Sentences with phrase «new environmental regulations imposed»

You would have foreseen the strict, new environmental regulations imposed on industry and utilities.

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Obama has acknowledged the environmental concerns and asked his Energy Department to investigate, but his administration has been reluctant to impose new federal regulations.

The groups called for the Environmental Protection Agency to impose new regulations that would eliminate or sharply reduce the pollution.

As the owners of older coal plants consider whether to retire them or upgrade them to meet new and emerging environmental standards, the threat of greenhouse gas regulation will be an overlay of uncertainty and possible large expense, on top of the burdens imposed by other new and proposed environmental regulations and the competition from natural gas.

«Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal - fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits.

Those in favor of sweeping new regulations on our economy to address the issue of global warming are demanding that Congress quickly pass a «cap - and - trade» bill on greenhouse gas emissions or face a battery of new mandates to be developed and imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The state of Texas today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a federal appeals court in Washington DC, claiming four new regulations imposed by the EPA are based on the «thoroughly discredited» findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and are «factually flawed,» 1200 WOAI news reports.

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