Sentences with phrase «emissions limits imposed»

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).

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Such a scheme would impose a limit on the carbon emissions that a company can release.

It says nations will have to impose drastic curbs on their still rising greenhouse gas emissions to keep a promise made by almost 200 countries in 2010 to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times.

Even die - hard Alaskan antienvironmentalists have begun to warm up to the idea of imposing limits on greenhouse - gas emissions, according to The Wall Street Journal, because homes on the coast there are already beginning to slip into rising seas.

But economists generally think those mandates — dubbed Renewable Portfolio Standards or Clean Energy Standards — may not lower emissions as effectively as would imposing emissions limits directly.

If Congress passes laws imposing a limit on US greenhouse gas emissions, energy - intensive sectors such as steel - making and cement manufacture would almost certainly face increased costs.

The automaker's current growth potential is capped by strict environmental regulations that impose a production limit of 10,000 cars per year based on current fleet - average emissions, reports Automotive News.

3) The third point, about emissions taxes or caps imposing heavy costs for no climate benefit, presumes that such limits won't spur innovation, efficiency and a shift to lower - emitting energy sources.

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

These limits can be imposed by regulation, and are justified by court decisions requiring the Environmental Protection Authority to control greenhouse gas emissions.

In the first period (2005 - 07) the allocation will not impose any tough restrictions on emissions, because it is a trial period, and the Kyoto limits do not apply until 2008.

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.

In February, 2016, shortly after we put up this post, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations» aviation agency, announced an agreement with the global aviation industry to impose binding limits on CO2 emissions for all new airplanes delivered after 2028.

Such a system imposes a limit or «cap» on the total emissions for participants in the system, lowering the cap over time with the goal of meeting an overarching reduction target.

If the propaganda and articles generated by the industry are any indication there is serious concern by fossil fuel users over any attempts to impose limits on mercury emissions from coal burning sources.

Announced reforms to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, along with a proposal to impose CO2 limits on fossil fuel power plants that are eligible to receive capacity market payments to remain operating, will limit the ability for coal generation to regain lost market share.

Many standards use emission factors in their prescription and therefore do not impose absolute limits on the emissions.

Note: A federal appeals court this week emphatically upheld the endangerment finding, concluding that the EPA was «unambiguously correct» that the Clean Air Act requires the federal government to impose limits once it has determined that emissions are causing harm.

When asked why Howard Government would not impose limits on Australia's emissions, (you know, like the US does on SO2) he snapped: «We are not trying to run some kind of police state».12

Obama has held the position that climate change is caused by humans, especially by fossil energy burning, since at least his time in the US Senate, when he and 39 other senators in 2006 wrote President Bush calling for government - imposed limits on heat - trapping gas emissions.

This week we heard that Alberta Premier Alison Redford is considering increasing the price of carbon in Alberta by imposing a limit on tar - sands emissions and a $ 40 - per - tonne - tax on production above that limit.

This finding will not stop the President and the EPA from imposing more limits on greenhouse - gas emissions from fossil fuels.

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A bill introduced by Sen. John McCain, R - Ariz., and Joseph Lieberman, D - Conn., to impose the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States is scheduled to come before the Senate this week.

Ever since a climate bill stalled in the Senate four years ago, environmental and public health activists have been pressing Obama to use his executive authority to impose carbon limits on the power sector, which accounts for 38 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions.

The state has sought federal permission to impose stricter limits on greenhouse gas emissions.