollution standards and regulations so that those who are most vulnerable can be protected,» said Hart.

China will raise standards for the production of cement, batteries, leather and heavy metals as part of its efforts to cut air, water and soil pollution, the environment ministry said on Friday.

Air board staff was concerned that converted Priuses could cause more air pollution and urged for stricter standards, even though all sides agreed that they lower greenhouse gas emissioAir board staff was concerned that converted Priuses could cause more air pollution and urged for stricter standards, even though all sides agreed that they lower greenhouse gas emissioair pollution and urged for stricter standards, even though all sides agreed that they lower greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to the new engine, Mazda has also announced that it will begin electrifying its cars in 2019 but focus on markets it calls «regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution» (read: markets with extremely strict emissions standards).

The EPA claims that Volkswagen's actions violated the Clean Air Act, which requires that automakers certify to the EPA that their vehicles will meet federal emissions standards for controlling air pollutiAir Act, which requires that automakers certify to the EPA that their vehicles will meet federal emissions standards for controlling air pollutiair pollution.

If China can build its capacity to extract natural gas without substantial emissions to the air (and with careful standards for drilling and water pollution — which is hardly a given!)

Apparently Shell's Arctic drilling ships aren't nearly clean enough to meet EPA standards for air pollution, so rather than using cleaner ships Shell has asked the EPA to bend the rules.

China significantly improved its emission standards for CPPs due to government's policy to reduce air pollution and encourage clean energy.

We're working for stronger regulation of both greenhouse pollution from automobiles through the Clean Air Act and higher fuel economy standards pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, two partially overlapping and complimentary statutory schemes.

One reasonably certain approach for getting there would be for the EPA to set a National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for carbon dioxide under Section 108 of the Clean Air Act, using the President's prior declaration of a carbon pollution emergency as the legal basis for invoking that particular section of the law.

Environmental quality standards for air, water and soil pollution as well as noise were defined as «the desirable levels that will maintain protection of human health and our living environment.»

Specifically, the executive order directs the EPA to not only rewrite the Clean Power Plan, but to also rewrite the new source performance standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants that required state of the art air pollution control technologies on any newly constructed coal plants.

«Today, we build on that progress by proposing common - sense standards that will begin to put an end to the limitless release of carbon pollution from our power plants, creating cleaner air and a healthier environment for our children and for future generations,» Mr. Obama said in a statement.

The agreement grew out of the new fuel efficiency standards passed by Congress in 2007, the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which precipitated global warming pollution standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act, and global warming pollution standards enacted in California and subsequently adopted by 13 other states and the District of Columbia.

«While setting methane standards for the first time is an important step, failing to immediately regulate existing oil and gas equipment nationwide misses 90 percent of the methane pollution from the industry,» said Conrad Schneider, advocacy director for the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston - based environmental group.

Under her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollutiair we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollutiAir Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollution.

The Environmental Protection Agency's plan establishes pollution standards for existing power plants, for the first time limiting the amount of carbon dioxide they can pump into the air.

The bill preserves key Clean Air Act tools for sources not in the program, and it calls on EPA to continue setting tough emission standards to reduce global - warming pollution from cars and trucks.

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.

This also means that Midwestern state governors and their respective US Congressional delegations need to take seriously the recent changes to national ambient air quality standards and pollution control standards for refineries.

Clear Skies was a priority of the Bush Administration, but was picked apart by environmental groups and the National Academy of Sciences for weakening Clean Air Act pollution standards.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

The Danskammer Plant, located along the shore of the Hudson River in the town of Newburgh, New York, has been responsible for more toxic pollution than nearly all of the total 646 industrial sites in the state and numerous violations of federal air quality standards.

In order for the plant to cut its allowable emissions by the necessary 94 % to meet safe air standards it would likely need to install additional pollution safeguards.