Sentences with phrase «of air pollution regulations»

On its face, the EPA's proposal to balance the costs and benefits of air pollution regulations makes a lot of sense.

Implementation of air pollution regulations, however, enabled a large - scale decline in atmospheric mercury levels during the 1980s.

Perhaps one of the factors in the cooling that occurred from the 1930s to the 1970s was this aerosol pollution, counteracting the expected warming from CO2 emissions, and the warming since the 1970s is a direct result of air pollution regulations that have decreased emissions of all kinds of particulates.

Canada continues to implement its nation - wide Air Quality Management System to reduce emissions of air pollutants from industrial sources, as well as a suite of air pollution regulations for the transportation sector that reduce emissions of key SLCPs.

Canada is taking action through a range of air pollution regulations that will reduce emissions of SLCPs across key emitting sectors throughout the country.

To ensure the protection of human health, the American Lung Association supports the rigorous enforcement of air pollution regulations, and the strengthening of air quality standards and abatement requirements.

Not exact matches

We think the basis of regulation of greenhouse gases and air pollution should be the polluter pay principle, and this will be the basis of the plans we bring forward.

Greens did voice concerns about Mr Livingstone's record on road building, regulation of the financial sector and air pollution, however.

DEC then called on the EPA to strengthen its air pollution regulation of trucks.

Scaling back our energy consumption significantly, whether voluntarily or as a result of laws and regulations, would go a long way toward achieving our pollution reduction and air and water quality goals

Air pollution regulations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are estimated to save thousands of lives annually.

«The main goal of our project was to find out how effective regulations of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation of how cars that meet future emissions standards will lead to reductions in air pollution.»

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

The analysis — «a determination of whether emissions cause or contribute to air pollution which may... endanger public health,» as EPA describes it — would set the stage for an eventual new regulation limiting airplanes» emissions.

«Continuing to identify subgroups that are most susceptible to the effects of air pollution is critically important for setting pollution standards and regulations so that those who are most vulnerable can be protected,» said Hart.

The back - and - forth debate on health is critical to the Clean Power Plan because the provision of the Clean Air Act the Obama administration is invoking, Section 111 (d), according to EPA's website, «requires EPA to develop regulations for categories of sources which cause or significantly contribute to air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 1Air Act the Obama administration is invoking, Section 111 (d), according to EPA's website, «requires EPA to develop regulations for categories of sources which cause or significantly contribute to air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 1air pollution which may endanger public health or welfare» (ClimateWire, Apr. 10).

U.S. Supreme Court justices offered President Barack Obama's administration some encouragement on Tuesday as they weighed the lawfulness of a federal regulation limiting air pollution that crosses state lines, mostly emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Republicans on House science committee want independent review of decades - old studies underpinning air pollution regulations

In fact, a report in Science last year showed that most of the planet's surface is brightening, attributable to air - pollution regulation throughout most of the industrialized world.

International and federal regulations have attempted to reduce the amount of air pollution generated by cruise ships, but there's still work to be done.

The American Lung Association supports strict enforcement of power plant air pollution regulations to ensure continuous compliance and the strengthening of abatement requirements to ensure the protection of human health.

The American Lung Association calls for effective enforcement of existing laws and regulations governing the combustion of wood and other biomass sources, as well as the expanded regulation of air pollution emissions from these sources.

And the public wants regulation: In February, one bipartisan poll found that 69 percent of voters support stricter limits on air pollution.

A recent survey of electric utility leaders finds that Trump administration efforts to promote coal energy and roll back air pollution regulations have had little impact on their long - range plans.

I would need clarification of what you mean by strong, since for the regulations except for the just started GHR, people have been sent to jail, and audits of the receptive media show that pollution is down as measured in air, water, and groundwater that were regulated under the current regulations.

We're working for stronger regulation of both greenhouse pollution from automobiles through the Clean Air Act and higher fuel economy standards pursuant to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, two partially overlapping and complimentary statutory schemes.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

Beijing's new Air Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations will mean stricter punishments for those who break the rules designed to quash the hazardous levels of pollution that have beset China's capital city.

The bill would amend the Clean Air Act to exclude regulation of carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride pollution.

The 2015 Effluent Limitation Guidelines (ELGs), which represents the first update to these regulations since 1982, nearly eliminates dumping of ash - contaminated wastewater, and for the first time, limits the discharge of toxic heavy metals that come from removing toxics from the air pollution stream and trapping them in sludge as part of the wastewater stream.

Scores of old, inefficient coal - fired power plants were already expected to close as a result of other air pollution regulations — with gas fired plants popping up in their place.

The American coal industry says Mr. Obama is waging a «war on coal» in response to his proposed regulation of air pollution and surface mining in mountain areas.

A cursory list might include: pollution of air, water and soil from billions of tons of toxic waste; declining biological and cultural diversity from the harvesting of natural resources; regulations that merely limit the poisoning of people and the environment; production and use of materials so dangerous they will require constant, costly vigilance from future generations; prosperity measured by activity not legacy.

That means, just as our colleagues argued in Climate Pragmatism, that there are numerous opportunities to cost - effectively tackle these «no regrets» pollutants «through traditional air pollution regulations, the spread of best practices, and multilateral cooperation.»

With the coming introduction of cleaner Tier 3 fuels for Utah's gas market and tightening of regulations on sources of pollutants that come from paint strippers and other solvents, the state is trying to tackle its air pollution problem on many fronts.

In 2012, even as most of our leaders dodged or denied the climate change issue, we were busy tackling it from many angles — reducing carbon emissions by securing national air pollution regulations that clean up or phase out dirty plants and then defending these innovations in court when they are attacked by the polluters.

Regulations to address air pollution, boost the share of renewables and ensure industry adopted more efficient practices were also contributing factors, he added.

54 % of coal is cashflow negative today increasing to 97 % by 2030 — making units reliant on lobbying to secure capacity market payments (which the European Commission wants to prohibit by 2025) and avoid air pollution regulations.

However, we find that falling renewable energy costs, air pollution regulations and rising carbon prices will continue to undermine the economics of coal power in the EU, potentially making generation assets unusable by 2030.

This result contradicts the basis for all air pollution regulation worldwide, none of which considers controlling local CO2 based on its local health impact.

The Trump administration is waging war on the laws meant to protect Americans from air pollution, arguing that rolling back regulations on coal - fired power plants, cars and trucks, and other sources of fossil fuel emissions is necessary to ensure a healthy economy.

To get around the local pollution problems and to adhere to the new air quality regulations, the industry started building tall stacks to disperse the pollution instead of reducing it.

Rhone Resch, president and chief executive of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the rule will have an enormous impact because it is so different from previous air - quality regulations in which power plants installed pollution controls to curb the emissions coming out of their stacks.

Koch is co-owned by David Koch, founder of Americans for Prosperity, a group aligned with the Tea Party movement, which opposes new air pollution regulations.

The study upends more than half a century of research that assumed outdoor air pollution in cities was to blame for higher asthma rates — a hypothesis repeatedly used by EPA regulators to justify the agency's regulations.

Now, they're hoping to force the agency to update its pollution regulation according to the «best available science» as the law of the Clean Air Act demands.

He implemented historic improvements in fuel - efficiency standards for automobiles, and instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward on the regulation of global - warming pollution under the Clean Air Act.

Air pollution emissions (especially SO2 and CO2) are under - regulated, and increased environmental regulation of these pollutants would benefit the US economy (not to mention public health, both nationally and internationally).

He's loosened a litany of regulations to allow more air and water and carbon pollution.

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.