Sentences with phrase «own air pollution rules»

Research organizations are critical, Sheehan said, because their work confirms whether national acid rain and air pollution rules are working.

The 112th Congress made a record - breaking 191 votes to kill air pollution rules, protect Big Oil subsidies, and block efforts to fight climate change, earning it this dubious distinction:

Old coal and nuclear plants are closing due to age and tightening air pollution rules.

Stricter air pollution rules and higher carbon prices are set to push even more plants into unprofitability, according to the analysts Carbon Tracker, with 97 % of the plants losing money by 2030.

According to the 2010 report, «Impact of EPA Rules on Power Markets,» by Credit Suisse, tougher federal air pollution rules that will be coming in the next few years could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal - burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls.

In a USB drive branded with the logo of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), a folder labeled «Easterly» contains a presentation titled «Easterly ALEC presentation 11 28 12» explaining current EPA air pollution rules and how Tom Easterly has worked to obstruct them.

From this year, plants face tightening air pollution rules under the

There are two EPA rules that are putting pressure on older coal generation, the cross-state air pollution rule, which is currently on stay until further ruling, and the MATS rule, which regulates mercury and other heavy metals and is scheduled to go into effect in April 2015.

From this year, plants face tightening air pollution rules under the EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), though various exemptions and transitional arrangements are in play.

Brad Plumer: Coal would take the biggest hit under this climate rule — as well as all the other air pollution rules EPA has put out.

And then, of course, there's this (via Ceres): «This poll found that support for the EPA air pollution rules extends across the political spectrum.

It was announced on September 12, 2011 that Texas based coal plant Monticello Units 1 and 2 would be idled in January 2012 if Energy Future Holdings, owner of Luminant, failed in its legal challenge to pending federal air pollution rules.

International Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny detained in Moscow, The Guardian EU's top court says Poland breached air pollution rules, Reuters

«U.S. appeals court upholds hazardous air pollution rule»: Lawrence Hurley has this report on the per curiam ruling that the majority on a partially divided three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued today.

Not exact matches

At some point in the next five to ten years the Supreme Court is likely to rule that pollution of our children's minds is as dangerous as pollution of the air, land and water.

Your ruling class, sensing discontent, blames it on air and water pollution or burning the rain forest.

The government dictates all kinds of things including speed limits, rules against pollution of your water, air and food.

Client Earth previously won a case against Government in the Supreme Court last year, which ruled that it must come up with plans to combat air pollution «as soon as possible».

Connecticut's legal conflicts with the federal government over air quality issues escalated again last weekwhen the state joined New York in a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to enforce ozone pollution rules.

Despite debate over how many «deaths» air pollution causes, it is clear bad air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on reducing it must be resisted

According to an analysis by Scientific American and legal scholars, federal agencies have suspended enforcement of at least 39 rules from the administration of Pres. Barack Obama affecting issues ranging from air pollution to airlines» handling of wheelchairs.

Another measure, the federal Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, will require still more expensive controls on coal plants in the Midwest and South to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that travel across state lines, creating ozone and fine particle pollution downwind.

SINGAPORE (Reuters)- Indonesia's complex rules on land use and the difficulty in prosecuting foreign businesses mean Singapore has its work cut out bringing companies to book under its new cross-border air pollution law.

He also said that, despite lawsuits he'd filed to prevent EPA from enforcing lead pollution rules, he believed EPA had a role in regulating air and water quality, especially across state lines.

The case was referred to the European Court of Justice, which ruled in 2014 that national courts can and should ensure that governments act to get air pollution below legal limits «as soon as possible».

In August, the EPA issued rules to limit air pollution by volatile organic compounds from «fracking» which should, as a by - product, also reduce emissions of methane.

But even though four decades of Clean Air Act programs have already done a lot to improve our health, environment leaders and public health advocates alike would like to see lawmakers put in place even more stringent rules to reduce pollution of all kinds and put our economy on a cleaner, greener path overall.

