Sentences with phrase «federal air pollution standards»

71 percent of African Americans live in counties that violate federal air pollution standards, as compared to 58 percent of the white population.

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

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In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

Leading a coalition of 11 states, AG Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit to compel the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly revise national air quality standards for air pollution involving soot.

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

New York City's Clean Heat Program was launched in 2010 to eliminate the use of residual diesel fuel oils — diesel - based fuels that remain after gasoline and distillate fuels have been removed from crude — in residential buildings, in order to help address city air pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarair pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standarAir Act standards.

A design value is the three - year average of pollution concentrations measured at each monitoring location and is used to determine whether a county is in attainment with federal air quality standards.

The EPA claims that Volkswagen's actions violated the Clean Air Act, which requires that automakers certify to the EPA that their vehicles will meet federal emissions standards for controlling air pollutiAir Act, which requires that automakers certify to the EPA that their vehicles will meet federal emissions standards for controlling air pollutiair pollution.

The Clean Air Act empowers the federal government to set tailpipe emissions standards, but a waiver granted to California allows the state to impose stricter air pollution standards than those set by the feAir Act empowers the federal government to set tailpipe emissions standards, but a waiver granted to California allows the state to impose stricter air pollution standards than those set by the feair pollution standards than those set by the feds.

There is historical validation of this effect, with California repeatedly having increased the stringency of its local air pollution standards, followed by parallel Federal action under the Clean Air Aair pollution standards, followed by parallel Federal action under the Clean Air AAir Act.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top air pollution regulator Wednesday denounced the federal government's proposal to demand higher fuel efficiency in new cars because a 24 - word passage written into the Bush administration's 417 - page plan would block California's aggressive efforts to enact its own emissions standards.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

The Danskammer Plant, located along the shore of the Hudson River in the town of Newburgh, New York, has been responsible for more toxic pollution than nearly all of the total 646 industrial sites in the state and numerous violations of federal air quality standards.