Sentences with phrase «emissions limits»

This regulation, first proposed in 2012 then revised in 2013, will set carbon emissions limits for new fossil - fuel power plants.

The budget would also create a $ 4 - billion fund to help states that want to enact even stricter emissions limits on the power sector.

Isn't the determination of a carbon emissions limit itself advocating a policy of not emitting more carbon?

This will include land criteria and greenhouse gas emission limits for anaerobic digestion.

These cuts are supposed to be just the beginning of a process of increasingly stringent emissions limits.

The computer tools contain emissions of countries and sectors, greenhouse gas emission limits under different equity principles, emission mitigation potential and associated costs.

Market penetration of new emission limit levels for passenger cars [2].

Second, the economic costs from emissions limits would start as soon as the policy went into effect and under most proposals would become substantial within around 20 years.

While CO2 output has only recently been regulated, statutory emissions limits have been in place since the 1970s.

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

Unfortunately, one of the more serious effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), ocean acidification, is not presently a driving force behind emissions limits.

What's needed is a demonstration that emissions limits really are in the interest of their people.

They also account for a wide range of uncertain assumptions about technology cost, availability and CO2 emissions limits.

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 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 Commission's proposed solution is to extend the so - called «flexibility scheme», which was introduced to facilitate the transition between the different emission stages and allows manufacturers to place on the market a limited number of vehicles fitted with engines that comply with the less stringent emission limits of the previous stage.

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.

In fact, Pielke has supported carbon taxes and the EPA's carbon dioxide emissions limits on power plants.

The reporting survey indicated that the issue of unburnable carbon is not being addressed, and the current strategies laid out in annual reports talk of growth that is incompatible with emissions limits.

We already know that coal is being phased out, primarily through market forces, but also through federal greenhouse gas emissions limits imposed by President Obama's EPA, for both new power plants (the rules are already in place) and existing power plants (the rules are still being negotiated).

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 United States wants any future agreement on climate to include provisions for tradable carbon credits whereby industrial countries could exceed emissions limits by planting forests and exchanging carbon allotments with forested countries.

Seniors (31 %) are less likely than those under age 30 (60 %) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change.

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.

Naturally the S 65 AMG fulfils all standard exhaust emissions limits such as EU 4.

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

If the Department had established the regulations required by the GWSA and set declining annual aggregate emissions limits in the electricity and heating sectors, for example, power plant developers, like Footprint, and pipeline developers, like Kinder Morgan, would have a clear standard to meet in demonstrating that their projects will comply with the mandates of the GWSA.

ref A key strategy to address ocean acidification is reinforcing existing environmental laws (e.g., U.S. Clean Water Act) to: limit runoff and associated pollutants, control coastal erosion, and enforce emission limits for pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.

In June, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed emissions limits for existing power plants that would achieve a 30 percent reduction in carbon pollution by 2030, compared to 2005 levels.

The relationship between cumulative emissions and peak warming allows us to show how delaying mitigation in the short term creates the need for more rapid emission reductions later, in order to stay below a given cumulative emissions limit.

Over at Dot Earth, Andrew Revkin has made the case that this newer, «softer» approach to climate negotiations may prove more effective than previous approaches that tried to impose hard emissions limits on countries.

Aides said Ms. McCarthy would also announce a yearlong schedule for an environmental listening tour — a series of meetings across the country with the public, the industry and environmental groups as the agency works to establish emissions limits on existing power plants — a far more costly and controversial step.

In the past, efforts at reaching global coordinated action on climate change has been undermined in large part because the United States insisted on binding emissions limits for countries like India and China.

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.

Countries are trying to divide up by 2015 the burden of emissions limits needed to stave off the worst effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and more frequent droughts.

Most manufacturers use SCR technology to meet NOx emission limits which were fully phased in 2010.

At Chevron, a similar resolution sought to make the oil company's current carbon emissions reduction goals more challenging by syncing the targets with the global emissions limits needed to prevent runaway global warming.

This would require more efforts to reduce these air pollutants, such as banning diesel cars that exceed EU emission limits.»

Thus the 2020 GHG emissions limit established in response to AB 32 is now slightly higher than the 427 MMTCO2e in the initial Scoping Plan.»

Our evaluation of a fossil fuel emissions limit is not based on climate models but rather on observational evidence of global climate change as a function of global temperature and on the fact that climate stabilization requires long - term planetary energy balance.

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.

Why do we still focus on green cars some 40 years after the EPA imposed the most significant emissions limits on cars?

Ian Bruce, climate change specialist with the David Suzuki Foundation, said B.C. emissions limits similar to those in California would be «ideal.»

For the first time, the panel has also set a carbon emissions limit beyond which climate change will be unpreventable.

Effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with «permission to pollute» -LSB-...]

Proponents for tighter emission limits seem to want the available allowances to exactly match emissions but that is unprecedented in all previous trading programs.