Sentences with phrase «clean air legislation»

Clean air legislation and the introduction of the catalytic converter among other things.

Over a longer scale, the mid-century cooling has long been ascribed to the increase in sulpher and other aerosol pollution in the post-war industrialisation, this effect later diminished due to clean air legislation.

John Philips says: Over a longer scale, the mid-century cooling has long been ascribed to the increase in sulpher and other aerosol pollution in the post-war industrialisation, this effect later diminished due to clean air legislation.

When the citizens of China and India become more Westernized and then begin demanding clean air legislation, global warming will really take off.

Secondly it magically reverses the cooling trend moment clean air legislation to reduce SO2 emissions is passed, despite the fact that the SO2 emissions have fallen only slowly.

America's clean air legislation has been a model for other such efforts around the world, but efforts to apply that law to heat - trapping greenhouse gases, despite court support, face ongoing challenges.

«It (the study) doesn't mean we shouldn't have that clean air legislation.

In the U.S. alone, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that clean air legislation will prevent more than 230,000 early deaths and provide $ 2 trillion in economic benefits by 2020.

Plenty of other studies have shown there are many large benefits to clean air legislation and reducing aerosols,» Gillett said.

Not exact matches

Indeed, Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 31 %, and specifically eliminates measures designed to preserve clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water clean air and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Ruair and water and ward off climate change — including Obama - era legislation amending the longstanding Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Clean Air Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water RuAir Act and creating what is literally known as the Clean Water Clean Water Rule.

Several high - and middle - income countries, including the U.S., have put in place legislation and regulation for cleaner air and water.

The most that environmentalists have been able to do since then is to beat back efforts to weaken such legislation as the clean air act, the requirement of environmental impact reports, and the endangered species act that were passed at that time.

They also dismissed arguments that the legislation impinges on people's freedom to do as they wish in their own property, saying that objectors «seem to value this more highly than the children's right to breathe clean air».

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says he will introduce legislation that would require the Air Force to identify the source of water contamination in Newburgh and pay to clean it up if a base nearby is responsible.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo late Monday approved legislation that would apply electronic cigarettes to the Clean Indoor Air Act, a move that will limit where e-cigarettes can be used indoor and outdoor spaces.

Since, as the editorial points out, federal laws such as the Clean Air Act are not subject to the whim of this or any future president, carbon emissions also need to be addressed by federal legislation.

Co-founded Tobacco Free Erie County Coalition (1991), which resulted in passage of major clean indoor air legislation in Erie County and removal of tobacco ads at Bills» football stadium (1998).

With no chance of Congress enacting legislation to make these targets into actual U.S. law, the White House is depending on using existing authority under the Clean Air Act and other laws to set regulations in place on power plant emissions, heavy - duty vehicles and more.

When clean - air legislation passed in the U.S. and Europe, the rain band shifted back, and the drought lessened.

He also has the option of bypassing Congress and imposing cuts through existing legislation, such as the Clean Air Act.

The relevant legislation (USA) is the Clean Air Act which grants authority to regulate CO2 & other greenhouse gasses.

UPDATE, 10:30 p.m.: As a backstop should legislation falter (and / or prod to move things along), the Obama administration expanded its actions to curtail greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act today, as well.]

Rather, the real choice is between regulatory chaos and legislation that fixes the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act so that pro-Kyoto litigation groups can not use those statutes for a purpose that Congress never intended — to dictate climate and energy policy for the nation.

The reason for the trough is thought to be the surge in aerosols generated by the post-war economic boom, finally removed in the late 1970s by the implementation of the Clean Air Act and similar legislation in Europe, thereby unmasking the steadily rising CO2 forcing that had been there all along.

Yes, it's true that our air — especially in smoggy cities like Los Angeles — has gotten cleaner since important environmental legislation was passed back in the early 1970s.

For instance, fossil fuel companies, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, worked through ALEC to develop state - based legislation opposing federal standards on clean air and climate change.

