Sentences with phrase «ozone standard in»

The ALA certainly does not disclose to voters that the Obama administration rejected any tightening of the federal ozone standard in 2011 because of the economic damage it would cause.

After promulgation of the current ozone standard in 2008, EPA, two years later, called a temporary halt to the nationwide implementation of the standard in response to the severe recession prevailing at the time.

Not exact matches

She voted against legislation to delay implementation of federal ozone standards, and she voted in support of a spending bill for energy and water programs.

SUN AUGUST 13 AT 6:00 PM — TUDOR PARK — LADY AND THE VAMPS (Pop / Rock cover band) @ Tudor Park, 133rd Avenue between 81st and 82nd Streets in Ozone Park Lady and the Vamps is a band that covers a range of genres from jazz standards like «Cheek to Cheek» to chart topping hits like «All About That Bass» The band has an impressive and unique sound and its members pride themselves on their technical abilities, improvisational skills, and musical versatility.

Although ozone pollution is dropping across many parts of the United States, western Europe and Japan, many people living in those countries still experience more than a dozen days every year in which levels of the lung irritant exceed health - based standards.

ven so, during 2010 - 2014 people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the U.S. health - based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours.

On July 12 a coalition filed suit against the EPA for its recently announced delay in the implementation of new public health — based standards for ozone pollution, on grounds similar to the methane challenge.

In March 2008 the Environmental Protection Agency issued new national air quality standards limiting ozone smog.

Starting in 2010, EPA experienced a series of delays in issuing a proposal to tighten the 75 - ppb ozone standard, which was set during George W. Bush's presidency.

«Increasing background ozone from rising Asian emissions leaves less room for local production of ozone before the federal standard is violated,» said lead author Meiyun Lin, a research scholar in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University and a scientist at GFDL.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCIn July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCin an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

In 2011, 231 counties in the U.S. exceeded the EPA's regulatory standards for ozone, the main component of smoIn 2011, 231 counties in the U.S. exceeded the EPA's regulatory standards for ozone, the main component of smoin the U.S. exceeded the EPA's regulatory standards for ozone, the main component of smog.

RE «He also includes standard statements implying that scientists implicated CFCs in ozone depletion to deprive the developing world of refrigeration»

As noted above, the first three metrics are associated with regulatory standards in different world regions for the protection of human health to acute or short - term exposure to ozone.

The 1994 Mitsubishis will have driver's side air bags and, depending on the model, optional or standard ozone - friendly air conditioners.The»94 Diamante will receive a standard passenger's side air bag as well as new taillamps and five - spoke wheels.The Mighty Max trucks will have side - impact door beams and center high - mounted stop lights in» 94, while the Montero sports - utility will get a third row of seats.

You can't blame them for trying: With the White House set to change hands in less than a year's time - likely bringing on board a more eco-friendly administration - industry groups have been pressing the EPA to squelch stricter air - quality standards for ozone, reports the WSJ's Stephen Power.

Air quality improvements will continue as states add even more emission control technologies to achieve ozone standards set in 2008 under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program.

«I expect it will be a large source of ozone precursors, and this would be located in an area that's already failing to meet federal health - based standards for ozone,» he said.

They indicate that higher ozone concentrations, even at levels below current air quality standards in most of the world, have significant negative effects on worker productivity.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 to 2002.153,154

They find that variation in ozone concentrations at levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity.

A quick estimate suggests that a 10 ppb reduction in the ozone standard would translate into an annual cost saving of approximately $ 1.1 billion in labor expenditure.

Variation in ozone concentrations at ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity.

Green groups had to sue the EPA in 2002 before it began enforcing new ozone standards — and its plan was so weak it was rejected in court.

«Bringing ozone pollution standards in line with the latest science will clean up our air, improve access to crucial air quality information, and protect those most at - risk,» McCarthy insisted in a statement last week.

The agency has blown past several deadlines in setting new standards for ozone pollution.

For example, in the Cincinnati - Dayton region, assuming an ozone standard of 70 ppb, production would decline by $ 14.8 billion, killing 91,700 jobs in 2030.

Health - related costs of the current effects of ozone air pollution exceeding national standards have been estimated at $ 6.5 billion (in 2008 U.S. dollars) nationwide, based on a U.S. assessment of health impacts from ozone levels during 2000 — 2002.

In 2015, the EPA promulgated the strictest ozone standards ever, which are expected to have, at best, negligible health benefits, but could impose significant costs on consumers and the economy.

The EPA's 2015 rulemaking, which set the new ozone standards at 70 parts per billion, could quadruple the number of counties defined as being in non-attainment to 958.

Pace the phrase «any air pollutant,» everything in § 115 points to it being meant to apply only to NAAQS pollutants, i.e., those for which EPA has established a «National Ambient Air Quality Standard»: a numerical value representing the appropriate atmospheric concentration of ozone, particulate matter, etc..

In 2013, the Government of Canada established more stringent and comprehensive outdoor air quality standards for fine particulate matter (a component of which is black carbon) and ground - level ozone.

He engaged in a fiery exchange with EPA administrator Stephen Johnson over the White House's role in denying California a waiver for higher tailpipe emissions standards and weakening ozone standards.

The stratospheric ozone tracer is defined as equal to ozone in the stratosphere, and including standard ozone removal (but not production) in the troposphere, where the tropopause is the WMO meteorological tropopause.

The old standard Brewer - Dobson equatorial ozone migration theory is inadequate for modeling the factors involved in actual documented stratospheric ozone generation.

Soon EPA is expected to unveil more restrictive standards on ozone that could be the most costly regulation ever, potentially putting about half of the United States in non-attainment, impacting GDP and employment on a national scale.

In 2015, the EPA set the standard for ground - level ozone, one of the most common criteria pollutants, at 70 parts per billion (ppb), a standard at the lenient - end of the range recommended by EPA's scientific advisory committee.

In 2015, the EPA set the standard for ground - level ozone, one of the most common criteria pollutants, at 70 parts per billion (ppb), a standard at the lenient - end of the range

«We hope that this extension signals that the EPA is being more deliberative in finalizing this rule because they realize that the proposed new ozone standard would put nearly 100 percent of the United States in non-attainment and subject every state to erroneous and costly requirements,» API's Howard Feldman told Dow Jones.

This has certainly been the pattern in EPA rulemakings in other arenas, such as ozone standards and air toxics.

The oil and gas lobby group American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) coordinated opposition in 2013 to both the Renewable Fuel Standard Program and ozone limits with Pruitt's office.

In a companion report, the Senate Republican Policy Committee estimates the job losses and «energy tax» burden (compliance cost + GDP reduction) each State will incur if EPA picks the most stringent ozone standard it is considering.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

The White House announcement that it was overruling the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to adopt a stricter standard for ground - level ozone came just hours after another dismal jobs reports and in the midst of an intensifying political debate over the impact of federal regulations on job creation

We present an analysis of how three alternative scenarios for US power plant carbon standards could change fine particulate matter and ozone concentrations in ambient air, and the resulting public health co-benefits.

Another data point in the continuing public discussion of EPA's plan to make the nation's standards for ozone more restrictive, even as the existing standards have ozone levels falling 18 percent from 2000 to 2013 — and giving every indication levels will continue to fall.

Included in the Obama Administration's «Unified Agenda» for 2015 are new, job - killing standards for ground - level ozone that are the product of a friendly lawsuit from the Sierra Club.