Sentences with phrase «air standards»

We need strong clean air standards that include the most protective pollution control technology to safeguard our health and our environment now, as well as that of future generations.
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.
It's all part of a process of moving practices in the right direction, as is E.P.A.'s move to greatly tighten air standards for oil and gas operations.
In his latest lawsuit against the Trump administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing over a minimum one - year delay by the EPA in enacting tougher clean air standards pertaining to smog.
2 Strengthen ozone air standards > voluntarily.
The calibration is done using a CO2 in air standard gas (251.65 p.p.m.v.) scaled on the World Meteorological Organization mole fraction scale.
«As an investor who one might say is insanely obsessed with energy and its generation and use around the world, it seems crazy to me we would roll back science - based clean air standards because there are skillful political operatives and wealthy political donors who really want to get rid of E.P.A. regulations,» he said in a speech Monday evening at the Cleantech Forum conference in San Francisco.
Today, 14 states adhere to California's air standards rather than the federal rules.
Furthermore, any other state could select to follow either federal air standards, or California's.
You don't have to worry about nefarious actors and noncompliance air standards if you are not producing any air emissions to begin with.
Aviation fuel is the largest source of lead emissions, and Friends of the Earth is calling on the EPA to get it under control.The EPA identified at least 16 regions last month that do not meet clean air standards on airborne lead emissions, and just about every one of those regions contains an airport that allows leaded aviation fuel.
It is mostly an issue of emissions compliance as the bulky SUV can not be retrofitted to meet today's clean - air standards in its various markets.
«It's incredibly hypocritical because the oil industry opposes gas pump labeling except when it reflects their claims of how gas prices may or may not reflect the cost of clean air standards,» Frank said.
The Golden State has also been the most forward - looking when it comes to clean - air standards; many Californians remember the acrid, choking Los Angeles smog of the 1960s.
Older coal - fired plants are being idled to meet clean - air standards.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Thursday announced his office would investigate accusations from the Environmental Protection Agency luxury car maker Fiat Chrysler violated clean air standards.
In an accompanying Perspective, Nino Kuenzli from the University of Basel in Switzerland says: «the [Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution study] further supports an old request to policy makers, namely that clean air standards ought to comply at least with the science - based levels proposed by the World Health Organization.»
Thousands of lives would be saved and illnesses avoided if U.S counties met more protective ATS clean air standards.
«Thousands of lives would be saved if counties met ATS clean air standards
What if there were a compact, fuel - efficient hot rod that also met California's stringent clean - air standards?
Pellet stoves can be a greener alternative to traditional wood stoves and fireplaces: «Pellet stoves pollute so little that they don't require certification from the EPA, they create no creosote (chimney fire fodder), and fall well within clean air standards.
Take that away, and the Clean Power Plan is unexceptional, just the latest of a long line of clean air standards to curb the public health and environmental toll that the power industry — the nation's biggest polluter — exacts on the American people.
I hope Rep. Gosar can be one of those people who «overreaches» across the aisle to support strong EPA clean air standards.
«When this little girl grows up her world will have significantly less mercury pollution because President Obama and the EPA stood up against polluters and established the first - ever clean air standards.
Learn more about the latest victories that promote stringent requirements for air standards and emissions.
It fought to weaken clean air standards, [37] lobbied against the Kyoto Protocol, and opposed a hazardous waste dumping ban.
John Doherty, commissioner of the New York City Department of Sanitation said in regards to the option of burning trash in incinerators that, «not only did it not meet the EPA's air standards, it is also a nuisance to the neighborhoods near the facility.»
Thus, many of the 600 coal - fired power plants in the U.S. buy Wyoming coal to blend with other coal with higher sulfur content to meet Clean Air standards.
And unlike the HOV controversy, where it's unclear why a hybrid that gets 40 MPG is given special privileges, whereas a non-hybrid that gets 40 MPG does not, the Green Pass is very clear about what it is incentivizing: fuel - efficiency, and clean - air standards.
The goal is that by 2012 «only trucks meeting the EPA's 2007 clean air standards will be allowed in the ports.»
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