Sentences with phrase «fuel standard failed»

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New York, California and three other U.S. states said they sued the federal government for delaying the rollout of higher «gas - guzzler» penalties for automakers whose vehicles fail to meet minimum fuel - economy standards.

However, further budget backing for greener vehicles was limited to a small rise in vehicle excise duty for new diesel cars that fail to meet rigorous emissions standards — disappointing campaigners who had hoped for a rise in fuel duty or a diesel scrappage scheme.

Beekmantown was faulted in a state audit report released last month, which showed that the town's highway department had overspent for fuel by over $ 21,000 and the town clerk failed to adhere to a number of state standards.

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.

As many as 5.33 million «yellow label» vehicles that fail to meet Chinese fuel standards will be «eliminated» this year, the document said.

As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) number 301, «Fuel System Integrity.»

To the extent that such an approach has proven ineffectual, it's been because politicians placed the desires of business before the needs of the environment, as for example when the Clinton and Bush Administrations failed to tighten fuel economy standards.

(05/18/2012) The palm oil industry has hired lobbying powerhouse Holland & Knight to help overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that palm oil - based biodiesel fails to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets under the country's Renewable Fuels Standard, reports The Hill.

A broad, diverse, and growing chorus of voices continues to tell Washington that Enough Is Enough as politicians like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) squabble for more special - interest handouts veiled as so - called «fixes» to the fundamentally failed Renewable Fuel Standard.

One can hardly fail to note the contrast between the standard, communitarian rhetoric of climate change advocacy on behalf of getting rid of fossil fuels — we all need to act together to save the Earth!

Last week, Senator Pete Domenici (R - NM) moved to take the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) from the Energy Bill and attach it to the Farm Bill, claiming that he didn't want it to get lost if the Energy Bill fails.

Thankfully, in November 2007 the Center won a major lawsuit against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when it set unreasonably low national fuel economy standards for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.

Thankfully, in November 2007 the Center and our allies prevailed in Center for Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a major lawsuit filed against the Department of Transportation for failing to properly account for greenhouse gas emissions when setting unreasonably low national fuel economy standards.

Although the auto executives differed on the degree to which they would accept tougher fuel economy standards for vehicles the consensus was that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regime, enacted in 1975, had failed to achieve its purpose of reducing US dependence on foreign oil and reducing domestic petrol consumptfuel economy standards for vehicles the consensus was that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) regime, enacted in 1975, had failed to achieve its purpose of reducing US dependence on foreign oil and reducing domestic petrol consumptFuel Economy (CAFE) regime, enacted in 1975, had failed to achieve its purpose of reducing US dependence on foreign oil and reducing domestic petrol consumption.

The report warns that continued burning of fossil fuels to increase living standards while expecting humanity to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects through better technologies «fails to appreciate the nature of the threat posed by ice sheet instability and sea level rise.