Sentences with phrase «gas emission permits»

Market mechanisms that enable the international transfer of greenhouse gas emission permits or emission reduction credits have been part of the international climate regime for two decades.

Rehdanz, K. ja Tol, R. S. J. (2005), Unilateral regulation of bilateral trade in greenhouse gas emission permits, Ecological Economics, 54: 397416.

Unused greenhouse - gas emission permits from the first period won't have buyers in the second phase, officials from the European Union and the United Nations said earlier this week.

The Baytown project is waiting on air quality and greenhouse gas emissions permits from federal and state agencies, and we are hopeful they will come soon.

Not exact matches

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

The high spatial and temporal resolution of the SWITCH model permits an assessment of the energy generation, resource demands, and greenhouse gas emissions that come with different mixes of energy generation and distribution choices» says Daniel Kammen.

Notably, California and 11 other states had been seeking waivers from the EPA permitting them to pass laws requiring reduced car emissions of greenhouse gases from the 2009 model year onward.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.

McCain has cosponsored a bill, so far rejected by his colleagues, that would set up a national system of tradable emissions permits for greenhouse gases and would require U.S. emissions in 2010 to be no more than in 2000 — not quite Kyoto, which sets the levels 7 percent below 1990 — but a start.

Instead of regulating carbon at the many smokestacks where emissions occur, the group recommends regulating by cap - and - trade permits directed «upstream» at the wellheads, mine mouths, and import points where oil, coal, and natural gas enter the economy.

SACRAMENTO — Only two weeks after California voters turned back an effort to suspend the state's program to combat climate change, a cap - and - trade market for greenhouse gas emissions saw its first trade, a swap of a climate - change pollution permit for 2012.

The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

Current proposals are to set a limit on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse - gas emissions by issuing permits that limit those emissions to entities like power and industrial plants.

Submission of a statement by the owner or operator, or the designated representative of the owners and operators, of a covered entity that the owners and operators will hold allowances or offset credits for the entity's combined emissions and attributable greenhouse gas emissions to which section 722 applies shall be deemed to meet the proposed and approved planning requirements of title V. Recordation by the Administrator of transfers of allowances and offset credits shall amend automatically all applicable proposed or approved permit applications, compliance plans, and permits.

The redesigned label provides expanded information to American consumers about new vehicle fuel economy and fuel consumption, greenhouse gas and smog - forming emissions, and projected fuel costs and savings, and also includes a smartphone interactive code that permits direct access to additional web resources.

But Borenstein noted that policymakers are considering a far lower price — $ 20 per ton of greenhouse gases — as the maximum that industry could be charged in proposed tradable emissions permit programs.

But nearly all of the research money under the Obama plan was slated to come from the revenues generated by auctioning permits for greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr. Barnes says the only approach that guarantees deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions is to sell a steadily declining number of permits to emit the gas — forcing polluters to pay the full cost of using the shared atmosphere — and returning the revenue to citizens in a streamlined way, as in the Social Security system.

Companies that emit these gases, mainly when they burn fossil fuels, would be able to buy and sell emissions permits, an approach called «cap - and - trade» that reward those who find cheap ways to control pollution.

New Zealand's government on Thursday moved to burnish its environmental credentials by announcing a ban on all new offshore oil and gas exploration permits in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.

The Pennsylvania Democrat, who has been working on portions of the bill aimed at reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, also told reporters that for the first 10 years to 15 years of the program, most of industry's permits would be free.

Shannon Fisk, an attorney for the National Resources Defense, which has joined EPA in the federal lawsuit against DTE over violating the New Source Review provisions when it upgraded its Unit 2, pointed out the MDNRE issued DTE's permit just 8 days after the end of the public comment period regarding greenhouse gas emissions.

If the permit remained under consideration until January, EPA's new greenhouse gas permitting policy would have required an analysis of best available controls for reducing CO2 emissions, he said.

None of the funds made available to the Environmental Protection Agency by this division or any other Act may be expended for purposes of enforcing or promulgating any regulation (other than with respect to section 202 of the Clean Air Act) or order, taking action relating to, or denying approval of state implementation plans or permits because of the emissions of greenhouse gases due to concerns regarding possible climate change.

