Sentences with phrase «pollution laws»

In the 1970's we could not build more power systems because of air pollution laws, and needed growth in capacity from somewhere.

Indeed, he and others said, a number of solutions cost little money and involve already existing technologies or air pollution laws.

I first toyed with this notion, and the possibility that citizens could collect a bounty (as has been the case with water pollution laws) on Twitter last year:

More can be read in the Judge Sippel's motion to dismiss Jeffrey Holmstead, which notes Holmstead's in - and - out role at U.S. EPA while working for coal companies to undermine EPA pollution law enforcement.

More can be read in the Judge Sippel's motion to dismiss Jeffrey Holmstead, which notes Holmstead's in - and - out role at U.S. EPA while working for coal companies to undermine EPA pollution law enforcement.

Squeezed out by an abundance of cheap shale gas and ever tightening pollution laws, it may be a harbinger of things to come for other fossil fuel markets globally.

From 1981 - 1989 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified nearly 900 violations of pollution laws at Chevron's El Segundo Refinery.

Because the club did not have a permit, Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris sued it in February for allegedly violating pollution laws.

And would the UK government want to retain the tough pollution laws which it breaches so regularly now?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A controversial air pollution law substantially reduced acid rain in the United States in 1995, researchers reported Tuesday.

These will be the first diesels to use the MultiAir variable valve timing and lift technology and will help the motors meet new EU6 pollution laws.

It would seem that before pollution laws really take effect, assuming constant economic growth, both the rate CO2 output and cumulative CO2 grow exponentially — but so do is the rate of reflective tropospheric aerosol emission — and the effects roughly cancel one - another.

Scott Pruitt had a bad habit as Oklahoma's attorney general: he liked to have oil lobbyists ghostwrite his official government letters calling for limits to enforcing federal pollution laws.

It's hard for us to grasp how pipelining Canadian oil is worse than importing oil in much riskier tankers from unstable, unfriendly places like Venezuela and the Middle East — or how it's better for the global environment to transport Canadian oil by tanker to China, where it will be burned under far less rigorous pollution laws and controls.

If you're a coal lobbyist like Jeff Holmstead, getting stuck in an elevator with Greenpeace activists is an inconvenient occupational hazard, especially if you then can't find a cab and cars are honking at your during an uncomfortable conversation about your work to attack pollution laws.

Watch Holmstead re-write the history of his attacks on mercury pollution laws:

The other mechanism would be to follow President Obama's route and use our state - based pollution laws to regulate substantial emission reductions.

He currently sits on committees that oversee legislation related to the enforcement of U.S. fisheries and marine pollution laws, as well as matters relating to water resources development, conservation and management and water pollution control.

Several of its coal - fired power plants were aging and needed scrubbers to reduce emissions and meet North Carolina pollution laws.

The report found that the number of inspections and warnings issued under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), one of Canada's most important pollution laws, has declined since 2005 - 06 — despite an increase in the number of enforcement officers.

Spanish Maritime Law Association — presentation concerning the oil pollution laws of the coastal United States.

The current bill also revises earlier provisions that critics worried would have made it tougher for EPA to regulate products (or «articles») that contain a known toxic chemical, as well as murky language that might have inadvertently required EPA to keep considering costs in chemical assessments and blocked certain state air and water pollution laws.

First came the revival of the river's waters, through the activism of groups like the sloop club (which takes people on free sails on the sloop Woody Guthrie on summer evenings), Clearwater, Scenic Hudson and many others, but also through ambitious programs to build sewage plants and tighten pollution laws.

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.

Jan 04,2016...THROW - AWAY LAWS The passage of a pollution law often occasions celebration, but a recent incident on...

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.

Europe's pollution laws will stop most old - style coal - fired power plants operating at full power next century.

Of course Western countries have benefited from China's lax environmental standards (not to mention labor laws), and as activist Ma Jun recently announced, around 30 multinationals, including Pepsi and Panasonic, have been found to be breaking China's pollution laws (out of 2,700 violators).

We're now focused on implementing the mandates set out under SB 32, as well as implementing the state's cap - and - trade and air pollution laws.