Enviros and industry types alike tend to agree that it would be better to have new climate legislation from Congress than to have the Obama administration address climate change under the Clean Air Act, which is not particularly well - suited for regulating greenhouse gases.

The shift from coal to natural gas over the last few decades has had more influence than any clean - air legislation.

After the demise of the Waxman Markey legislation in 2009 — which would have capped U.S. greenhouse gas emissions — most of the environmental community put all of its eggs in the basket of Obama administration regulation, particularly under the Clean Air Act.

Most EPA rules have a layer of insulation from Congressional meddling as long as Senate Democrats retain the ability to filibuster legislation that would repeal bedrock environmental laws like the Clean Air Act.

ALEC orchestrated opposition against EPA regulations on greenhouse gasses with their model legislation, «Resolution in Opposition to EPA's Plan to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act.»

Demonstrating that we can win a sizable victory with this coalition (see our blogs from our recent «Storms» of Senate and Representative offices), whether it is through strong comprehensive legislation, defending the Clean Air Act, or helping to generate the investment needed to create millions of good paying domestic clean energy jobs, will change the definition of what is possible in this movement and on this iClean Air Act, or helping to generate the investment needed to create millions of good paying domestic clean energy jobs, will change the definition of what is possible in this movement and on this iclean energy jobs, will change the definition of what is possible in this movement and on this issue.

(3) additional Federal measures, including legislation, that could, if implemented, maximize the potential for natural gas used in both stationary and mobile sources to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

Looking at this from a wider angle, Senators might ponder what would have happened if Reps. Waxman and Markey, instead of introducing a cap - and - trade bill, had introduced legislation authorizing the EPA to do exactly what it is doing now — regulate greenhouse gases through the Clean Air Act as it sees fit.

The Obama administration's plan to repurpose the Clean Air Act rather than propose new legislation to combat climate change acknowledged that the courts offered a better shot than Congress.

The EPA is preparing to regulate CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and Congress will likely draft cap - and - trade legislation this year.

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.

«We are proud to be a part of the coalition that helped push this legislation over the finish line and we can't wait to start delivering on the promise of clean air and well - paying jobs that solar energy offers.»

«She has long championed legislation to promote clean air, clean water and thriving ocean ecosystems.»

The legislation, which is modeled after the successful acid rain trading program of the 1990 Clean Air Act, would require a reduction to 2000 carbon dioxide emission levels by the year 2010, and a reduction to 1990 levels by the year 2016.

He has introduced legislation to spur development of wind, solar and geothermal energy, knowing that they can deliver sustainable energy and new jobs, and has stood up against attacks on the EPA because he understands that clean air and water save American lives.

That surge helped push through all kinds of legislation — the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act — and spurred the growth of organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund.

In his time at the EPA, Holmstead worked to weaken the new source review program, which ensures modified or upgraded power plants don't increase pollution after they are retrofitted, and «oversaw the development of the Bush Administration's Clear Skies Legislation,» which would have allowed for three times more power plant pollution than the Clean Air Act.

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

Dealing with Congress and federal agencies, Mr. Bookbinder helped lead efforts on both global warming legislation and greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act, and has testified in front of House and Senate committees on these issues (and may be the only person ever invited by both Barbara Boxer and James Inhofe).

In his speech, Michaels spoke about the need to vacate the Endangerment Finding, a piece of legislation which classified carbon dioxide as a pollutant and allowed the EPA to regulate it under the clean air act.

Since comprehensive clean energy & climate legislation failed in Congress, a renewable energy standard is still glaringly absent, and the EPA's role in regulating greenhouse gases in the future is still up in the air, our options for stimulating growth in the clean energy sector are few and far between.

«The administration is engaged with Congress to pass cap - and - trade legislation, which the president believes is far superior to a regulatory approach using the existing Clean Air Act.»

He also makes the good point, paraphrasing from Tom Daschle, that it's not even true that politicians inherently shy away from controversial votes during election years — some of the most divisive legislation (welfare reform, Clean Air amendments, etc) passed during election years.