We have launched the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to markGas Technical Engagement Program to share best practices on issues such as water management, methane emissions, air quality, permitting, contracting, and pricing to help increase global gas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to markgas supplies and facilitate development of the associated infrastructure that brings them to market.

The plan would force companies to buy permits from the government for greenhouse gas emissions above a certain cap.

A tradable permit is an economic policy instrument under which rights to discharge pollution - in this case an amount of heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions - can be exchanged through either a free or a controlled permit - market.

Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.

The Point Carbon study, released in June, said countries like the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy — faced with a $ 5 - per - ton rise in emissions permit prices — would switch from coal to gas.

The recent recession has also left emissions permits undersold, meaning there's room, under the EU limit, to burn more coal or gas overall.

On a larger scale, the EU emissions trading scheme handed large companies vast numbers of permits to emit greenhouse gasses, which they sold on at a profit.

Members made a voluntary but legally binding commitment to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets either by cutting emissions or by buying emissions permits sold by members.

He's also spoken out against a Democratic bill that passed the House in 2009 that would have limited emissions of greenhouse gases and created a market for pollution permits to be bought and sold.

In Mass. v. EPA, the Court based its decision partly on the view that an endangerment finding would not lead to «extreme measures,» such as an outright ban on motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.76 However, requiring tens of thousands of small sources to obtain PSD permits and 6.1 million to obtain Title V permits annually would be an extreme case.

On Jan. 1, California is scheduled to include gasoline, diesel and propane in its three - year - old, first - in - the - nation program that requires companies to buy carbon permits to cover their emissions of greenhouse gases.

What will be the impact on Australia if we introduce a an emissions permit system ahead of our trading partners and the worlds major sources of greenhouse gasses?

These include energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, planning for the impacts of climate change, environmental permitting, the threat to businesses and their critical infrastructure from rising sea levels and flooding and water regulations.

Springer, U. and M. Varilek, 2004: Estimating the price of tradable permits for greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 - 12.

Although the individual gas plants do have to obtain Clean Air Act permits, and their emissions are regulated, it is the cumulative impact of numerous facilities that has caused a problem for the Hallowiches.

This rapid increase in GHGs is because there is not one single federal regulation to limit the amount of GHGs from tar sands development, permitting tar sands companies to continue to expand production — and greenhouse gas emissions — in perpetuity.

RGGI is the nation's first state - level greenhouse gas cap - and - trade program, in which power plants must buy enough state - issued permits to cover emissions of carbon dioxide, which an international scientific consensus blames as the cause of man - made climate change.

Ironically, Trump's reputed interest in freeing - up permitting of energy infrastructure (e.g., gas pipelines and drilling on public lands, if indeed it can be achieved) may have the paradoxical effect of further reducing emissions.

He added that even if the EPA were forced to regulate greenhouse gases, it would target emissions from coal - fired power plants and then vehicles — which combined account for about half of the nation's global - warming pollution — before requiring smaller operations to apply for new emissions permits.

This article examines whether a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme has the potential to bring parties into conflict with the WTO provisions in dealing with the initial allocation of permits, non-compliance with emissions targets, emissions trading system enlargement, and trade measures against non-members of an emissions trading club, and relates the discussion to joint implementation with developing countries.

Market - based regulation - Regulatory approaches using price mechanisms (e.g., taxes and auctioned tradable permits), among other instruments, to reduce heat - trapping gas (greenhouse gas) emissions.

For those that aren't up to cruising altitude on this one: From January 1 the EU emission trading scheme includes airlines landing in Europe, requiring airlines to pay for permits for the greenhouse gas emissions created by their flights.

Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) A scheme set up to allow the trading of emissions permits between business and / or countries as part of a cap and trade approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

When a gas is in LTE then the absorption and emission is isotropic, but when Milne came up with the idea of LTE he wrote «This permits us to see in a general way why the state of local thermodynamic equilibrium in the interior of a star breaks down as we approach the surface.»

Starting in 2012, the agency implemented a statewide cap - and - trade system that imposed a ceiling on greenhouse - gas emissions across key sectors and then distributed a fixed number of tradable pollution permits to businesses.

The Firm represents clients who must develop strategies, whether in permitting or litigation, for dealing with CO2 or other greenhouse gas emissions or evaluating a project against the impacts of climate change.