Sentences with phrase «implement emissions controls»

As a result, the government has not actively designed or implemented an emissions control strategy.

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But there has been a hitch: Despite the fact that DERA was supposed to be fully implemented by 2010, each year it has been delayed in the state's secret budget negotiations, allowing vehicles with antiquated emission controls used by the state and its contractors to continue to pollute our air and threaten the health of our communities.

While a bill to actually implement a cap - and - trade system eluded state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended in March, they did direct the state Department of Environmental Quality to study «a market - based approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.»

PNNL's model scenario limits the heat - trapping effect of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to levels only 65 percent of what they would reach if no future emissions controls are implemented.

To achieve these targets, the plan calls for controlling emissions from energy - intensive industries like power and steel, building a unified national carbon emissions trading market, implementing emissions reporting and verification for key industries, and establishing a green finance system, among other measures.

From a hardware standpoint, automakers have implemented highly sophisticated hardware to meet ever - stricter fuel economy and emissions regulations, but the one area they can't directly control is fuel quality.

They failed to reach agreement because of the horrific costs of implementing greenhouse gas emissions control measures as envisaged in the Kyoto Protocol.

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

Examining the likelihood that longer - term reform of the EU ETS will be agreed and implemented; whether the ICAO is capable of delivering a global system to control aviation emissions; and the challenges and opportunities facing carbon market participants.

«The «temperature tracking» was implemented through a simple proportional control equation, of the form E (t) = pk (deltaT ^ DATA (t)-- delta T (t)-RRB- where E (t) are CO ₂ emissions, and deltaT ^ DATA (t)-- delta T (t) is the error between prescribed and simulated temperature change at a specific time, t.

China, for example, is far likelier to be successful at actually implementing effective emission controls, among other reasons as it's a totalitarian regime, should it decide to.

Despite stringent emission controls implemented by the Chinese government, the frequency of Beijing winter severe haze events has been increasing in recent years.

In May 2016, as part of the Government's role in implementing the AQMS, the Government published, non-regulatory pollution control instruments to reduce emissions from the iron and steel, and aluminum industries.

A study by the Natural Resources Defense Council does not examine any specific legislation, but instead cites extensive research to develop an alternative business - as - usual economic and climate forecast to draw attention to the consequences of failure to implement comprehensive GHG emissions control policies.

Instead of serving up an all - encompassing formal treaty that requires ratification of a certain mix of countries to take effect under international law, an agreement's legal force on emissions could stem from domestic laws countries pass to implement the emission - control efforts they pledge.

The Government has yet to act to effectively control HFC emissions or to implement serious domestic policies or legislation to reduce their use.

Third, experience with efforts to limit SO2 emissions indicates that the cap and trade approach has greatly reduced the costs of implementing control measures.

(b) «Formulate, implement, publish and regularly update national and, where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to mitigate climate change by addressing anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, and measures to facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change;» (c) «Promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes that control, reduce or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases...»

Some of the emission reduction technologies implemented by industry include installation of vapor recovery units and various types of automated lift systems to control well venting, development of techniques for reduced emission completions, increased use of electric / solar driven pumps and low - bleed pneumatic controllers.

To meet this goal, plant owners can implement one of or a combination of three main strategies: use lower sulfur coal in their boilers, retire plants without emissions controls, or install emissions control equipment — primarily flue gas desulfurization (FGD) scrubbers.

This promoted aggressive programs and projects that have helped the Germans become leaders in progress towards controlling greenhouse gas emissions and implementing renewable energies and which have given their leader, Angela Merkel, the nickname «Klimakanzlerin «(Climate Chancellor).

The EPA's Cross-State Air Pollution Rule would have pushed more power plants to implement technologies like these to control their emissions.

The S&T budget is critical to developing and implementing standards to control their harmful emissions, as well as evaluating new control technologies.