Sentences with phrase «pollution rules»

For a handful of states that rely heavily on electricity from aging coal plants and aren't compelled to close them under other air pollution rules, this will buy them a few years.

They say that by packaging reductions in greenhouse gas emissions with other environmental measures, like cutting other power plant emissions, they could win concessions on other pollution rules.

On the merits, there's a good case for stringent pollution rules.

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

Power stations are closing down due to old age and more stringent pollution rules.

In this sense, the EPA's new pollution rules appear to be another example of the ongoing success of «oblique» strategies to reduce climate - warming greenhouse gas emissions.

The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.

When a community is economically and systematically linked to the root cause of global warming, any threat to the system — from federal pollution rules to the basic tenets of the scientific method — could be viewed as an obscene violation of «community standards,» and thus something to shield schoolkids from.

Changes to the new source pollution rules for power plants are probable, particularly for coal generators, as are changes to the Waters of the U.S. rule.

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.

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

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy speaks about the agency's carbon pollution rules at Georgetown University in October 2014.

Europe now has the opportunity to improve aviation pollution rules by asking airlines to pay for and reduce their emissions like everyone else.

BEIJING Growth in China's manufacturing sector slowed more than expected in January to an 8 - month low in the face of a cooling property market and tighter pollution rules that have curtailed factory output.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency might be preparing to unveil a major air pollution rule change shortly after midterm elections.

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.

Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a bill that would have killed a state pollution rule designed to protect wild rice, calling it an extreme overreach by state lawmakers and a violation of the federal Clean Water Act.

Coal - fired power plants have been under pressure to shut down because of pollution rules that have limited things such as mercury emissions, and by a formidable competitor in the energy marketplace: cheap natural gas.

In addition, between 2005 and 2030, U.S. particle pollution rules for new diesel engines will cut their black carbon emissions by 86 %.

Competitive Enterprise Institute (co-authors ALEC reports against U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pollution rules)

Older coal plants will continue to be hamstrung by the cost of complying with non-climate pollution rules (such as the ozone air quality standards), plus the perhaps even lower price of natural gas.

How might the new U.S. EPA pollution rules ripple out to affect global action that reduces future climate risk?

But chief among them, the EPA's incoming greenhouse gas regulations (and other pollution rules aimed at coal plants) are surely working to convince power companies to make the switch, and they'll help ensure that coal stays boxed out should the price of nat gas spike again.

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.

He could also appoint a Supreme Court justice who would help to invalidate the federal pollution rules that are key to achieving America's commitments.

The Trump administration is exploring the possibility of punching a hole in former President Obama's 2015 ozone pollution rule.

«Show of hands: Who is * not * releasing a report sometime in the next week about EPA's carbon pollution rules for power plants?»

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.

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.

Since then, spurred by new pollution rules and pricing shifts, utilities have switched to cheaper natural gas (which produces just half the CO2 as coal when burned, though with some offsetting methane emissions), as well as wind and solar.

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

The EPA took steps to challenge California's decades - old right to set its own air pollution rules, setting up a showdown between the federal government and a state that has emerged as a bulwark against the Trump administration's policies.

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

Forced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to meet new pollution rules, Georgia Power will shutter the coal and oil burners at Plant Yates and two other plants.

One document, a «presidential memorandum» that was published in the Federal Register yesterday, orders the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to come up with new guidelines for reviewing all proposed government regulations, which cover everything from air - pollution rules to exposure limits on toxic materials in the workplace.

The volume of fly ash created by power plants is increasing, due to more coal burning coupled with more stringent air pollution rules.

California's long - standing exception to develop their own air pollution rules were based on the horrible smog problems existing in the South Coast Area around LA back in the 1960s and 70s.

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.

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:

The utility MACT rule, the cross-state air pollution rule, coal ash regulations, and national ambient air quality standards would make building a new coal plant extremely difficult while significantly decreasing the lifespan of existing plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency's anti-coal aero - pollution rules, intense opposition to the Keystone pipeline, and looming restrictions on hydraulic fracturing for natural gas are already further impairing electricity and other energy availability and reliability.

In the case of leaded gasoline, eighty percent of the phase - out of leaded gas had already occurred before the establishment of a trading system, due to the ban on the sale of cars that could run on leaded gasoline after 1975, along with local air pollution rules.

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.

House Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R - IL): Shimkus is a sharp critic of the EPA, but praised how the air chief navigated the EPA's cross-state air pollution rule.

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.

For years, environmentalists and regulators have cited childhood asthma as an excuse for ever - stricter pollution rules.

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.