Sentences with phrase «air regulations»

Instead, many operators upgraded the plants so that they could keep the exemption and would not have to deal with clean air regulations.

BC and OC amounts decreased strongly in the early 1970s, probably because of clean air regulations in Europe.

Over the next decade a host of federal air regulations will update limits on the emissions of multiple pollutants from stationary sources such as...

EPA watchers are also expecting to soon see appointments to the Board of Scientific Counselors, which advises the EPA's main research arm, and a third panel that advises the agency on air regulations.

The Tesoro refinery in Wilmington, for instance, violated air regulations twenty - eight times from 2008 to 2009.

Similarly, as the Chairman of the Science Committee, I have listened as witnesses testified that the primary data used to justify most EPA air regulations remains unavailable to the public, kept in secret and shielded from scientific scrutiny.

And because clean - air regulations govern so much of the manufacturing, sale and use of products in this category, SEMA has long emphasized the need for emissions compliance on the part of its member manufacturers while simultaneously striving to protect them from overly burdensome regulation.

In New England we are downwind of coal - fired power plants in the midwest and acid rain from those plants has historically been a problem (although mitigated by clean air regulations as pointed out).

Photo: Sierra Club The Power Stations are in Violation of Clean Air Regulations Sadly, sometimes it seems like it takes a lawsuit to make things happen.

The Clear Skies Initiative was former President George Walker Bush's proposed strategy for air regulation.

Existing air regulations gauge pollution over an entire region and thus miss the concentration of pollution in places like Wilmington.

The Massachusetts Dept of Environmental Protection just issued new clean air regulations in response to a court ruling that the state was not doing enough to meet its similar GHG reduction target.

Incorporating end - use energy efficiency into a 111 (d) rulemaking will reduce the costs of complying with other federal air regulations, helping to ensure that the power sector maintains reliability and that electricity prices remain affordable.

President Obama in a June speech declared his administration would plow ground on air regulations to curb climate change.

The rise in soot levels at Zuoqiupu follows a dip that followed the enacting of clean air regulations in Europe in the 1970s.

«We applaud Congresswoman Stefanik and all of her colleagues for their efforts to secure federal funding for monitoring whether clean air regulations are working, and for restoring Adirondack lakes damaged by acid rain,» said Adirondack Council Executive Director William C. Janeway in a statement.

The authors conclude that better information is needed on the economic effects of air regulations, given the wide range for the lives they are estimated to save and the potential impact of the regulations on the U.S. economy.

Many suspect crops in industrialized Western countries have been getting more light since the 1980s thanks to clean air regulations that brought down emissions of aerosols, which scatter and absorb solar radiation.

Newland says that a fall in nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide from clean air regulations could have slowed the production of OH.

Two of the judges who issued yesterday's opinion, for example, ruled in 2011 to block another big EPA clean air regulation — the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to cut power plant ozone and fine particulate emissions that blow across state borders.

When the cap - and - trade proposals were announced, the EPA's head of air regulations, Jeffrey Holmstead, said, «We don't think there will be any hot spots.»

Melissa Holtmeyer is a current AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow working in the Office of Senator Bernie Sanders (I - VT) on energy and environment related issues, which have included EPA clean air regulations, climate change, renewable energy, Vermont's energy portfolio, and the Keystone XL pipeline.

From clean air regulations to clean energy installations and requirements for better gas mileage, here's the year in environmental progress, according to the Sierra Club.

Wilmington suffers from «a legacy of land - use practices that didn't adequately control the development of industrial sources and their relationship to residential areas,» says Alice Kaswan, an expert on air regulations and climate change.

Because of environmental and air regulations in Europe, products that focus on reducing emissions, like hybrid gensets, are positioned for growth, the report says.

Yet Mr Zaremberg concedes that business has benefited from tough clean - air regulations.

The study, funded by the California Air Resources Board and led by Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, estimates that reductions in black carbon as a result of clean air regulations were equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in California by 21 million metric tons annually or taking more than 4 million cars off California roads every year.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule in the Federal Register on February 12, 2018, proposing to update a portion of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Air Regulations that pertains to the requirements for OCS sources for which Massachusetts is the designated the Corresponding Onshore Area (COA).

The Sierra Club, Friends of Columbia Gorge and others sued PGE in September of 2009, arguing that the power company had violated clean air regulations and in October a federal judge dismissed PGE's motion to dismiss the lawsuit.

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.

The weak aerosol cooling effect diminished after 1980, following the enactment of clean air regulations.

In some regions, such as Europe, global dimming no longer occurs, thanks to clean air regulations.

Chicago — Fossil fuel industry leaders and Republicans slammed the Environment Protection Agency Friday, saying its «aggressive regulatory agenda» is harming the US economy after the EPA announced new clean air regulations that lower the permissible levels of soot.

Maintained schedule integrity while adhering to performance Standards, flight attendant collective bargaining agreement and Federal Air Regulations.

PERSONAL SUMMARY An observant, focused and safety conscious technician who has extensive experience of the maintenance of an aircraft to ensure its airworthiness and compliance with all Federal Air Regulations.