The UK is one of several European governments allowing energy industry representatives to help draw up the European Union's (EU)
new air pollution standards, a Greenpeace investigation has found.
Salem Station became a target in the late 1990s, when environmental, health and civic groups launched a campaign to force Massachusetts to clean up what they called the «Filthy Five» — a group of coal - and oil - fired power plants built before 1977 and grandfathered under the Clean Air Act from meeting
new air pollution standards.
In September, President Obama rejected
new air pollution standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Coal plants nationwide already only run around half of the time, nearly every Indian coal plant violates the country's
new air pollution standard, and India's Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has proposed closing nearly 50 GW of coal capacity by 2027.
Not exact matches
Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education,
air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of
new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high
standard of living
In the first federal effort to address serious
air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued
new air quality
standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.
The
new critique comes almost a week after it was revealed that the EPA had accused Global Companies, which operates a train terminal at the Port of Albany, of violating
air pollution standards regarding emissions from the dozens of oil trains that come through there each week.
New York City's Clean Heat Program was launched in 2010 to eliminate the use of residual diesel fuel oils — diesel - based fuels that remain after gasoline and distillate fuels have been removed from crude — in residential buildings, in order to help address city
air pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean Air Act standar
air pollution levels that historically failed to meet the minimum criteria for federal Clean
Air Act standar
Air Act
standards.
In addition to the
new engine, Mazda has also announced that it will begin electrifying its cars in 2019 but focus on markets it calls «regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce
air pollution» (read: markets with extremely strict emissions
standards).
The EPA argues that it need not undertake a
new endangerment finding to adopt the proposed
standard, because the agency already determined in December 2009 that «
air pollution» related to greenhouse gas emissions «may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare.»
On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean
Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air polluti
Air Task Force have argued that the
new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from
air polluti
air pollution.
Further, the Governor's Clean Energy
Standard to get 50 percent of
New York's electricity from renewables by 2030 is the most comprehensive and ambitious mandate in the state's history to fight climate change, reduce harmful
air pollution, and ensure a diverse and reliable energy supply at affordable prices.
Tough
new amendments to the Clean
Air Act followed in December 1970 and by April 1971, EPA announced the first air pollution standar
Air Act followed in December 1970 and by April 1971, EPA announced the first
air pollution standar
air pollution standards.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Clean
Air Act
standards to cut carbon
pollution from
new power pla...
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.
Specifically, the executive order directs the EPA to not only rewrite the Clean Power Plan, but to also rewrite the
new source performance
standards (NSPS) for coal - fired power plants that required state of the art
air pollution control technologies on any newly constructed coal plants.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the
New York State Public Service Commission's approval of
New York's Clean Energy
Standard, the most comprehensive and ambitious clean energy mandate in the state's history, to fight climate change, reduce harmful
air pollution, and ensure a diverse and reliable energy supply.
The agreement grew out of the
new fuel efficiency
standards passed by Congress in 2007, the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which precipitated global warming
pollution standards for vehicles under the Clean
Air Act, and global warming
pollution standards enacted in California and subsequently adopted by 13 other states and the District of Columbia.
Right now, we're working with a leading manufacturer to deliver a
new natural gas furnace that reduces emissions by 65 percent and is one of several models that now meet the state's ambitious
air pollution standards.
On the
air pollution score, that's meant excellent
new subway and bus lines, high emissions
standards (Beijing has lately moved to stringent Euro IV) and cleaner energy in and around Beijing.
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top
air pollution regulator Wednesday denounced the federal government's proposal to demand higher fuel efficiency in
new cars because a 24 - word passage written into the Bush administration's 417 - page plan would block California's aggressive efforts to enact its own emissions
standards.
The Danskammer Plant, located along the shore of the Hudson River in the town of Newburgh,
New York, has been responsible for more toxic
pollution than nearly all of the total 646 industrial sites in the state and numerous violations of federal
air quality
standards.