Sentences with phrase «federal fuels program»

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The federal renewable fuels program insisted on a prohibitively tight construction timeline.

The trust fund is paid for with receipts from the federal fuel tax, and with gas prices at low levels, an increase in the tax might be part of a more extended program.

Advocates for low - income families in Massachusetts are calling on the state and federal governments to increase funding for fuel assistance programs in the shadow of sequestration.

He turned the Federal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky - high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded «kickbacks» to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportableFederal Housing Administration mortgage program into a sweetheart lender with sky - high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded «kickbacks» to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportablefederal judge has branded «kickbacks» to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans.

The proposed cuts include $ 269.78 billion from energy programs, including $ 158.7 billion of fossil fuel subsidies; $ 167.09 billion of agricultural subsidies, including $ 89.82 billion of federal crop insurance disaster aid; $ 212.02 billion of transportation subsidies, including $ 125.80 billion of general revenue transfers to the Highway Trust Fund; $ 101.8 billion of federal flood, crop and nuclear insurance subsidies; and $ 24.99 billion from wasteful or environmental damaging public lands and water projects.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

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.

To date, the federal government has spent more than $ 7 billion compensating people made sick by the government - run nuclear program that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War arms race.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.

The federal case demands sweeping changes in federal climate efforts and in government programs that subsidize or foster development of fossil fuels.

The many serious technical deficiencies of the Yucca Mountain site and DOE's flawed approach to geologic disposal notwithstanding, the most potentially explosive aspect of the federal program is the reality that tens of thousands of shipments of deadly spent nuclear fuel and high - level radioactive waste will travel the nation's highways and railroads - through 43 states and thousands of communities, day after day for upwards of 40 years.

Federal District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill, Eastern District of California, ruled on Thursday that the State of California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program is in violation of the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution and issued an injunction prohibiting its enforcement.

The second is that someone will ask the candidate whether he or she supports the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS: the federal program that, among other things, requires all gasoline sold in this country to contain a minimum amount of «renewable biofuel» — which in Iowa, of course, means corn - based ethanol.

The bleak forecasts are fueling talk of pink slips and program cuts, especially in many urban and poor rural school systems where federal money pays for nearly 20 percent of school budgets.

Instead, the Governor (and the President at the federal level) has put fuel assistance programs on the chopping block.

But what is so interesting about this issue is that the Connecticut Post and the Democratic legislators who are being so articulate and outspoken in their opposition to the proposed federal cut to low income fuel assistance were silent when, back in May, Governor Malloy announced that his Plan B budget would eliminate funding for Connecticut's Operation Fuel heating assistance progfuel assistance were silent when, back in May, Governor Malloy announced that his Plan B budget would eliminate funding for Connecticut's Operation Fuel heating assistance progFuel heating assistance program.

Other federal programs working toward sustainable transportation include the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) Program and the National Fuel Cell Bus Program.

Although the sales climb isn't entirely due to the federal CARS incentive program, there is evidence that fuel economy may be playing a greater role in a new car purchase.

Title: Federal Programs Directory: Automotive Fuel Economy Program Link: https://www.transportation.gov/sustainability/climate/federal-programs-d...

Under the new ecoAUTO program, the federal government will hand you a rebate of up to $ 2,000 if you buy a new hybrid car or other fuel - saving vehicle.

The chief drivers have been high current account deficits fuelled (literally) by oil - the sluggishness of the Indian economy driving out foreign investments, which had been impacted by the tapering of the quantitative easing program of the Federal Reserve Read more -LSB-...]

The federal loan modification programs should help some of these issues fueling the foreclosure and housing crisis.

The California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) and Federal Stimulus Program (Ad Hoc) Committees will conduct a joint workshop to discuss clean technology innovation efforts funded through U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) competitive solicitations with a focus on projects receiving cost - share funding from the Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research and Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Programs.

She began working with Greenpeace in 2008 on federal climate legislation and has since worked on reforming federal fossil fuel leasing programs and fighting new infrastructure projects around the United States.

Clean Fuel Fleet Program, 1998 - 2003 — Voluntary Clean Fuel Fleet (CFF) program was a federal standard that applied to 1998 - 2003 model year engines, both Compression Ignition (CI) and Spark Ignition (SI), over 8,500 lbProgram, 1998 - 2003 — Voluntary Clean Fuel Fleet (CFF) program was a federal standard that applied to 1998 - 2003 model year engines, both Compression Ignition (CI) and Spark Ignition (SI), over 8,500 lbprogram was a federal standard that applied to 1998 - 2003 model year engines, both Compression Ignition (CI) and Spark Ignition (SI), over 8,500 lbs GVWR.

A June report from the National Academies found that numerous federal programs designed to increase energy efficiency or promote renewable fuels have almost no effect on carbon emissions — or, in some cases, actually increase emissions.

