Sentences with phrase «pre-obama ozone standard»

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.

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.

Given the pre-Thanksgiving rollout of EPA's new ozone standards, several environmental reporters joked that the agency's midsummer time frame will lead to rules being proposed on Friday, July 3 (Greenwire, Nov. 26, 2014).

Environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers hailed today's proposal, saying that tighter ozone standards are long overdue.

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'm not going to address all of them, but some of the most significant would impact hydraulic fracturing, ozone standards, methane controls and the next five - year plan covering access to offshore areas.

Unfortunately, EPA then issued new, more stringent 2015 ozone standards before fully implementing the 2008 standards.

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.

On other questions, though, such as the delay on ozone standards, there are signs that politics are intruding.

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.

After the Bush EPA finalized the 2008 ozone standard, environmental pressure groups complained it wasn't stringent enough.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«Republicans,» according to National Journal, «have vowed to target the ozone standard as a part of their early energy agenda.»

«We're reducing emissions at the same time, but tightening the current ozone standard to near unachievable levels would serve as a self - inflicted wound to the U.S. economy at the worst possible time.

Likewise, a NAM report, titled «Potential Economic Impacts of a Stricter Ozone Standard,» states that a majority of new reductions would have to come from «unknown controls.»

The EPA says ozone standards that have required scrubbers and other pollution - control equipment have yielded dramatic results, helping to slash average ozone levels 33 percent from 1980 to 2013.

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.

Interestingly, EPA announced on Tuesday - Election Day - that it would postpone the release of the new ozone standard until the end of the year.

«EPA clearly understands that many municipalities need more time to implement the current ozone standards, and yet the agency continues its heedless rush to lower them further.

«CEI Joins 60 Organizations Opposing National Ozone Standard,» Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 9, 2016.

Myron Ebell is a signatory to a letter opposing the National Ozone Standard.

One of the most damaging to the economy is the new ozone standard which, according to a recent study, could destroy as many as 7.3 million U.S. jobs.

«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.

«Given the harmful economic effects, we ask that you consider measures to change the ozone standard and reform the rulemaking process,» the letter reads.

The group's modeling also indicates that the entire nation would be able to attain the more stringent Obama administration ozone standard, if it were not for international emissions, especially from Canada and Mexico, and for exceptional events like wildfires that add smog - forming chemicals to the air.

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.

The CSAPR update revises the rule to address interstate transport for the ozone standard and requires 25 states including New York to adjust their 2017 Ozone Season allowance limits for NOx.

Prepared and submitted public comments on behalf of energy industry client concerning proposed EPA regulations on ground level ozone standards under the Clean Air Act.

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Manufactured to ISO9001 and EEC standards of safety and design, the range includes: Water and wastewater screening; Grit removal and dewatering; Septic receival stations; Dissolved air flotation; Sedimentation systems and clarifiers; Shaftless conveyors; Sludge dewatering; Lime handling; and silo systems; Continuous sand filters; Microfilters and screens; Solar - powered circulation; UV disinfection; Ozone treatment; Anaerobic treatment.

The EPA says Global Companies LLC, which operates a major crude oil ship - loading terminal at the Port of Albany, has run afoul of federal air pollution standards and has been emitting more ozone - producing compounds than they say they are.

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.

The region's levels of ozone and particulate matter, two pollutants caused by both automobiles and industry, exceed national air quality standards.

Average number of days per year (2010 - 2014 average) when ozone levels exceed the US health - based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours, at non-urban and urban sites.

The county also exceeds the federal standard for ozone, the main ingredient of smog.

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.

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

Unfortunately, the standards allow far more ozone than the agency's own science advisers unanimously recommended and far more than Clean Air Act requirements would allow.

«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 CFCs.

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

«We also welcome EPA's proposal of a separate standard to protect forests from ozone damage,» Baron said.

Such a standard would be based on a cumulative, weighted total of daily 12 - hour ozone exposures to plants and crops over a three - month period.