Sentences with phrase «emission limits»

Manne, A. and R. Richels, 1992: Buying greenhouse gas insurance: The economic costs of CO2 emission limits.

Manufacturers of tractors and engines used in non-road mobile machinery will need more time to meet already adopted stricter emission limits, according to the European Commission.

No doubt he has the ear of the government, who would probably agree with Coutu's statement that emission limits would

Carbon emission limits required to satisfy future representative concentration pathways of greenhouse gases.

The EPA projects Obama's plan would slow the growth in coal over what would have occurred in the absence of emission limits.

Most economists think that a straightforward tax on carbon would have the same incentive effects for alternative fuels and conservation as cap - and - trade without the rigidities and uncertainties of emission limits.

Democrats pledge to continue showing international leadership on climate change, working toward an agreement to set emission limits in unison with other emerging powers.

The MATS rule requires that all U.S. coal - and oil - fired power plants greater than 25 megawatts meet emission limits consistent with the average performance of the top 12 % of existing units — known as the maximum achievable control technology (MACT).

The bureaucrats who operate the LCPD need to justify their jobs so they keep pointlessly tightening the SOx and NOx emission limits with a result that UK power stations are now being shut and this threatens UK power supplies.

The EPA hasn't proposed hard emission limits; rather, it has constructed «pollution - to - power» ratios that establish carbon emission restrictions per unit of power generated.

The statutory emission limits were safely met by all considered methods, both before and after retrofitting.

In a highly anticipated decision, the German Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht) in Leipzig has ruled that cities can ban highly polluting diesel cars if necessary to achieve NO2 emission limits.

During Crist's first few months in office, he signed executive orders calling for stricter tailpipe emission limits for cars sold in Florida, reductions in the state's greenhouse gas emissions, and a mandate requiring utilities to generate at least 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

We are also showing international leadership on climate change, reaching historic agreements to set emission limits in unison with all major developed and developing nations.

«The Department shall promulgate regulations establishing a desired level of declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases.»

The new directive sets stricter emission limits for NOx, SO2 and dust from the largest plants.

Last Tuesday, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt said the agency does not intend to let California set the agenda for national emission limits on vehicles.

Despite the sturm und drang around the announcement by embattled EPA chief Scott Pruitt that he will relax emission limits for 2022 through 2025 vehicles, not much will... read more April 9, 2018 by John Voelcker

The U.S. government has opted for voluntary controls on carbon dioxide, but last year the U.S. Senate adopted a resolution calling for mandatory emission limits.

According to the report's sponsors, this kind of comparative analysis is useful for policymakers considering regulatory approaches; public interest organizations concerned about public health and consumer costs; and financial analysts and investors assessing company risk exposure as global warming emission limits in the U.S. gain more momentum.

«Although there is growing recognition among voters, members of Congress, and power company executives that enforceable emission limits are essential to drive the market for available low emission technologies, many still don't understand the urgency.

Like many other utilities around the country that are facing ever - tightening federal emission limits, Dominion is shifting away from coal and embracing wind power in addition to its already large stake in natural gas.

I propose that all those who believe it is important to limit CO 2 emissions in their state move to California instead of adopting and mandating the Co2 emission limits in their current state.

Backed by 20 countries — and predictably, opposed by countries that still rely heavily on coal (Figure 1)-- the BREF includes new emission limits, expressed as wide, ambiguous ranges, for sulfur dioxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, and particulate matter.

• Flexible approaches to motivate achieving CO2 emission limits that may vary by economic sector, and could include, depending on the sector, market - based incentives; governmental loan guarantees; investment tax credits; performance standards; tax reform; incentives for technology research, development and deployment; and other appropriate policy tools.

KBA emission limits values.

The following figures, from the International Council on Clean Transportation1, summarize the major technologies required to meet each stage of Euro emission limits.

EU emission limits for each standard are summarized in the following tables.

And President Barack Obama has called for a national cap - and - trade system that would set greenhouse - gas emission limits for many businesses and require those that exceeded them to buy allowances from others that haven't (see Chu's Wish List: Cap - and - Trade and Cheaper Solar).

Since the introduction of the EU emissions legislation, all emission limits have been reduced by over 90 %.

The refineries don't like AB32 for a variety of reasons, but primarily because it would require them to have to massively change their refinery operations in order to meet the green house gas emission limits their refineries will have, which would cost them millions of dollars.

Since carbon dioxide emission limits agreed to under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol were to expire at the stroke of midnight on December [continue reading...]

«Even though EU policy has managed to reduce CO2 emissions domestically,» Peiser notes, «this was only achieved by shifting energy - intensive and heavy industries overseas: to locations where there are no stringent emission limits, where energy and labour is cheap and which are now growing much faster than the EU.»

«We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,» Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap - and - trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon - emission limits.

These include views about climate change, where older adults are less likely to see human activity as a main reason behind global warming, and people's level of support for stricter emission limits for power plants to address climate change.

The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, was behind a controversial decision to block California's attempt to impose tough emission limits on car manufacturers, according to insiders at the government Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA - mandated emission limits on conventional sources of electricity, especially coal - fired power plants, are so restrictive that current technology can not meet their demands.

It remains unclear whether the EPA's plan to loosen carbon - dioxide emission limits for 2022 through 2025 vehicles will survive inevitable court challenges.

Oil will become constrained by the level of demand allowed under CO2 emission limits and this will have implications for the behaviour of countries, companies and consumers alike.

AB: Given that CO2 emission limits are, at least so far, linked to countries, any country that allows any immigration at all is reducing the CO2 emissions allowable by its current citizens and their descendants in the future.

Some people have unwisely taken that logic to the extreme and suggested that if the US and other innovating nations just pushed hard on technology that there wouldn't be much need for emission limits, cap and trade or carbon taxes.

(He himself endorsed the concept of power plant emission limits 8 years ago, only to disavow the idea once in office.)

The number sounds ambitious on the surface, but with the expectation of carbon dioxide emission limits becoming stricter in major markets, one million EVs and plug - in hybrids in nine years is the target VW is setting for itself in order to meet the demands for these cars.

Thanks to their extremely low emissions, from 2008 Audi is able to sell its clean direct - injection diesels all over the world, even in the US states of California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Vermont where extremely stringent emission limits apply.

All engines comply with the Euro 6 emission limits, so that the TDI has been labeled a clean diesel.

With their outstandingly efficient fuel consumption, which lies some 20 to 40 percent lower than that of comparable petrol engines, these particularly clean diesel engines now have the potential to comply with the toughest emission limits in the world.

The 1971 model had a respectable 315 hp (235 kW), but that was reduced to a mere 205 hp (153 kW) by the 1976 model year; increasingly stringent exhaust emission limits reduced engine output, and an industry - wide 1972 change in rating systems reduced the horsepower numbers produced by any given engine.

It already meets the exhaust emission limits laid down in the Euro 6 standard, which does not come into force until 2014, and the tough US regulations as well.

A big fight between Texas and the Environmental Protection Agency over its tailpipe emission limits is starting to brew.

This in turn boosts performance and reduces fuel consumption whilst ensuring that current emission limits are respected.