Sentences with phrase «auto emissions»

They are performing in - house washing instead of service pick - up to lessen auto emissions (the # 1 contributor to climate change).

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Judge William K. Sessions ruled in Burlington September 12, 2007, that Vermont could regulate auto emissions in the case, known as Green Mountain Chrysler v. Crombie.

The Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on regulating auto emissions is expected as early as today.

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Martin Winterkorn, the former head of Volkswagen, was indicted on Thursday along with five other former VW executives on charges of conspiracy and fraud in connection with a years - long scheme by the automaker to cheat on auto emissions tests.

The Golden State is at the vanguard in the United States in reducing auto emissions of nitrogen oxide gases, which help produce toxic smog and acid rain.

Our appellate victories have come in matters ranging from auto emission standards, to oil exploration plans, to CERCLA liability.

(The Hill) • A Trump administration plan to fight California's authority to set its own auto emissions standards relies on «an extraordinarily weak legal argument,» experts say.

And now it's official: there's a brand new national auto emission standard in effect, which will force all cars to get an average of 35.5 MPG when sold in 2016.

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They have leveled blistering criticism about Obama's efforts to slow down the Keystone Pipeline; they don't like his new auto emissions standards; they are unhappy with new EPA mercury emissions rules for boilers; and they don't like the fact that permits for drilling and fracking on federal lands have slowed.

Demands were made that pollution control standards for auto emissions be relaxed in order to allow more efficient mileage from available gasoline.

The Trump Administration also demanded that California, which has its own state - based, more stringent auto emission standards, must follow the federal decision or face legal challenge.

«Trump puts brakes on Obama - era auto emissions regulations in Michigan visit».

Combined with carbon capping and rationing, and capping and rationing of road space, he argues that this could reduce auto emissions by 90 % with no significant drop in convenience, comfort or transportation speed.

May 2, 2018 • NPR's Rachel Martin talks with California Attorney General Xavier Becerra about California and other states» lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to rewrite auto emissions rules.

A coalition of states, representing approximately 43 percent of the new - car sales market nationally, is suing the EPA to preserve auto emissions standards.

«Increased Sunday ridership has also reduced traffic on our roadways and harmful auto emissions in our atmosphere.»

The automaker introduces its Electric Networked Vehicle prototypes, one third the size of a typical car, as a way to reduce big urban auto emissions and traffic congestion

The unusually noxious haze was caused by several factors, including industrial pollution and auto emissions trapped by cold, windless weather, said Xu Bin, an associate professor at Shanghai's Tongji University.

The project will also reduce congestion, preventing accidents and curtailing auto emissions.

While America is the leading auto emissions nation, developing nations are becoming car - centric cultures as well.

Senior fellow Benjamin Zycher, «State's Auto Emissions Bill Is Just So Much Gas,» Los Angeles Times, May 8, 2002.

Indeed, how utterly absurd to have a mandatory auto emissions program on the one hand, while on the other hand thousands of jets blasting deadly toxic clouds of shit are freely allowed to operate.

Even if California adheres to its current auto emissions standards, population growth presents another challenge for reducing pollution levels.

In the early 1950s, Cal Tech professor Arie Haagen - Smit discovered that the smog choking Southern California was not created by a poison gas attack from Asia (which was what the public widely suspected), but from California auto emissions.

California's efforts to regulate auto emissions date back to 1966 when it became the first in the nation to regulate tailpipe emissions.

The Environmental Protection Agency's plans to ease auto emissions standards has particular resonance for Connecticut, with the potential to force the state to accept cars that are more polluting than it wants and make its notoriously bad air even worse.

California, the most polluted state in the country, is engaged in a fight with EPA to keep higher auto emissions standards.

Consider auto emissions, for example.

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California officials have said they will fight in court any attempt by the Trump administration to revoke or bypass their power to set their own auto emissions standards.

The authority to set auto emission standards was initially granted to the federal government by the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA).

And finally, Mexico is moving to impose its first national standard for auto emissions.

That's why we teamed up with multiple conservation groups and the Western Environmental Law Center to sue the federal government to allow for more stringent auto emissions standards.

Trump put the brakes on Obama - era auto emissions and fuel regulations in his visit to Ypsilanti, Michigan, this afternoon.

[1] Meanwhile, the EU and China are also raising their respective games, and today most European carmakers are on track to meet the EU goal of reducing auto emissions 40 percent from 2007 levels by 2021.

The study involved utilizing a technology that helped scientists simulate freeway air — it allowed them to hold particulates from auto emissions in liquid suspension in order to recreate a highway - like environment.

While the US is embroiled in an ongoing debate about how best to regulate auto emissions, Sweden went ahead and announced a plan today that will fiercely cut emissions, encourage people to buy hybrids, and generate tax revenue

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«California leads multistate coalition in challenge to EPA's planned rollback of auto emissions rules»

In a marked break from his predecessor, President Barack Obama will today direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to approve requests made by California and 13 other states to establish strict new auto emission and fuel efficiency (i.e. CAFE) standards, reports the NYT's John M. Broder and Peter Baker.

What we really need is a combined effort to clamp down on auto emissions, and a plan to expand mass transit in congested areas — no wonder so many eyes are on the LA mayor's 30/10 plan to build 30 years worth of transit projects in just ten.

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