Sentences with phrase «clean air program»

The decision has been a long time coming, says attorney John Walke, director of the Climate & Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

A JCAP (Japan Clean Air Program) study conducted in Japan showed that on average, 85 % of Japanese drivers drove less than 55 km per day.

A double whammy when coupled with the proposed cuts in EPA clean air programs and research.

There are more efficient and sustainable ways to get power,» said Dr. Laurie Johnson, chief economist in the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Peppermill launched a clean air program with technology that removes 123,400 cubic feet per minute of smoke - laden air from the casino floor through a recovery ventilation system that replaces stale air with fresh air mixed from outside and inside sources.

Cleaner air and water will come more quickly According to David Doniger, policy director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program, it took the benefits of the Montreal Protocol, which aimed to reduce emissions of ozone - depleting substances, years to come to fruition.

That's Daniel Lashof, director of the NRDC's Climate and Clean Air Program and co-author of the report.

«You always hear a lot of hype about the timetable of EPA regulations, and we think that the timetable is already generous in that compliance is, with the first target in 2020, still more than five years away,» said David Doniger, policy director for NRDC's climate and clean air program.

«You can make things worse that way,» said David Doniger, director of the Climate and Clean Air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

David Doniger, the director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (and in the past a negotiator in climate agreements for the United States), said the Paris climate agreement does allow counting these kinds of cuts.

«I'm optimistic within a pessimistic framework,» said David Doniger the Director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate & Clean Air Program.

«This is another ridiculous attempt by Scott Pruitt and the Trump administration to violate the law,» said John Walke, a former EPA attorney who leads the clean air program at the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council.

«If Scott Pruitt tried to challenge the endangerment finding, he'd be laughed out of court,» David Doniger, director and senior attorney for Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program, told HuffPost.

They have lost everything so far,» David Doniger, director of NRDC's climate and clean air program, said at a briefing Wednesday.

Aliya Haq, special projects director at the NRDC's climate and clean air program, explains why the two groups are nothing alike: «NRDC is fighting day and night to protect our climate and advance clean energy,» Haq said in a statement.

The following is a statement by David Doniger, director of the Climate and Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, on the CRA measures: «Congressional Republicans have no plan to stop climate disruption.

Given methane's potency and the urgency of cutting heat - trapping emissions to avoid the worst damage from global warming, the administration's strategy was less a bold step forward and more of «a toe in the water,» said David Doniger, director for the Natural Resources Defense Council's climate and clean air program.

David Doniger, director of NRDC's Climate and Clean Air program, writes, «NRDC estimates that the agreed HFC phase - down will avoid the equivalent of more than 80 billion tons of CO2 over the next 35 years.»

Benjamin Longstreth, Senior Attorney, Climate and Clean Air Program, Natural Resources Defense Council

If Republicans managed to do enough to undermine the president's climate action plan, said David Doniger, the policy director for the NRDC's climate and clean air program, the entire effort could collapse.

He states that the city has already applied for federal funding from the clean air program and has combined the bike - lane project with some maintenance construction for nearby roads.