Sentences with phrase «imposed new federal standards»

Within six months of his taking office, both houses of Congress had passed bills that imposed new federal standards for the states» accountability efforts.

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The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

contain measures that would ramp up federal oversight of farms and food processors, granting new inspection powers to the Food and Drug Administration, imposing agricultural standards for food crops, and beefing up record - keeping requirements that would help regulators trace a tainted food product to its source.

A proposed upgrade to the U.S. standard covering head restraints would impose new geometric requirements and bring federal mandates in line with RCAR ratings for a good design (see diagram).

Then federal standards were imposed, and inventions and new business models were devised; now smog and acid rain are way down in the United States and declining in much of the rest of the world.

The EPA (1) does not have the authority to regulate existing power plants, (2) must finalize efforts with new plants before doing so, (3) has no authority over states» energy generation, (4) imposes too - costly, inadequately flexible, and physically impossible standards, and (5) exceeds EPA the Federal Power Act authority, they argued.