Sentences with phrase «clean air act»

During the past decade, NOx concentrations have fallen, largely because of Clean Air Act regulation of industrial and transportation emissions.

(this is a false urban legend) Gore claims you can easily see the impact of the US Clean Air Act in ice cores.

«Instead, the US economy grew by 64 percent even as the implementation of Clean Air Act Amendments cut acid rain pollution in half.»

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states contend.

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 standards.

In an ongoing case, filed July 2012, U.S. EPA charged Ameren Missouri with Clean Air Act violations at its Rush Island coal plant after upgrades excluded certain pollution controls technology.

In 40 years of Clean Air Act regulation, she noted, regulators have never been flatfooted enough to allow environmental rules to dim the nation's lights.

It's Official: EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Endanger Public Health US Chamber of Commerce to Fight EPA on Clean Air ACt CO2 Regulation

Amend Clean Air Act to exclude regulation of carbon.

J. Craig Williams points out that the Environmental Protection Agency's new agreement with animal - feeding operations gives the farms «immunity from Clean Air Act civil fines and penalties in exchange for the farms» agreement to submit air quality data and pay a one - time fine.»

Volkswagen and Audi used a defeat device so that about 482,000 of its 2.0 - liter turbodiesel - equipped cars would meet Clean Air Act standards for nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency alleged on Friday.

Mandatory carbon trading programs, such as the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that began in 2005, have their roots in the U.S. Clean Air Act amendments of 1990.

Pruitt said in his letter to Sununu last month that EPA was considering «a range of options consistent with a carbon neutral policy for biomass from forests and other lands and sectors» for Clean Air Act permitting programs.

He has also ruled in favor of loosening Clean Air Act rules requiring permits and new pollution controls whenever manufacturing and power plants were updated.

It will strip out most of the dust, 90 percent of the toxic mercury, and 99 percent of the hydrogen sulfide — all of which is required by existing Clean Air Act regulations.

Cycling and walking charity Sustrans» chief executive Xavier Brice said: «The new Government must urgently improve the quality of the air that we breathe through an ambitious new Clean Air Act which tackles tailpipe emissions but also encourages a real shift in how people travel to the least polluting of all modes — walking and cycling.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) estimates that all of this unnecessary regulatory pain asserted under authority of the 1970 Clean Air Act which Congress never intended for «climate pollution» will reduce temperatures only about 0.0015 º C by the year 2100.

(this is a false urban legend) Alright, so sue him... Gore claims you can easily see the impact of the US Clean Air Act in ice cores.

The Ontario Ending Coal for Cleaner Air Act sets maximum fines for anyone who violates the ban and enshrines the health and environmental benefits of making coal - fired electricity illegal in law.

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.

The US Clean Air Act defined an air pollutant as «any air pollution agent or combination of such agents, including any physical, chemical, biological, radioactive... substance or matter which is emitted into or otherwise enters the ambient air.»

The orthodox explanation for that one is that the cooling effect of white aerosols such as sulphates — released from coal and oil burning — was masking the warming effect of greenhouse gases until various clean air acts allowed the anthropogenic warming trend to re-emerge.

This determined focus resulted in the Civic CVCC engine, the first engine to comply with the 1975 Clean Air Act without a catalytic converter in 1974.

The Administrator also finds that the combined emissions of these greenhouse gases from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contribute to the greenhouse gas air pollution that endangers public health and welfare under CAA [Clean Air Act] section 202 (a).

Green groups blasted the decision, citing the potential disastrous effects on the Adirondack Park, rolling back years of progress after the 1990 Clean Air Act led to recovery from some of the worst acid rain damage in the nation, killing trees and poisoning fish.

We need a new Clean Air Act introduced urgently to protect lives once we leave the EU.

Potential examples of this — depending upon the details of the regulations — include: first, AB 32 cap - and - trade combined with Federal cap - and - trade (H.R. 2454) or combined with some U.S. Clean Air Act performance standards; second, state limits on GHGs / mile combined with Federal CAFE standards; and third, state renewable fuels standards combined with a Federal RFS, or state renewable portfolio standards combined with a Federal RPS.

Democrats and Republicans had, in the course of a few short months, effectively switched policy positions on energy, with Democrats voting to hand trillions in new subsidies to coal - burning utilities and power plants while gutting Clean Air Act restrictions on the construction of coal - fired power plants, and Republicans, long - standing coal boosters, voting against a pro-coal bill.

Today, environmental and community groups asked a federal court to stay a decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to weaken and delay Clean Air Act protection against toxic pollution from cement plants.

The landmark Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 passed the Senate 89 to 10 and the House 401 to 25.

Prior to his role at NRDC, Limaye worked for three years as a scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional offices in San Francisco and Chicago, focusing on issues such as Clean Air Act regulatory implementation, risk communication, citizen science, and air - quality monitoring policy.

Secondly, understanding the implications on the CAA of such a move is something you probably ought to ask — oh, I don't know — clean air act experts.

The Obama administration, in the face of what it deemed to be unsatisfactory congressional action on climate change, was muscular in its use of Clean Air Act rulemaking.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) wrote a letter of opposition, calling the bill «one of the most irresponsible compilations of attacks on Clean Air Act health standards ever to be introduced in Congress.»

Striking the nominalization in accordance with, and changing the passive voice smoking is prohibited to active voice, we get: «The Minnesota Clean Air Act prohibits smoking.»

Ongoing Clean Air Act compliance and Title V renewal advising for several clients, including a multinational oil and gas refinery and a Portland Cement company

Starting in January 2011, large industrial facilities that must already obtain Clean Air Act permits for non-GHGs must also include GHG requirements in these permits if they are newly constructed and have the potential to emit 75,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) or more or if they make changes at the facility that increase GHG emissions by that amount.

Tagged with: Associated General Contractors of America California Clean Air Act diesel Environmental Protection Agency rules standards

The Flexible Packaging Association filed comments on potential regulation of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) under the current Clean Air Act (CAA) in response to the U.S.

Provide a price signal strong enough to reduce the need for future regulation of carbon emissions while preserving the EPA's present Clean Air Act regulatory authority.