Sentences with phrase «limit air pollution emissions»

«Efforts should be made to limit air pollution emissions, with more emphasis on moving towards cleaner cities with fewer cars and more efficient public transport.»

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Reducing certain kinds of air pollution could limit the rise of ocean waters and buy time to address CO2 emissions.

The analysis — «a determination of whether emissions cause or contribute to air pollution which may... endanger public health,» as EPA describes it — would set the stage for an eventual new regulation limiting airplanes» emissions.

U.S. Supreme Court justices offered President Barack Obama's administration some encouragement on Tuesday as they weighed the lawfulness of a federal regulation limiting air pollution that crosses state lines, mostly emissions from coal - fired power plants.

In August, the EPA issued rules to limit air pollution by volatile organic compounds from «fracking» which should, as a by - product, also reduce emissions of methane.

A speed limit also would cut back on air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions and underwater noise, which can harm whales.

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

The challengers next claim is that EPA is completely barred from limiting power plants» dangerous carbon pollution because EPA has already used another part of the law — Section 112 — to curb the same plants» emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

According to the IPCC, the costs of reducing emissions to limit warming to below 2C are modest, even before taking into account co-benefits such as energy - security benefits and health improvement due to reduced air pollution.

Operators of these types of boilers will have three years to reduce toxic air pollution and meet new emissions limits.

This would help increase energy security and also limit air pollution and CO2 emissions in a cost - effective way.

Simply put, limiting sulphur oxides emissions from ships reduces air pollution and results in a cleaner environment.

For the short term, carbon pricing and more stringent pollution control regulations may be used to reduce emissions, minimise local air pollution, and limit and ultimately phase out generation from subcritical coal - fired power stations.

As for carbon emissions, Monday's ruling concerns a provision of the Clean Air Act that is entirely separate from the one that underlies the Clean Power Plan to limit greenhouse gas pollution.

That means when it comes to clouds anthropogenic forcing is not limited to GHG emissions, but also includes [other forms of] air pollution.

Campaigners have welcomed the EU's adoption of new air pollution limits that could significantly reduce toxic emissions from Europe's dirtiest power plants.

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Section 115 authorizes EPA to require states to limit emissions of «any air pollutant» that may «cause or contribute to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare in a foreign country.»

In a Wall Street Journal op - ed attacking EPA's proposal to limit toxic air pollution from coal - and oil - fired power plants, Willie Soon and Paul Driessen obscure the challenges posed by U.S. mercury emissions, which they say pose «minuscule risks.»