Sentences with phrase «emission operating permits»

Represented industrial client operating a waste - to - energy facility in effort to stay the revocation of air emission operating permits.

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Furthermore, the relatively quick process of converting coal - fired plants to biomass - fired generation is an attractive benefit for power generators whose generation assets are no longer viable as coal plants due to the expiration of operating permits or the introduction of taxes or other restrictions on fossil fuel usage or emissions of GHGs and other pollutants.

Excludes the following units from consideration as major emitting facilities or major stationary sources (or parts thereof) for purposes of compliance with provisions concerning prevention of significant deterioration of air quality and plan requirements for nonattainment areas: (1) those that are subject to the performance standards of this Act; or (2) those with properly operated and maintained equipment to limit particulate matter emissions or subject to a permit under an applicable implementation plan that provides a specified particulate matter emissions limitation and that use good combustion practices to minimize carbon monoxide emissions.

This rule effectively raised the thresholds for GHG emissions that define when permits under the PSD and Title V Operating Permit programs are required for new and existing industrial facilities.

Some environmental organizations came out quickly in opposition to the Lugar plan, saying that its emissions reductions were not adequate to address climate change and that it permitted old coal - burning power plants to continue to operate indefinitely.

Starting Jan. 2, new regulations on GHG emissions from stationary sources go into effect, eventually requiring as many as 6.1 million industrial facilities, power plants, hospitals, big box stores and farms, among other establishments, to get permits to operate or expand.