Sentences with phrase «plant emission limits»

(He himself endorsed the concept of power plant emission limits 8 years ago, only to disavow the idea once in office.)

Seniors (31 %) are less likely than those under age 30 (60 %) to say the Earth is warming due to human activity, and are less inclined to favor stricter power plant emission limits in order to address climate change.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

Not exact matches

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

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

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

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.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to President Obama's efforts to limit greenhouse gas 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.

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.

Tennant opposes a proposal by the Obama administration to limit carbon emissions from coal - fired power plants.

Instead, they argue that Australia should base its climate policy on a carbon budget that sets an upper limit on the country's total emissions between now and 2050, institute a cap - and - trade scheme, consider closing selected coal - fired power plants, and ramp up renewable energy.

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.

As a result, the NRDC, the EDF, the Clean Air Task Force and other groups support both a cap - and - trade scheme to limit CO2 emissions as well as subsidies for the first CCS coal - fired power plants to be built.

It also lends support to the US Environmental Protection Agency, which last week proposed a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from new coal - fired and gas - fired power plants.

In the past, ministers have argued that expanding nuclear power was an essential feature of efforts to limit Britain's emissions of CO2 on the grounds that nuclear plants produce none of the gas directly.

Since tritium is a suspected carcinogen, production at the plant has been limited to keep emissions within safe levels.

The European Investment Bank's new criteria on coal lending — tied to specified limits on fossil fuel power plant emissions — have been criticized as being too generous to polluters, while the U.S. Ex-Im Bank continues to back coal - fired power stations in many parts of the world.

As gas eats into coal plants» profit margins, new limits on mercury and air toxics emissions taking effect in 2015 will take another bite.

Gases from the plant will be processed to remove dangerous compounds like dioxins, and the company pledges that emissions will be well under state and federal environmental limits.

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.

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

No Obama climate regulation has drawn Trump's ire more than the Clean Power Plan, which would limit carbon emissions from existing coal - fired power plants as a way to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The New Source Performance Standards, which tightened emissions limits on coal - burning power plants, were enacted in 1979.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

The justices scuttled the agency's power plant rule to limit mercury emissions but the decision is unlikely to undermine CO2 regulations

Current proposals are to set a limit on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse - gas emissions by issuing permits that limit those emissions to entities like power and industrial plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to finalize its controversial first rule on reducing mercury emissions from power plants this month, and delegates from the United Nations Environment Programme met in late February to discuss an international convention limiting mercury use and emissions.

It's been a quarter century since government regulations limiting emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from coal - fired power plants began to neutralize the problem of acid rain, but lakes in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada have been sluggish to recover.

More recently, Southern deployed its lobbying power to block carbon emission limits for power plants proposed by the Obama administration.

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

The agency would receive $ 239 million to carry out climate - change regulations and initiatives, and $ 25 million to help states to comply with a rule — expected to be finalized this year — that would limit greenhouse - gas emissions from power plants.

Volkswagen starts off the year setting a goal to reduce the environmental impact of its manufacturing plants 25 % by 2018, cutting energy use, limiting waste and trimming emissions.

President Obama has charted a creditable course given the limits set by a paralyzed and polarized Congress, moving toward regulations curbing emissions of greenhouse gases from proposed and (more important) existing power plants.

-- Limiting the construction and use of the least - efficient coal - fired power plants delivers more than 20 % of the emissions reduction and helps curb local air pollution.

They should include people in gas country, where federal studies hopefully will soon clarify ways to responsibly expand extraction of a vital fuel (if you care even remotely about moving away from oil or limiting emissions from coal - burning power plants).

A few days before President Obama's release of the final «Clean Power Plan» restricting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Bill Gates posted a Gates Notes essay that helps reinforce an important reality: It will take more than regulation to limit humanity's growing influence on the climate system.

For the past ten years the plant has been operating without the level of emissions controls to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions as stipulated in the Clean Air Act.

In 2009, Apple quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the group's opposition to limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

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.

Mr. Obama has a plan to build five power plants burning coal but capturing emissions (see below) to help limit the greenhouse impact from electrical generation.

Of course, the plant that was closed in Tongliang lacked basic pollution control equipment to limit the emission of pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

Proposed actions include the development and finalization of EPA standards that set limits on carbon emissions for both new and existing power plants, improved energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and increased deployment of renewable energy.

That controversial proposal, announced in early June, followed on the heels of EPA's January proposal of regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants.

The meeting will also focus on Obama's plan, announced last June, to use the EPA to limit greenhouse gas emissions from future and existing power plants.

The coalition will also encourage the EPA to limit climate change - causing carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants under the Clean Power Plan, push for federal controls on methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry, and work on controlling emissions from large - scale industry facilities, said the New York attorney general's office in a statement.

RGGI is intended to limit CO2 emissions from electric power plants in the Northeast.