Sentences with phrase «new air pollution limits»

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

The same is true when new air pollution limits take effect.

Not exact matches

The new research estimates the extent to which smog, under air - pollution policies in place before the Clean Power Plan, would limit production in 2020 of four major crops: corn, cotton, potatoes and soybeans.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

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.

Earthjustice's landmark court victory, which put in motion strict new limits on toxic air pollution from coal - fired power plants, drives the retirement of many dirty plants and a shift to cleaner power.

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

Litigating to secure stronger and / or new limits on climate and conventional air pollution for cars, trucks, ships, aircraft and non-road engines.

When the Clean Air Act was written in 1970, the bill's author, Edmund Muskie, had exempted existing power plants from the new pollution limits — he figured the older plants would get retired soon anyway.

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.

88 % of Democrats, 85 % of Independents, and 58 % of Republicans oppose Congress stopping the EPA from enacting new limits on air pollution from electric power plants.