At Politico's 2011 Energy Forum, Holmstead was confronted over his obstruction of clean air rules and the human lives lost resulting from his decisions to delay effective mercury pollution controls at U.S. power plants:

For example, in 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air pollution, based on evidence that such emissions were changing Earth's climate.

But the courts haven't always struck down EPA emissions trading programs — such as the trading program for nitrogen oxides — and when they have disqualified programs, it was either because agencies failed to follow proper procedure (as was the case with a Bush - era mercury rule that eased requirements on power plants) or because specific statutory goals were not followed (as was the case in the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which wouldn't have necessarily reduced all interstate pollutirule that eased requirements on power plants) or because specific statutory goals were not followed (as was the case in the Clean Air Interstate Rule, which wouldn't have necessarily reduced all interstate pollutiRule, which wouldn't have necessarily reduced all interstate pollution).

We may not have a concrete answer to this question, but it could just be that more and more people are living in large, busy cities, where noise and air pollution, high stress, business, and lack of nature are the rule rather than the exception.

After I wrote about the need for methane rules in December, I was contacted by Jonathan Banks of Clean Air Task Force, an environmental organization that has been using infrared videos to help make the case for pollution rules.

Several of Shell's ships grossly exceed EPA requirements to limit air pollution, so Shell asks that the rules be changed for them.

In a way, it makes sense that GOP politicians would be so cavalier about dismantling those Clean Air Act rules that would require better pollution controls on coal plants — after all, as a group largely comprised of affluent white men, they've probably never had to live next door to one.

They want to block or overturn rules that allow companies to spew ginormous amounts of toxic pollution into the air.

The report, «Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas,» builds an economic case for adopting practices and technologies that limit chances of water or air pollution and produce adequate transparency to gain public confidence.

Apparently Shell's Arctic drilling ships aren't nearly clean enough to meet EPA standards for air pollution, so rather than using cleaner ships Shell has asked the EPA to bend the rules.

To be sure, like other air pollution control rules, it requires somewhat more than the marketplace will deliver on its own.

Next week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to finalize new rules to reduce mercury and other toxic air emissions that will affect dozens of antiquated power plants currently operating without pollution controls.

On the UK side of the pond, the high court has ruled that the governments plans on air pollution have been inadequate and have not met the requirements of the Supreme Court ruling of 2015.

The Boiler MACT rules, which are required by the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, will only target the most significant sources of toxic air pollutiAir Act amendments of 1990, will only target the most significant sources of toxic air pollutiair pollution.

The U.S. Environment Protection Agency finalized the Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rule today to protect people from exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers.

In 2005, George W. Bush's EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule, aimed at achieving the largest reduction in air pollution in more than a decade, including reducing sulfur dioxide emissions by a further 70 percent from their 2003 leveAir Interstate Rule, aimed at achieving the largest reduction in air pollution in more than a decade, including reducing sulfur dioxide emissions by a further 70 percent from their 2003 leveair pollution in more than a decade, including reducing sulfur dioxide emissions by a further 70 percent from their 2003 levels.

In the midst of attacks from Congress on virtually all things environmental, EPA has announced a rule to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic air 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.

-- Based on the scientific review, the agencies may, by rule, modify the definition of «renewable biomass» from Federal lands in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act and section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 as appropriate to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

As for carbon emissions, Monday's ruling concerns a provision of the Clean Air Act that is entirely separate from the one that underlies the Clean Power Plan to limit greenhouse gas pollution.

Stronger and longer heat waves, more frequent extreme weather events such as flooding and tropical cyclones, rises in sea level, and increased air pollution will become more the rule than the exception.

says Ann Weeks, senior counsel for the Clean Air Task Force, who said that in her 20 years in the field, someone always sues over new pollution rules and the rules typically wind up being upheld, as was the case with rules regulating power plants» mercury emissions.

EPA issued its endangerment finding because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled three years ago that greenhouse gas emissions constitute air pollution and that EPA therefore must determine whether that pollution threatens the health and welfare of Americans.