Sentences with phrase «put federal limits»

While the EPA has, under the Clean Air Act put federal limits on toxic emissions of arsenic, mercury, and lead pollution that power plants emit — as well as on pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — there are currently no such limits on the carbon emissions from new or existing power plants.

Not exact matches

But many federal and state laws put a limit on how much information from an employee's personal medical history must be provided to justify taking a day off.

A stiff challenge, put completely out of reach for most Canadians by the federal Income Tax Act, which limits tax - deferred retirement saving to 18 per cent of income or $ 22,970 — whichever, in words the income tax form has made so familiar, is less.

With the passage in 1968 of federal legislation mandating decidedly lowered rent ceilings, court rulings limiting discretion in tenant selection, and pressure from the civil rights movement to put an end to racial bias in tenant selection and assignments, this percentage increased.

Similarly, federal nutrition standards, including calorie caps, necessarily put limits on the many desserts the kids say they'd like to see.

While it is up to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to determine whether plants are licensed to operate, the state licenses the facilities» use of river water for operations, and can theoretically put a halt to operations by withholding or limiting permission on the basis of concerns over water quality.

The Lassa fever outbreak is gradually holding sway across the nation just as efforts are being put in place by the federal government to limit its spread, hence, to curtail it.

«I'm opposed to this act because it puts public safety at risk,» the county executive said, explaining the legislation would put the county at odds with the federal government, and would ultimately dub Westchester as a «sanctuary» county for undocumented immigrant; one that limits its cooperation with the national government's effort to enforce immigration law.

In return, the parent receives a state - funded account that can be put toward multiple but limited uses: private - school tuition, tutoring from certified tutors, individual public - school courses, online programs, community college and university tuition, standardized testing fees, curriculum costs, and saving for future higher - education expenses in a tax - advantaged federal Coverdell Account.

It is true that there were guidelines initiated by the federal Department of Education under the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002 that no doubt put pressure on the states not to have a disproportionate number of students in special education and the law actually put limits on the percentage that could be exempted from the required achievement assessments.

The limits put on unhealthy lunch and snack food in Utah schools might seem like a hardship for those who are used to starting the day with a doughnut and a Coke, but the new federal rules are good for everyone.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration once again is refusing to put safer limits on the hours truck drivers are allowed to work.

He also did not support the federal takeover of the student loan industry in 2009, so it is safe to assume that he puts his trust in the private market and wants to limit federal involvement overall.

Beginning January 1, 2014, new loan limits were put in place by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).

To my mind, the absolute least that the federal government could do would be to concurrently put in a graduated system (call it a «marginal deduction rate») where people can deduct 18 % of their income on the first $ 140,000 and then, say, 10 % on all additional income — with no income limits whatsoever.

One explanation is that the firm is comfortable it can rely on the Greenspan / Bernanke put, now enhanced by its access to the Fed's discount window as a member of the Federal Reserve System, to limit downside risks in the event of a crisis.

«We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,» Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap - and - trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon - emission limits.

«The Manufacturers Alliance's Donald Norman and API's Howard Feldman will warn that the agency's regulations would be too expensive for industry and put almost the entire country into nonattainment for federal air quality limits, including rural areas where no one lives.

Re 290 Edward Greisch The federal way to regulate is to put a legal limit on the CO2 into the air per kilowatt hour and allow the electric companies figure out how to do it.

Siding with the Fourth, Seventh, and Eighth Circuits, the Supreme Court held a federal court exercising its inherent authority to sanction bad faith conduct by ordering a litigant to pay the other side's legal fees is limited to awarding the fees the innocent party incurred solely because of the misconduct or — put another way — to the fees that party would not have incurred but for the bad faith.

While the FDA is not limiting production of the device or asking that any products be recalled from the market, the federal agency said that the manufacturer had not put into place a testing mechanism to show that the medical devices satisfied certain design specifications and failed to validate how manufacturing was affecting products with metallic spikes.

As of June 21st of 1988, the federal government placed into effect the Technical and Miscellaneous Revenue Act (TAMRA), which placed limits on the amount of money that can be put into a life insurance contract during the first 7 years of the policy's existence.

Within federal constraints, employers set limits — generally between $ 1,200 and $ 5,000 — that workers could put aside each year.

Since 2008, federal regulations were put in place, mortgage practices — especially but not limited to subprime lending — have been tightened considerably, and home prices came back closer to earth in many markets.

The new federal tax law puts a limit on property tax deductions, causing some homeowners to find it beneficial to appeal their property taxes.