Sentences with phrase «environmental rules»

Of the four remaining Republican candidates, none say they believe that anything should be done to address climate change and all have called for federal environmental rules to be scaled back.

For one thing, there's a complex system of federal, state, and municipal taxes, as well as tough environmental rules.

Which is why we need the government to set and enforce environmental rules.

At the same time, competition from natural gas and stringent environmental rules are pushing coal prices down, making it harder for companies to earn a return on the coal they sell.

However, environmental rules blocked coal plants in many states.

Among local issues that drew attention at the debate was the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in shaping the New York City Department of Environmental Protection's filtration avoidance determination, which gives the city oversight of environmental rules in its upstate watershed communities.

US set to unveil rules to cut carbon pollution from power plants by 30 % The Obama administration will propose sweeping new environmental rules on Monday, cutting carbon pollution from existing power plants by 30 % over 2005 levels by 2030, according to people briefed on the plan.

The Trump administration is pursuing ways to protect domestic vehicle manufacturing by forcing imported cars to meet stricter environmental rules when entering the country, according to senior...

We should see a lot more environmental rules coming out of China over the next few years.

This coffee is certified by both Rainforest Alliance and Smithsonian — rest assured your purchase supports biodiversity if it complies with the strict environmental rules set forth for Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certification.

But Volkswagen diesel enthusiasts who won't wait for scientists to complete their quest will have to take steps to bring their wayward cars in line with environmental rules, which could be a software tweak in some models but may require retrofitting additional components on others.

The automakers don't like that California effectively plays by its own environmental rules and as a subplot in the Trump deal had argued for a single national standard to govern fuel - economy and emissions standards.

Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: Here's How Big Wine Gets to Avoid Environmental Rules in Napa In 2006, Napa County officials issued a permit for The Caves at Soda Canyon, a new winery in the hills east of the city of Napa.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., will bring up legislation reversing one of the last major environmental rules finalized before Barack Obama left office, after a fierce lobbying battle that has left its fate in the hands of a few Senate...

Obama - era regulation one of several recent environmental rules targeted by Trump and Republicans in Congress

Trump's renunciation of the 2015 Paris climate accord, the rollback of many environmental rules, proposed deep budget cuts at key research agencies, and the failure to appoint qualified scientists in many research - related positions fueled the mistrust.

B.C. can't have one set of environmental rules for itself and another for Alberta, she said.

The attorneys in our rulemaking and legislative practice are committed to helping parties challenge environmental rules at the state and federal levels.

The White House could also signal support for controversial policy riders that would bar agencies from spending money on enforcing particular regulations, including environmental rules.

New environmental rules complicate and delay already tricky negotiations over control of Freeport - McMoRan's Grasberg mine.

The power of the WTO works against environmental rules within countries.

The United Nations is the most important such organization, but partly because of United States policy, it has little ability to formulate or police environmental rules.

Attempts to cut environmental rules have not been welcomed by Mr Huhne, however.

Brian Flynn, 48, of Elka Park, said the waiver, overseen through memorandums of understanding with local governments, is an example of how environmental rules have gone too far.

Exemptions from federal environmental rules won by the drilling companies have complicated efforts to gather pollution data and to understand the root of health complaints.

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

According to King's lawsuit, Valley Meat has a long history of violating state environmental rules, including leaving large piles of cattle carcasses to rot and be eaten by maggots.

In 40 years of Clean Air Act regulation, she noted, regulators have never been flatfooted enough to allow environmental rules to dim the nation's lights.

The White House has been postponing environmental rules as it tries to undercut them, a Scientific American analysis shows.

When money gets tight and voters feel especially uncertain about the future, legislators, wanting to look like they are doing something to help, may be tempted to halt the normal environmental rule - making steps.

That's come even as Trump has started to roll back environmental rules such as the Clean Power Plan, which targeted carbon cuts in the power sector.

During the presidential campaign, Trump said environmental rules had «ravaged coal country,» but a coal industry executive said this week it was unlikely anything Trump does would bring back coal jobs.

«The Reagan administration was generally skeptical about costly environmental rules, but with respect to protection of the ozone layer, Reagan was an environmentalist hero.

While far from perfect, the proposal is one of the most significant environmental rules proposed by the United States in recent history and is seen by many as a step in the right direction, as coal - fired power plants account for nearly 40 % of all US carbon emissions.

Under the previous president, Barack Obama, the U.S. used environmental rules to encourage the closing or costly upgrade of coal plants because burning the fuel emits almost twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas and 28 percent more pollutants than heating oil.

In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency's recent proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power stations has dealt another blow to coal plants already under pressure from previous environmental rules and competition with natural gas.

But in the United States, President Trump is trying to revert environmental rules.

To get permission for the new well — the first of its kind drilled after new national environmental rules went into effect — Aristech needed to prove to the Environmental Protection Agency that its waste would remain trapped for at least 10,000 years.

Regulators in New York have been weighing environmental rules on fracking since 2008.

'' [Children] have a deeper concern for following environmental rules (such as not carving names into trees or not stepping on flowers) than for following social rules (such as not picking your nose or being a messy eater).

The bills represent what is certain to be a concerted effort by the new House majority to address what they consider to be burdensome environmental rules, part of a broader assault on what Republicans characterize as job - killing regulations from the executive branch.

«Perhaps most importantly, we need to stay away from tribunals that allow big corporations to sue governments over environmental rule making.

Before becoming head of the EPA, he was Oklahoma's attorney general and repeatedly sued the agency he now runs to block federal environmental rules.