Sentences with phrase «new emission laws»

The amount of time spent upgrading the small - block for new emission laws every decade might also be the top versus all other automotive engine development programs.

Indeed, Obama is combining the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standard with California's new emissions law — and the result is great news: cars will be 30 percent more efficient by 2016, as all cars sold then must get 42 miles per gallon.

Not exact matches

Greenpeace has targeted Volkswagen with a new website and set of spoof ads that send up the automaker's award - winning, Force - inspired Super Bowl ad, accusing the company of opposing key environmental laws in Europe relating to CO2 emissions.

California dairy farmers — from the nation's leading agricultural state — are facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030.

Dairy farmers in California are already facing pressure to lower methane emissions under the state's ambitious new greenhouse gas reduction laws, which include methane emission reduction targets of 40 % below 2013 levels by 2030.

The bill mandates in law that New York fully transition to clean energy by 2050 by tasking state agencies with creating plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not just in our power plants, but in our cars and buildings too.

The Environmental Advocates of New York on Friday called on the state's elected leaders to use $ 117 million in settlement money from Volkswagen to implement a decade - old law aimed at reducing diesel emissions in New York.

Gennaro praised Bloomberg's PlaNYC, a master plan for building an environmentally sustainable New York which, like Local Law 55, lays out initiatives for cutting the city's greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent by 2030.

As the governor conferred with his top staff members, federal law enforcement authorities say his then - executive deputy secretary, Joseph Percoco, and a former longtime friend and adviser, Todd Howe, were secretly exploiting their political muscle in a bribery scheme that would help the energy company, Competitive Power Ventures, purchase pollution «emission reduction credits» from New York state.

The new climate law set targets for curbing greenhouse gas emissions and ramping up clean energy production.

In Belgium, a group of citizens has started legal action against the government for failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and a law student in New Zealand is mounting a similar challenge against her government.

Over the past year, governments have been making pledges about how they will cut emissions, and one of the main outcomes from Paris will be a new agreement that codifies all those national efforts into international law.

There's no realistic possibility of passing new laws to curb US greenhouse gas emissions — Republican control of the House of Representatives will see to that.

Passing new laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions remains unlikely, with the House of Representatives still controlled by a Republican majority dominated by climate change sceptics.

One of those new laws mandates that by 2003 older power plants must reduce their emissions of nitrogen oxide (by 50 %) and sulfur dioxide (by 25 %).

But what about tomorrow, when new mobility requirements and tougher emissions laws redefine the pleasure of driving and reassess the meaningfulness of performance?

They highlighted a Volkswagen Golf 1.6 and a Citroen C4 XS, the French car expels 13 grams less in CO2 emissions, but when the new tax laws are introduced, the Citroen will cost almost AU$ 200 less to register.

As with all these trucks, it has been fitted with new exhaust equipment to meet stricter emissions laws.

One of those new laws mandates that by 2003 older power plants must reduce their emissions of nitrogen oxide (by 50 %) and sulfur dioxide (by 25 %).

A new law according to this petition will (an optimistic wording) enforce the declaration of the co2 emission of the car in t / 10.000 km.

They spent the holidays figuring that, if the new CAFÉ standards are adopted at a steady rate, the emissions produced every year from 2011 to 2016 under the federal law would be higher than those allowed by the California law.

-- # 400m ($ 530m) for electric vehicle charging infrastructure — # 100m ($ 132m) for a plug - in car grant — # 40m ($ 53m) for charging research & development — Clarifications to the law so drivers will not face taxes if charging at work — 1/3 off rail fares for 4.5 million people aged between 26 - 30 — 1 % increase in company car tax for diesel vehicles — An increase in taxes on new cars that do not meet the latest EU6 emissions band

The new law, which passed the Senate unanimously, pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from business as usual by 2020 and slash emissions in half by 2050 from 2000 levels.

With its editorial, The Case for a Carbon Tax, the New York Times joins the growing community of opinion leaders, policy experts and, yes, elected officials who not only recognize the power of carbon taxes to quickly and equitably reduce emissions but also sense the emergence of a political critical mass that can enact fees into law.

Businesses and congressmen who dislike the idea of legislating to control emissions may now decide that a new law, over which they can have some influence, would be better than regulation through an old one.

In 2008, the Washington State Legislature adopted new laws creating a schedule for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing clean energy sector jobs.

