Japan will push nuclear operators to draft plans to scrap a quarter of the country's 48 reactors, which are either too old or too costly to upgrade to
meet new standards imposed after the Fukushima disaster, the Nikkei reported on Friday.
Not exact matches
They know that they can trade off the «clean, green» reputation of
New Zealand food products without having to
meet the technical burdens that are
imposed on Australian companies by the CoOL Information
Standard applicable to products that are manufactured in Australia.
As pollutants coming from Asia increase, though, it becomes harder to
meet the stricter
standards that our
new laws
impose.
For a truly scary scenario, the Wall Street Journal ran a piece last week which asserts that
New York State education officials «are preparing new guidelines to impose strict regulations on the instruction that religious and other private schools provide, while empowering local school districts to shutter those schools if they fail to meet state standards.&raq
New York State education officials «are preparing
new guidelines to impose strict regulations on the instruction that religious and other private schools provide, while empowering local school districts to shutter those schools if they fail to meet state standards.&raq
new guidelines to
impose strict regulations on the instruction that religious and other private schools provide, while empowering local school districts to shutter those schools if they fail to
meet state
standards.»
As the owners of older coal plants consider whether to retire them or upgrade them to
meet new and emerging environmental
standards, the threat of greenhouse gas regulation will be an overlay of uncertainty and possible large expense, on top of the burdens
imposed by other
new and proposed environmental regulations and the competition from natural gas.
The cost of retrofitting existing plants to
meet CO2 emission
standards would likely be so high that
standards could be
imposed only on
new plants.
The
new program will consider 15 to 20 different vehicle weight classes and will
impose fines on automakers that fail to
meet the
new standards.