Sentences with phrase «federal clean air»

«Ruling on Mercury Emissions Is Appealed»: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, «The Bush administration has appealed a court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the federal Clean Air Act when it issued less stringent requirements to reduce mercury releases from power plants.

For decades, Morgan Lewis has represented and counseled companies and industry associations on regulations, litigation, and other issues related to the federal Clean Air Act and state air pollution control statutes.

O'Neill found that while the LCFS is an authorized regulation as defined by the federal Clean Air Act, California's authority «is not unfettered».

Last year, the Environmental Protection Act (EPA) issued proposed guidelines, known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP), directing all states to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power generation, purportedly in accordance with Section 111 (d) of the federal Clean Air Act.

The US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Ranking Minority Member strongly criticized Environmental Protection Agency Administrator E. Scott Pruitt's plans to adopt a «back to basics» process for reviewing the federal Clean Air Act's National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

The report (entitled «The Benefits of Meeting Federal Clean Air Standards in the South Coast and San Joaquin Valley Air Basins»), co-written by Jane Hall and Victor Brajer, both professors of economics affiliated with the university's Institute for Economics and Environment Studies, focused primarily on the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast air basins.

Indeed, such judicial resolution would trample Congress's carefully calibrated process of cooperative federalism where states work in tandem with [the Environmental Protection Agency] to administer the federal Clean Air Act.»

EPA: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issues an emergency memorandum to change how federal clean air laws are made, saying the agency's advisers should consider any adverse economic or energy effects.

While Birmingham's air quality has improved since the passage of the federal Clean Air Act, it still ranks among the top cities for air pollution, particularly fine particle pollution.

State Agencies Must Purchase or Lease Vehicles That Use Alternative Fuels Louisiana's Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative further states, «The commissioner of administration shall not purchase or lease any motor vehicle for use by any state agency unless that vehicle is capable of and equipped for using an alternative fuel that results in lower emissions of oxides of nitrogen, volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, or particulates or any combination thereof that meet or exceed federal Clean Air Act standards.»

We are hopeful that the Court will ultimately uphold this key pillar of the Obama Administration's commitments that it took to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris, as it earlier upheld the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s authority to regulate global warming pollution under the federal Clean Air Act.

On the same panel, Mark Brownstein, chief counsel of the Energy Program at the Environmental Defense Fund, noted that fracking is already subject to federal clean air and water rules, but a lot of regulation has to come from the states themselves.

Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving four revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted on December 12, 2016 and February 21, 2017, specific to air quality permitting and public notice for air quality permit applications.

Pursuant to the Federal Clean Air Act (CAA or the Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving portions of three Texas State Implementation Plan (SIP) submittals pertaining to CAA requirements to prohibit emissions which will significantly contribute to nonattainment or interfere with maintenance of the 1997 and 2006 fine...

President Obama promised to use this authority under the federal Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gases from electric power plants.

Chen said the method also meets federal Clean Air Act standards, eliminating costs that other methods incur in meeting environmental regulations.

After a scientific review required every five years by the federal Clean Air Act, the Obama EPA tightened the national smog standard in 2015 to 70 parts per billion, down from the 75 ppb limit set during the Bush administration.

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 standards.

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states contend.

The company was ultimately charged with 19 federal Clean Air Act violations.

Almost a year ago, the DEC cited a different company, the Tonawanda Coke Corporation for multiple violations of the federal Clean Air Act.

DEC adopted a rule to allow the State's program to sunset in favor of the federal Clean Air Interstate Rule, which will benefit businesses by eliminating the costs and other burdens of having to comply with two separate but effectively identical programs.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced that he supports Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's move to file a notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by failing to...

That state's powerful regulator, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), given extraordinary powers under the federal Clean Air Act, led the U.S. to adopt stringent NOx restrictions.

Not exact matches

The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

Despite the President's federal agenda, California — which has the largest automobile market in the country — can set its own standards thanks to a waiver in the Clean Air Act, which grants the state considerable influence over the auto industry, the Times reports.

Diesel cars from Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi, which is owned by VW, were rigged to cheat on clean air rules with software that made emissions look cleaner than they actually were, according to federal and California regulators.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tenneco (NYSE: TEN), one of the world's leading designers, manufacturers and distributors of Ride Performance and Clean Air products and technology solutions for diversified markets, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Federal - Mogul, a leading global supplier to original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket.

Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey said, «I am pleased Governor Cuomo is making good use of federal funds by supporting clean air and alternative transportation programs.

Menendez told reporters on his way into the meeting that he would press for more federal money under existing railroad and clean - air programs.

As in past election cycles, LCV Action Fund supported federal candidates who demonstrated a commitment to leading on climate change, promoting clean energy, and protecting our air, water, land and wildlife.

State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and 13 other attorneys general from various states and the District of Columbia filed on Thursday a notice to sue the federal agency to force it to comply with those requirements set by the Clean Air Act.

Even before the storm, the power authority had been operating under a federal court order for Clean Air Act violations and was reported to have cheated its ratepayers for many years.

Since, as the editorial points out, federal laws such as the Clean Air Act are not subject to the whim of this or any future president, carbon emissions also need to be addressed by federal legislation.

A federal judge has fined Tonawanda Coke $ 12.5 million dollars for violating the Clean Air Act the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

«The state has promised hundreds of thousands of dollars to the community to clean the air and they need to follow up with that,» Enck said, stating that the concern of slow progressing results from state and federal organizations like the the EPA or DEC all comes down to a lack of funding.

The DOL works with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency which has federal responsibility for asbestos exposure generally, under the Clean Air Act and the Toxics Substance and Control Act, and specifically in schools, under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act.

«We applaud Congresswoman Stefanik and all of her colleagues for their efforts to secure federal funding for monitoring whether clean air regulations are working, and for restoring Adirondack lakes damaged by acid rain,» said Adirondack Council Executive Director William C. Janeway in a statement.

As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, ensuring public health and sustaining a federal agency to regulate global warming emissions is crucial to the future of our nation and preservation of our planet.

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.

Other environmental laws like the Clean Air Act set the federal level of regulation as a minimum, not a maximum, for the states, says Rena Steinzor, a law professor at the University of Maryland.

But the Clean Air Act, which the Obama administration used as the legal mechanism for the plan, mandates that the federal government regulate carbon dioxide emissions because the EPA has already declared it to be a pollutant, said David Goldston, government affairs director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The challengers had argued, in part, that the Clean Air Act prohibits the federal government from regulating power plants as it has proposed because the facilities are already covered by a separate regulation.

Passed four decades ago, the Clean Air Act gave Calif. a «waiver» to petition the federal government for permission to impose its own benchmarks, but the Bush administration had denied the request.

Air in the Bay Area air basin is usually cleaner than in the Central Valley, and it has also experienced an overall decline in the number of days each year that PM2.5 exceeds federal standarAir in the Bay Area air basin is usually cleaner than in the Central Valley, and it has also experienced an overall decline in the number of days each year that PM2.5 exceeds federal standarair basin is usually cleaner than in the Central Valley, and it has also experienced an overall decline in the number of days each year that PM2.5 exceeds federal standards.

Kahn rips a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report that lists a representative sample of 175 academic institutions that regularly violate the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right - to - Know Act, the Resource Conservation Recovery Act, the Toxic Substance Control Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, to name just a few.

It is Federal law as part of the clean air act.

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.

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The Zephyr's power train is relatively clean, achieving a ULEV - 2 rating from the California Air Resources Board, as well as Federal Tier 2, Bin 5 exhaust and LEV - 2 evaporative ratings.