Sentences with phrase «plant emissions standards»

In the latest round of federal elections, the governing Labor Party promised to implement power plant emissions standards and carbon capture requirements for new coal - burning generators.

Not exact matches

The federal emissions standard is estimated to reduce carbon pollution equivalent to 134 coal power plants burning annually and save drivers $ 1,650 per vehicle through fuel savings according to the coalition that includes Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington.

Refinery manager Simon Butterworth said in a statement that the decision to shut down the burner, which improves plant efficiency, was made despite independent analysis of air quality indicating that workplace emissions from the facility were at least 100 times better than standards required for occupational health.

Obama is directing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to work with existing and new power plants to develop emission standards, according to a blueprint for the proposals from the White House.

He has long criticized the Obama administration's Environmental Protection Agency, saying that its proposals to tighten emission standards on coal - burning power plants are killing American jobs.

At least one fifth of the coal plants in the U.S. have been closed, or are in the process of closing, over the past several years due to their inability to economically meet emissions standards from the EPA.

The company said the continued operation of the nuclear plants is a «crucial way» to keep down New York's carbon emissions, as well as electric costs, and a «realistic» plan to meet the state's 2030 clean energy standards.

President Obama's plan for national standards to curb power plant emissions is based, in part, on a cap and trade type program already existence in New York.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

New York will end an agreement with New Jersey allowing companies to trade emission credits in order to meet pollution standards, a decision that follows accusations by federal prosecutors that the credits were part of a corruption scheme involving a Competitive Power Ventures power plant in New Jersey.

A group of energy companies and power plants are challenging New York's recently approved Clean Energy Standard (CES), which aims to reduce harmful carbon dioxide emissions in the state by subsidizing financially distressed nuclear power plants, including the FitzPatrick and Nine Mile Point plants in Oswego county.

«We established the state's first carbon dioxide emissions standard when siting new power plants which will ensure that no new dirty, coal - burning plants will be built in the State of New York, period,» Cuomo said.

Cuomo has justified the bailout of Exelon's plants and the surcharge by claiming failure of the plants could jeopardize jobs and the plants provide zero carbon emissions in line with his Clean Energy Standard.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed that the new standard include «zero emission credits» for Upstate nuclear plants to provide them with above - market compensation for producing power without carbon emissions.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

In their comments, activists said that while H.B. 2004 requires «unit - specific» standards for coal plants, that does not prohibit carbon emissions trading.

According to the Alliance to Save Energy, new standards for efficient lighting could save 158 million tons of carbon emissions each year, the equivalent of the emissions from 80 coal - fired power plants.

Aldy's scheme allows that plant to satisfy the standard through a combination of buying low or zero - emissions power and making its own power with lower carbon intensity.

Although a combined cycle natural gas plant could easily meet the standard, even the most efficient coal plant would have to cut about 40 percent of its CO2 emissions.

The EPA eventually ruled that the emissions from this power plant alone caused the violations of the SO2 national ambient air quality standards in the downwind state, New Jersey.

U.S. EPA will unveil a proposal for the first - ever technology standards to rein in power plant emissions of carbon dioxide today.

When he challenged the Obama rule in court as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt was one of the leading voices for the legal argument that EPA can't regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants because it already has a standard for mercury and air toxics emission from generators — known as the 112 exclusion, referring to a section of the Clean Air Act.

So as Europe and the United States have tightened air quality standards and cleaned up emissions from power plants, sulfates in the atmosphere have been reduced as well.

«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 current American Air emissions standards in effect since the 1980s, make no distinction between Otto or Diesel power plants.

To put a specific point on it, EPA's top air regulator, Gina McCarthy, told utility regulators Nov. 13 that it would be «at least several years» before EPA addressed a top priority of environmentalists: carbon emission standards for existing coal - fired power plants.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natEmissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natemissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

The EPA has proposed a Carbon Pollution Standard for Future Power Plants, which would restrict the emission of greenhouse gases, requiring coal plants, in particular, to be more efficient and clPlants, which would restrict the emission of greenhouse gases, requiring coal plants, in particular, to be more efficient and clplants, in particular, to be more efficient and cleaner.

The take - home messages are that global warming legislation needs to cap CO2 emissions from power plants and include strong efficiency standards for building shells and the appliances and heating and cooling equipment inside them.

At this point, five years in, Obama should also be judged by his actions (tightened car emission standards; delayed power plant rules) rather than his words on climate change.

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.

COTAP's carbon offset projects, which counteract emissions through tree planting, agroforestry and forest protection, are all located in areas where income levels are less than $ 2 per day, and are certified under Plan Vivo, the world's longest - standing voluntary standard for forest carbon.

Officials consider it «unlikely» that emissions - reducing technology for power plants — such as systems that capture and store carbon — will prove practical, and plants will have to stop using coal in order to meet the new emissions standards.

The CEIP's core function is to jumpstart compliance with EPA's so - called Clean Power Plan (CPP)-- the agency's carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards for existing fossil - fuel power plants.

The UK government pledged last year that coal would be phased out by 2025 In November, they announced that the last coal plant could close as early as 2022 without government intervention, due to rising costs related to compliance with emissions standards.

Finally, the emissions standard for each state would be a cumulative, overall emission rate average of all fossil fuel plants in the state.

The EPA would then set emissions standards — the rate of carbon emissions — for power plants by first tallying the share of electricity generated by coal and gas - fired plants in each state during a set of baseline years — in the NRDC example, 2008 - 10.

Now, for the first time, the EPA has finalized new rules, or standards, that will reduce carbon emissions from power plants.

Consequently, the UK government plans to enact a series of emissions standards for coal plants as well as incentives for the use of renewable energy sources in order to meet its 2025 target for the phase out of coal.

The pending rules from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are widely expected to set emission - reduction targets for existing power plants and allow states to craft their own plans for how to meet the standard.

The lawsuit claims that Allegheny undertook many construction projects over the years to extend the operational lifespan of these plants without complying with federal standards that require implementation of best available control technology standards to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions when new sources of power are constructed.

As expected, the President advocated carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards for new and existing coal - fired power plants, tough new energy efficiency standards for homes and appliances, and federal support for private renewable energy investment on public lands.

This devolution of climate policy has been further reinforced by the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) efforts to regulate carbon dioxide from existing power plants under the Clean Power Plan, which requires states to develop their own plans for compliance with emissions standards.

Coal plants likely will be under pressure to upgrade equipment or close in the wake of anticipated emissions standards from the Obama administration.

It's imperative that the Administration moves forward with this ambitious plan — in particular, setting stringent emissions standards for both new and existing power plants.

Obama has delivered new auto pollution standards that can guide us as we tackle the next climate challenges: slashing power plant emissions and oil use.

An EPS achieves this by setting the investment standard between 500 - 550 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour, which only allows for coal - fired power plants that effectively capture and store their carbon emissions.

In order to join the international community and make this announcement something civil society can embrace, KfW must follow the steps of other major institutions — like the European Investment Bank and the U.S. Export - Import Bank — and announce an Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) that restricts the carbon intensity of power plant investments.

The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel - efficiency standards would prevent more than one year's worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.

Is this a show of mere tokenism by the government to its own emission standards, by shutting down just one thermal power plant when more than a hundred of the remaining power plants continue to pollute our air?