Sentences with phrase «establish emissions limits»

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.

Because the bill would require the state board to establish emissions limits and other requirements, the violation of which would be a crime, this bill would create a state - mandated local program.

Not exact matches

-- For calendar year 2017 and each year thereafter, the annual limit on the number of emission allowances from the strategic reserve account that may be auctioned is an amount equal to 10 percent of the emission allowances established for that calendar year under section 721 (a).

-- For each of calendar years 2012 through 2016, the annual limit on the number of emission allowances from the strategic reserve account that may be auctioned is an amount equal to 5 percent of the emission allowances established for that calendar year under section 721 (a).

China will not establish a price for carbon, through a tax or emissions limits, which are at the center of the ICAP proposal, unless doing so is in their economic self - interest.

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.»

There are a number of important takeaways from the report, like establishing a limit on carbon emissions before the world crashes through 2 °C of warming.

However, the 160 indicative nationally determined contributions (INDCs) pledges submitted by signatories to the UNFCCC prior to COP2121, indicate that current targets for GHG emissions are unlikely to limit warming to below 2 °C 22 With no binding agreement established at COP21 for INDCs, there is no clear indication of how successful the Paris Agreement will be20.

Of course, some ships are already using low sulphur fuel oil to meet the even more stringent limits of 0.10 % m / m when trading in the already - established emission control areas.

Euro 5b legislation included, for the first time, a PN emission limit of 6.0 × 1011 / km to the mass - based limits for compression ignition engines established in Euro 5a.

Establishes limits on the number of emission allowances from the strategic reserve account that may be auctioned for 2012 - 2016 and for 2017 and thereafter.

The EPA could then establish a regulatory framework for controlling all of America's GHG emissions, not just a limited subcategory of those emissions as we are doing now, thus distributing the burdens of decarbonzation fairly and equitably among all classes of GHG emitters.

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

She said climate sensitivity and estimates of its uncertainty were important to establishing the cost benefit of taking action to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

«The Department shall promulgate regulations establishing a desired level of declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gases.»

The GWSA requires DEP to pass regulations establishing declining greenhouse gas emissions limits for Massachusetts.

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.

On August 3, 2015, the EPA released the final Clean Power Plan, which establishes the first - ever limits on carbon emissions from power plants — the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S.

The Clean Power Plan establishes the nation's first - ever limits on carbon dioxide emissions — the primary contributor to global warming — from power plants.

Released in 2015 by the Obama Administration EPA, the CPP established the first national standards to limit CO2 emissions from fossil - fuel - fired power plants (Electric Generating Units,... Read more →

The EPA hasn't proposed hard emission limits; rather, it has constructed «pollution - to - power» ratios that establish carbon emission restrictions per unit of power generated.

«The initial challenge is simply to establish a system that will demonstrate the societal decision that GHG emissions shall have a price, and to provide the signal of what constitutes appropriate short - term and long - term measures to limit GHG emissions,» the study concluded.

California, which has a waiver under the 1970 Clean Air Act giving it the right to set its own vehicle emissions standards, reached an agreement with the Obama administration and the auto industry that established the first limits on tailpipe carbon emissions.

176.1 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations establishing programs and other measures for the use of economic and financial instruments and market - based approaches, including without being limited to emissions trading, for the purposes of maintaining or improving existing environmental standards, protecting the environment and achieving environmental quality goals in a cost effective manner.

In December 2005 the Arctic Inuit people petitioned the American Government at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission to establish mandatory limits on GHG emissions and help Artic Inuit people adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

the Arctic Inuit people petitioned the American Government at the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in December 2005 to establish mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions and help Arctic Inuit people adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.