Sentences with phrase «clean air laws»

Part of the problem is a lack of enforcement of existing clean air laws — and efforts to avoid them.

We can reduce emissions even further, to levels near zero for pollutants regulated by federal and state clean air laws.

You'll note an acceleration of those temperatures in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect... Read More

Thanks to clean air laws on both continents that went into effect in the early 1970s, airborne pollutants dropped off rapidly — and sure enough, temperatures in the North Atlantic began to climb.

Jeffrey Holmstead's formative experience manipulating clean air laws began in 1989 as associate counsel to President George H. W. Bush, where he was involved in «the key steps taken to implement» the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, or as Clean Air Watch's Frank O'Donnell puts it, he «tried to «interpret» the rules in ways more favorable to industry.»

The red cedar trees of West Virginia reveal just how effective U.S. clean air laws have been.

Because the only statewide clean air laws that already existed were in California, and they were more stringent than the new federal legislation, the federal act gave waiver authority to California, allowing it to adopt tougher standards than those set nationally.

EPA: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issues an emergency memorandum to change how federal clean air laws are made, saying the agency's advisers should consider any adverse economic or energy effects.

The cap and trade rule mirrored the Bush Administration's absurdly - titled «Clear Skies Initiative» in Congress, a legislative assault on clean air laws designed under Holmstead's lead.

Note an acceleration of the temperature trend in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect on the climate, and thus were masking some of the global warming signal.

«I am deeply troubled by evidence presented by the EPA today concerning Fiat Chrysler's alleged attempts to undermine our nation's clean air laws,» he said.

Note an acceleration of the temperature trend in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect on the climate, and thus were masking

This is a significant step in the tangle of legal proceedings set in motion with the 2007 Supreme Court decision on the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide under the clean air law.

You'll note an acceleration of those temperatures in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air laws reduced emissions of pollutants that had a cooling effect on the climate, and thus were masking some of the global warming signal.

«A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters finds that clean air laws which greatly reduced sulfur dioxide emissions explain 81 % of the «brightening» of sunshine and 23 % of the surface warming in Europe since 1980.»

«So when the new chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee says E.P.A. can not pass by regulation what Congress failed to pass by law, let me correct him — Congress passed our Clean Air laws, Republican Presidents signed them, and those are the laws the E.P.A. is following,» Ms. Boxer said.