Sentences with phrase «clean fuel mandates»

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The final budget legislation included a repeal provisions in ECL Section 19 - 0319 mandating the state to develop a centrally fueled fleet «clean vehicle» program.

Exelon agreed to acquire enough fuel to resupply FitzPatrick and to give Entergy until next June to decide whether to use it, presumably after seeing the new clean energy mandate.

They range from substituting dirty cookstoves with ones that use modern and clean fuels — something the State Department already is working on — to mandating diesel particle filters for vehicles.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

Photo: Flickr, CC This is a Big Deal A Californian regulation mandating that all ocean - going vessels within 24 miles of the state's coast must use cleaner burning low - sulfur diesel fuel is now in effect.

Our fuel prices have long been higher than the national average due to both a stringent «clean air» regulatorily mandated formulation and very high fuel taxes.

Fossil fuel interests seized on the election as a mandate to gut the EPA, strip away clean air and water protections, open up public lands for exploitation, and renege on international climate commitments.

William Astley says: March 10, 2012 at 1:56 am ---- snip --- The Clean Energy Scam The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol — ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter — in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade.

The Clean Energy Scam The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol — ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter — in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade.

To sustain a clean, reliable and affordable power supply, federal, regional and state regulators need to recognize that a market - driven diversity of attributes, not an arbitrary, government - mandated fuel mix, will lead to the lowest cost and most reliable power for consumers.

Fossil fuel interests are working through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to repeal state clean energy mandates, called Renewable Portfolio Standards.

The result is that the two most positive provisions of the energy bill — a clean energy mandate and a tax package reining in handouts for fossil fuels and promoting clean energy — are being removed while detrimental provisions, such as a radical five-fold increase in unsustainable biofuel use, remain.

Titled «Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act» (OFF Act) would also mandate the United States to transition to 80 percent clean renewable energy by 2027 and 100 percent by 2035.

Increases in natural - gas extraction are being driven by rising energy demands, mandates for cleaner burning fuels, and the economics of energy use (1 — 5).

The EPA announced yesterday that it would open a 30 day commenting period as it weighs requests from multiple state governors to use provisions in the Clean Air Act to temporarily suspend the corn ethanol mandate under the Renewable Fuel Standard:

In addition, government fleets are now mandated to switch from petroleum to a cleaner and preferably domestic alternative fuel, such as electricity.

Guidance recommends interventions across sectors, including comprehensive sexuality education in schools; higher age limits for alcohol consumption; mandating seat - belts and helmets through laws; reducing access to and misuse of firearms; reducing indoor air pollution through cleaner cooking fuels; and increasing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.