It also would advocate for federal vehicle fuel economy standards, for low - emission and zero - emission vehicle (ZEV) and GHG reduction programs, and for more community education on transportation electrification and mass transit.

The cost of annual federal fossil fuel production subsidies is equivalent to the projected 2018 budget cuts from Trump's proposals to slash 10 public programs and services that benefit some of the nation's most vulnerable children and families.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

The federal case demands sweeping changes in federal climate efforts and in government programs that subsidize or foster development of fossil fuels.

Join Argus, the American Carbon Registry and over 200 senior level risk managers, traders and compliance and regulatory executives to discuss the impact of changing federal and regional carbon and emissions programs on North America's carbon and fuels market.

NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supFuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supfuel supply.

In 2009, a historic agreement between the Federal Government, state regulators, and the auto industry established a national program to implement these first meaningful fuel efficiency improvements in over 30 years and the first - ever global warming pollution standards for light - duty vehicles.

(WRI, 2012) US ghg emissions reductions have been achieved in the United States due largely significant fuel switching in the electricity sector from coal to natural gas, an economic slowdown that began in 2008, and some federal and US state regulatory programs designed to reduce ghg emissions.

With a new federal nuclear waste program necessary and on the long - term horizon, the Natural Resources Defense Council sought to learn what state officials think should be done with the spent fuel and radioactive waste from America's 99 commercial nuclear reactors.

Without the federal government capping nuclear industry liability (i.e. Price Anderson Act), signing contracts to take custody and dispose of spent nuclear fuel (i.e. Nuclear Waste Policy Act), bankrolling civilian and military atomic research and development for light water and breeder reactors (i.e. Atomic Energy Act), and other programs, the industry would not exist.

This report reviews the implementation of the energy efficiency provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), including vehicle fuel economy standards, the light bulb standard, appliance and equipment standards, energy use labels, building efficiency policies, federal energy management, and efficiency programs.

The federal coal leasing program amounts to a major fossil fuel subsidy, favoring coal at the expense of cleaner forms of generating electricity.A recent federal court ruling rejected BLM's argument that increasing the supply of coal would not increase carbon pollution, in part because coal competes with cleaner methods of generating electricity.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government delivered more than twice as many federal dollars to research initiatives, tax incentives and other programs benefiting fossil fuels than it supplied to renewable energy from 2002 to 2008, according to a report released Friday by two public policy groups.

Changing the point of obligation under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)-- moving it closer to U.S. consumers — continues to distract from the real problems with the RFS that Congress should address, either by repealing or significantly reforming the program.

The federal coal leasing program amounts to a major fossil fuel subsidy, favoring coal at the expense of cleaner forms of generating electricity.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and others in the Obama administration should take the President's call to climate action seriously, beginning with a moratorium and comprehensive review of the federal coal leasing program, including its role in fueling the climate crisis.

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

The U.S. government delivered more than twice as many federal dollars to research initiatives, tax incentives and other programs benefiting fossil fuels than it supplied to renewable energy from 2002 to 2008.

With the advent of new California programs such as the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (a comprehensive investment program to stimulate the development and deployment of low - carbon fuels and advanced vehicle technologies), the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and a federal waiver allowing California to set its own carbon dioxide motor vehicle emission standards, California is well positioned to develop a system of sustainable, clean, alternative transportationProgram (a comprehensive investment program to stimulate the development and deployment of low - carbon fuels and advanced vehicle technologies), the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and a federal waiver allowing California to set its own carbon dioxide motor vehicle emission standards, California is well positioned to develop a system of sustainable, clean, alternative transportationprogram to stimulate the development and deployment of low - carbon fuels and advanced vehicle technologies), the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and a federal waiver allowing California to set its own carbon dioxide motor vehicle emission standards, California is well positioned to develop a system of sustainable, clean, alternative transportation fuels.

Without a functional democracy, there can be no federal role in responding to voter demand, not only for a clean energy economy that is less dependent on fossil fuels, but also for clean air, water, large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and a robust federal climate change science program.

R&D for renewable energy, de-funding the EPA Energy Star program, ignoring the Social Cost of Carbon, renewing leasing / sale of coal on Federal lands without regard to whether the coal companies are paying a reasonable price, threatening to open more Federal lands to fossil fuel extraction... the list goes on.

If federal purchasing alone proves insufficient to drive the market for alterative fuel vehicles, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is required to expand the alterative fuel vehicle purchasing program to qualifying private and municipal fleets to meet EPAct's goal of moving 30 % of this nation's vehicle fleet to alterative fuel vehicles by 2010.

Eliminate federal subsidies for fossil fuels and re-direct those federal funds to renewable energy development and energy efficiency programs.