Sentences with phrase «ambitious emissions reduction requirements»
Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.
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Ambitious new initiatives have cascaded out of Schwarzenegger's office — including the two measures raising the renewable - power requirement on utilities, a state subsidy program to encourage the installation of electricity - generating solar panels on 1 million California roofs, and in January 2007, an executive order establishing the nation's first «low - carbon fuel standard,» which requires a reduction of at least 10 percent in the carbon emissions from transportation fuels by 2020.