Sentences with phrase «new emissions rules»

Seen in the background on May 29, 2014, the Chalk Point Generating Station in Benedict, Maryland, is one of many coal - fired power plants that may be affected by new emissions rules.

Of course, getting individual plants and businesses to implement new emissions rules instead of cutting corners is another battle entirely.

Such comments reflect the passion surrounding a debate that almost certainly will be fueled by Obama's announcement of the new emissions rules.

In California, Nissan sells the Sentra CA, which meets that state's tough new emissions rules.

In July, when the EPA proposed new emissions rules for the drilling industry, it warned that without them there could be an unacceptably high risk of cancer for people living close to major facilities.

Not exact matches

While they acknowledged that methane emissions by the energy industry have decreased over the last few years, they still expressed a belief that it needed to be regulated, so they put together new rules that would force energy companies to decrease their methane emissions by 40 % to 55 % over the next 10 years.

A trade association representing General Motors (gm), Toyota (tm), Volkswagen (vlkpf) and nine other automakers on Tuesday asked new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to withdraw an Obama administration decision to lock in vehicle emission rules through 2025.

In addition, airlines are under increased pressure to reduce carbon emissions by new government mandates like the Environmental Protection Agency's new draft rules announced earlier this month.

But in a letter to Kerry and other State Department officials, Kristin Delkus, TransCanada's general counsel, pointed to new policies on carbon emissions in Canada, specifically a federal rule issued in May to cut emissions down to 70 percent of their 2005 levels within 15 years.

Global production grew only 2 %, as the Obama administration announced strict new rules limiting carbon emissions by coal plants.

But between 2013 and 2014, it cut emissions from those facilities in half — mostly by implementing the same measures required by the new rules — and then continued to cut into 2015.

Buried deep in federal regulations to restrict emissions in the coal - fired electricity sector, officials explain that the costs of those new rules is about $ 16 billion in today's terms.

Several other administration policies are likely to have a greater impact on global greenhouse - gas emissions, including the Environmental Protection Agency's rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants and its first - ever carbon limits on cars and light trucks.

Recently, FPA attended a public hearing on the EPA's proposed rules to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants from existing and new industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers, process heaters and solid waste incinerators

Justin Carinci Dolan Media Newswires Portland, OR — New diesel emissions rules could hit California contractors starting next year, and a national contractors group wants to stop those rules from sweeping the whole country.

Enck is in Syracuse to speak about climate change and the Obama administration's new rules on carbon emissions from power plants.

The head of the EPA said that he will sign a new rule overriding the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era effort to limit carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Tough new federal rules on power plant emissions would also place significant pressure on coal plants to close.

And tough new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency on power plant emissions will make closing Indian Point that much harder, if the state is to do so and still meet its other environmental goals.

Though in October 2009 Cameron pledged to introduce rules requiring new power stations to be as clean as a modern gas plant, he reneged on this in November 2010 by allowing new coal plants to pump almost double that level of carbon emissions,

While many on the left embraced the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules to reduce coal - burning power plant carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030, some red state Democrats couldn't put enough distance between themselves and the Obama administration.

Katko said he opposes applying the EPA's clean power rules to existing power plants, but wants to leave the door open to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new plants built in the future.

In December, he was among 10 Republicans who split with the party over a bill that would have blocked the first nationwide rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

Grimes has made it a point to draw a bold line between herself and the White House - most recently on the Obama administration's new Environmental Protection Agency rule that would drastically reduce carbon emission from power plants.

In releasing its draft rule in 2013 on carbon emissions from new power plants, EPA cited Kemper, along with three other proposed plants, as an example of the viability of CO2 capture technology.

Yet the analysis shows that even with higher gas prices, coal plants still fail to be economically competitive under the new greenhouse gas rule, which requires that fossil plants not exceed emission rates of 1,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

The new rules will be phased in starting in 2012 and require a roughly 5 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions, along with a boost in fuel efficiency every year thereafter.

In 1995, the first year of the new rules, sulfur emissions from power plants dropped by 19 % to 11.9 million tons, more than 3 million tons below allowable limits.

After the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled to delay implementation of Obama's Clean Power Plan on fighting emissions from power plants, new methane regulations could help Washington meet its pledges made in Paris.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case on whether lawsuits over climate ought to be permitted.

Critics of mercury rules often say that because mercury is an element that recirculates, new emissions have minimal impact compared with historic and natural ones.

Using executive authority, the President will issue a new rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants in the United States.

That's why the agency has proposed rules mandating dramatically reduced carbon emissions at all new fossil fuel - fired power plants.

Yesterday afternoon's announcement concerned three different sets of proposed power plant rules: language aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions in new, existing and modified power plants.

The EPA eventually ruled that the emissions from this power plant alone caused the violations of the SO2 national ambient air quality standards in the downwind state, New Jersey.

A separate EPA rule finalized last year aims to slash methane emissions from new facilities and is now under review in federal court.

EPA had also set out a separate finding in 2015 as part of the new source rule for power plants, specifically stating that the facilities contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, harming human health.

They have leveled blistering criticism about Obama's efforts to slow down the Keystone Pipeline; they don't like his new auto emissions standards; they are unhappy with new EPA mercury emissions rules for boilers; and they don't like the fact that permits for drilling and fracking on federal lands have slowed.

The new rule would cap municipal landfill emissions at a lower level than currently required.

President Barack Obama on 3rd August announced the EPA's final rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants.

With a rule addressing not - yet - built facilities followed by a rule for existing ones, the EPA's tack in writing new landfill emissions regulations follows a pattern similar to the Obama administration's proposed regulations for new and existing power plants.

However, the Environmental Protection Agency is concerned enough about the chemical that it is finalizing new national rules that will set limits on formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products.

Robert's Rules Association is an unincorporated membership association representing Robert's Rules of Order April 4, 2017: Review of the Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric

Honda is just one of the many automakers turning to electric vehicles to help them meet stringent new U.S. fuel economy and emissions rules.

Neutered two years ago from the collapse of new - vehicle sales amid a foundering economy, auto makers dropped their historically combative stance over stricter rules and gave over to an historic hike in CAFE in return for a single national tailpipe emissions standard.

«Mission Accomplished» for the US reducing carbon emissions ~ 80 % by 2050 took another hit as a dozen states have sued over the new coal rules.

Various Updates In a move that environmental campaigners had sought for years (as had I), the Environmental Protection Agency has issued final rules that could substantially cut emissions of heat - trapping methane, smog - forming volatile organic compounds and toxic air pollutants such as benzene from new, rebuilt or modified oil and gas wells and other infrastructure and operations.

Suppose that electric utilities, in order to meet the new rules, decide to close some existing power plants and invest in new, lower - emission capacity.

Yesterday, six Senate Republicans joined with most of the Democrats to defeat a bill that would have blocked new federal rules limiting coal plants» mercury pollution and toxic emissions.

New rules for reporting methane (and carbon dioxide) emissions that have kicked in for some facilities this year will slowly raise pressure on industry to stanch such leaks.