In practical terms, the law requires the government to transition from non-renewable to renewable energy; to develop new economic indicators that will assess the ecological impact of all economic activity; to carry out ecological audits of all private and state companies; to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; to develop policies of food and renewable energy sovereignty; to research and invest resources in energy efficiency, ecological practices, and organic agriculture; and to require all companies and individuals to be accountable for environmental contamination with a duty to restore damaged environments.

Today the European Parliament and the Council have signed into law the new National Emissions Ceilings (NEC) Directive, based on a Commission proposal that sets stricter limits on the five main...

Fifth, implementing emission reduction mandates and targets under each New England state's global warming solutions laws will likely cause economy - wide natural gas use to decrease by 20 percent by 2030, despite recent policies and trends that incentivize fuel - switching to natural gas.

Existing laws such as renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency resource standards, long - term requirements for additional hydropower and wind power, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caps will require a significant reduction in natural gas - fired generation throughout New England.

Last month, for instance, scholars from the law schools of Columbia University, New York University and the University of California, Los Angeles, released a report that suggested there is a provision in the Clean Air Act that would allow the E.P.A. to require states to reduce emissions that endangered other countries if such countries provided reciprocal protections to the United States.

AB 32, California's nation - leading greenhouse gas emissions reductions law, and the state's Renewable Energy Standard (RES), requiring state utilities to obtain one - third of their power from renewable sources by 2020, will not only drive the growth of renewables capacity, Hertel said, but also necessitate new natural gas - burning power plants or result in serious power supply problems.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

The Finnish parliament today approved after voting a new climate bill that commits to 80 % emissions reductions by 2050, in one of the most ambitious climate laws passed to date across Europe.

To back up its pledges, Mexico included in its formal submission the following instruments: a national strategy on climate change, carbon tax, national emissions and emissions reductions registry, energy reform laws and regulations, and on - going process for new set of standards and regulations.

Eighty - four percent of participants in the study conducted by New York University School of Law agreed that greenhouse gas emissions pose a significant risk to U.S. and global economies.

Outside of New York and Illinois, which passed laws subsidizing ailing nuclear facilities in 2016, Connecticut's governor last year signed a bill allowing Dominion's Millstone plant to participate in its clean energy procurement process, and New Jersey's lawmakers are poised to vote on a zero - emission credit (ZEC) program today, Korsnick said.

The company cites Washington state law prohibiting new coal plants whose emissions would exceed those of a natural gas plant.

Its rivers and skies are heavily tainted, its environmental laws remain weak, its fixation on economic growth largely dismisses ecology, its emissions are still high, and its new promises are little different from business as usual.

New work underway at WRI will help states accomplish this by examining available technologies and best practices to reduce methane emissions, as well as proposing key requirements that should be part of any new laws or standarNew work underway at WRI will help states accomplish this by examining available technologies and best practices to reduce methane emissions, as well as proposing key requirements that should be part of any new laws or standarnew laws or standards.

In the nation's largest milk - producing state, the new law aims to reduce methane emissions from dairies and livestock operations to 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030, McCarthy said.

The day the law was signed, the E.P.A. administrator rejected the unanimous recommendation of his staff and denied California a waiver needed to regulate vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases in the state, saying the new law's approach was preferable and climate change required global, not regional, solutions.

• Develops new laws to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen loss and damage from climate change — laws that build on our successful foundation of environmental law and do not roll it back.

«If we can reduce emissions of methane, we can really help to slow global warming,» said Ryan McCarthy, a science adviser for the California Air Resources Board, which is drawing up rules to implement the new law.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni on July 25 in Manhattan ruled that federal law does not preempt the state and its Public Service Commission (PSC) from using a zero - emissions credit (ZEC) program designed to support cleaner energy options in New York.

With this article, the first of a new series on environmental shipping law, we consider the amended Regulation 20165 / 757 which imposes new monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) obligations of emissions for voyages within the European Union territory... read more

Publications include Brookers DSL Environmental Handbook, CCH Global Climate Change Law Guide and «Forestry in the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme: Design and Prospects for Success», Carbon and Climate Law Review (Vol 3, 2008).

«Victorious Lawyer in Climate Case Still Critical of Plaintiffs» Strategy»: Lawrence Hurley of Greenwire has an article (via The New York Times) that begins, «The top government lawyer who successfully argued a major climate case before the Supreme Court this year has criticized his erstwhile opponents for claiming states should be able to sue polluters over greenhouse gas emissions under federal common law.»