Sentences with phrase «new emissions restrictions»
Mark Brownstein, vice president of climate and energy for the Environmental Defense Fund, said industry's complaints about the ICR are «ironic,» considering operators» contention last year that EPA needed more information before it could craft new emissions restrictions.
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, a leading climate skeptic who opposes restrictions on carbon pollution, argued that the administration could harm the U.S. economy by enacting new regulations particularly given the skyrocketing emissions of China and India, Kerry was quick with a challenge.
Much of the rhetoric pressing for a new agreement was framed as «sealing the deal» on a new internationally legally - binding restriction on greenhouse gas emissions building on the model represented by the dead - end 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
On Friday afternoon, three non-governmental organizations charged that a «secret Mexican text» was being drafted that could, following Japan's lead early in the week, end efforts to create new binding emissions restrictions to replace those that expire in 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol.
by Bonner Cohen The Heartland Institute California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation on September 8 that slaps new, more - stringent restrictions on emissions of manmade greenhouse gases.
The proposed restrictions, unveiled by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, would apply only to new fossil - fuel - burning power plants — limiting them to no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt generated.
The future aviation offsetting scheme will end up having little impact on the sector's soaring emissions unless restrictions are applied on what kind of offset credits airlines can purchase, a new study has found.
However, a new treaty may be adopted in the future that includes restrictions on shipping emissions.
The company is studying what to do with other older coal - fired units in light of the soot regulations, tightening restrictions on the disposal of coal ash and new limits on emissions of mercury and other toxics that are pending.
Andy Revkin's concern that battles over emissions restrictions are a losing political game in the Senate climate and clean energy debate, and a distraction from a more immediate need to initiate a «sustained energy quest» (DotEarth blog, New York Times,... Continue reading →
China, India, Brazil and South Africa pressed industrial nations to agree to new restrictions on fossil fuel emissions after current ones in the Kyoto Protocol expire in 2012.
When a country introduces stricter emissions rules, like when Japan decided to restrict formaldehyde emissions to levels close to zero, IKEA imposes the new restrictions on its global operations.