Sentences with phrase «industry for air pollution»

None of the money for the environmental protection funding increase will come from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the nine - state coalition that charges industry for air pollution, according to administration officials.

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I know you're against clean air and water and would prefer to have industry control all that stuff, oh wait you can go to Delhi India for all the best in air pollution.

Costs for the state's air pollution control system, which under federal law must be paid for by polluting industries, keep sinking under a rising tide of red ink that taxpayers keep bailing out.

And so does setting ambitious goals: Early on, I doubted industry could meet some of the aggressive targets that EPA set for reducing air pollution, but I ultimately saw these goals spur innovation and creative solutions that led to setting even higher standards.

As it has for more than a century, air pollution in America largely arises from power plants, industries, vehicles and other sources of fuel burning.

She and a colleague at the NRDC wrote a book, Respirable Particles, in 1979, which warned that the government's air pollution standards for American cities and industries were failing to curb the very smallest particles.

«I feel no confidence that this industry is going to embrace carbon dioxide reduction technology when they've been extremely reluctant to adopt technology that's been around for years and years to scrub other pollutants,» Peridas said, referring to grandfathering exemptions under the Clean Air Act addressing sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury pollution.

Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing air that's full of pollutants that can cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.

An environmental engineer and applied meteorologist for more than 30 years, Dr. Umenhofer has served as an air - and water - quality consultant to industry and government, with expertise in pollution control and local / federal environmental policy development.

Countering the market effect of rebounding coal use in power and industry, the government has been implementing strong policies to substitute natural gas and electricity for coal use, mainly to address the air pollution problem.

«This rollback will mean more asthma and other breathing disorders associated with air pollution, more contamination of water supplies by residue from mining fossil fuels and more money wasted on infrastructure for a dying energy industry,» Francis said.

Oil and gas standards: In April 2012, U.S. EPA finalized air pollution standards for the oil and gas industry that would capture up to 95 % of volatile organic compounds from new hydraulically fractured wells each year and in the process also reduce methane emissions.

Unless, that is, you ask industry groups and their friends in Congress, who are already parroting the same talking points they bring out every time a new pollution control appears — despite the fact that the Clean Air Act turns out to be a bargain for America over and over again.

«Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy» creates a framework for calculating the air pollution externalities of industries, called «gross external damages» (GED), and estimates that coal creates roughly $ 53 billion in damages a year - a cost that is over twice as high as the market price of the electricity.

«While setting methane standards for the first time is an important step, failing to immediately regulate existing oil and gas equipment nationwide misses 90 percent of the methane pollution from the industry,» said Conrad Schneider, advocacy director for the Clean Air Task Force, a Boston - based environmental group.

A new Food and Water Watch report, How Fracking Supports the Plastic Industry, calls attention to the dark side of those plans, warning of air and water pollution and the risk to people's health, especially for those taking jobs in the plastics iIndustry, calls attention to the dark side of those plans, warning of air and water pollution and the risk to people's health, especially for those taking jobs in the plastics industryindustry.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

A clear articulation of the EPA's new mission came last year in a meeting of coal - industry leaders with Mandy Gunasekara, deputy assistant administrator for air pollution.

This session we saw legislation passed to bolster protections for mineral and royalty owners, increase fees for stationary sources of air pollution, enforce the state's call - before - you - dig program and ensure safe and orderly processing of certain kinds of naturally occurring radioactive waste — all supported by our industry.

After all, the government isn't «deliberately raising the cost of a good» — it is merely making the industries that produce that good accountable for the cost of the negative externalities (air pollution, exacerbation of climate change, et al) their good creates.

They estimate air pollution damages for each industry in the USA by quantifying the damages caused by air pollution, and multiplying those damages by the emissions per industry, which they call «gross external damages» (GED).

CFC industry companies hired the world's largest public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton, who organized a month - long U.S. speaking tour in 1975 for noted British scientist Richard Scorer, a former editor of the International Journal of Air Pollution and author of several books on pollution.

PM Turnbull has simply and quite dishonestly used this event to further the interests of the coal industry that is one of the main drivers of climate change and ocean acidification and is responsible for millions of deaths around the world every year from its air pollution.

For decades, Morgan Lewis has represented and counseled companies and industry associations on regulations, litigation, and other issues related to the federal Clean Air Act and state air pollution control statutAir Act and state air pollution control statutair pollution control statutes.

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