Sentences with phrase «deciding emissions caps»

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SaskPower decided to retrofit its plant in part to satisfy Canadian regulations that will cap emissions from new and old units from 2015.

Last year, the nine states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap - and - trade program for carbon dioxide (CO2) decided to lower the program's emissions cap by 45 % starting in 2014.

Imagine lobbyists for the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Nature Conservancy controlled an EPA rulemaking panel that would decide whether a petition to cap greenhouse gas emissions sponsored by the U.S. Climate Action Partnership — an alliance that includes all three aforementioned environoia groups — would become law.

In 2009, the government decided that aviation emissions must be capped at 2005 levels — 37.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (MtCO2)-- by 2050.