Sentences with phrase «emissions permit programs»
But Borenstein noted that policymakers are considering a far lower price — $ 20 per ton of greenhouse gases — as the maximum that industry could be charged in proposed tradable emissions permit programs.
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On Monday, Gina McCarthy, the E.P.A. assistant administrator for air issues, told state environmental officials in a letter that if Texas would not regulate carbon emissions from smokestacks, the federal government would seize control of the state's permitting program on Thursday.
Current debate on Capitol Hill and in many statehouses favors programs that cap emissions and lower the cap over time, using permits to ensure compliance.
SACRAMENTO — Only two weeks after California voters turned back an effort to suspend the state's program to combat climate change, a cap - and - trade market for greenhouse gas emissions saw its first trade, a swap of a climate - change pollution permit for 2012.
Key Issues for Discussion and Comment in the ANPR: Descriptions of key provisions and programs in the CAA, and advantages and disadvantages of regulating GHGs under those provisions; How a decision to regulate GHG emissions under one section of the CAA could or would lead to regulation of GHG emissions under other sections of the Act, including sections establishing permitting requirements for major stationary sources of air pollutants; Issues relevant for Congress to consider for possible future climate legislation and the potential for overlap between future legislation and regulation under the existing CAA; and, scientific information relevant to, and the issues raised by, an endangerment analysis.
For example, nine states in the Northeast, as part of a regional cap - and - trade program that sets overall limits on carbon and then allows states to trade permits to pollute, have committed to cut emissions by 45 percent during the next year and by another 2.5 percent a year after that until 2020.
RGGI is a «Cap and Auction» program that caps electric generating unit emissions and then auctions permits to emit CO2 or allowances.
The Pennsylvania Democrat, who has been working on portions of the bill aimed at reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, also told reporters that for the first 10 years to 15 years of the program, most of industry's permits would be free.
We have launched the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to market.
Revises the new source review program to cover unit changes after 2008 and to permit the lowest achievable emission rate standard to take cost into account.
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.
States can draw from a number of options, including joining or starting a cap - and - trade program, which sets limits on emissions, then allows for the purchase and sale of pollution permits; boosting their share of renewable energy in electricity generation; and tightening efficiency standards on plants and energy users.
Those programs typically put a state cap on emissions but allow utilities to buy and sell permits allowing them to pollute.
On Jan. 1, California is scheduled to include gasoline, diesel and propane in its three - year - old, first - in - the - nation program that requires companies to buy carbon permits to cover their emissions of greenhouse gases.
On January 2, 2011, EPA's motor vehicle GHG emission standards will go into effect, making GHGs air pollutants «subject to regulation» under the Clean Air Act's Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) pre-construction permitting program.
He wants to give out many emission permits free to energy - intensive industries and to the local distribution companies (LDCs) that funnel electricity to users, rather than auctioning the permits off, and he wants permit giveaways to the industrial sector to continue throughout the whole length of the cap - and - trade program, rather than be phased out.
RGGI is the nation's first state - level greenhouse gas cap - and - trade program, in which power plants must buy enough state - issued permits to cover emissions of carbon dioxide, which an international scientific consensus blames as the cause of man - made climate change.
All other states that implement an EPA - approved air permitting program must review their existing permitting authority and inform EPA if their programs do not address GHG emissions.
In the first rule, EPA is proposing to require permitting programs in 13 states to make changes to their implementation plans to ensure that GHG emissions will be covered.
This program limits carbon emissions and allows companies that reduce their emissions to profit by selling emissions permits to other companies.
You have committed to a cap - and - trade program for GHG emissions reductions and an immediate cancellation of the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance program, with permit auction and increased tax revenues slated to be re-invested in improving the environmental performance of the industry.
Climate Bill Analysis Part 20: Over-Allocation of Pollution Permits Would Result in No Emissions Reduction Requirement During Early Years of Climate Program
Mr. Ketzback's CAA practice routinely involves counseling, permitting and litigation matters relating to the New Source Review (NSR), New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs or MACT) and other complex CAA programs.
After evaluating the progress of this permitting program, EPA believes that it would not be feasible from an administrative perspective to lower the thresholds and bring in smaller sources of CO2 emissions because doing so would overwhelm state permitting authorities.