Sentences with phrase «raise emissions standards»

The second memo paves the way for California and more than a dozen other states to raise emissions standards above and beyond the national standard.

You raise emissions standards and small vehicle tax breaks.

Not exact matches

In a utopian world, Canadian auto workers would get huge raises, governments would lavish money on the industry, and cars would drive themselves as they met fuel efficiency and emissions standards effortlessly.

A climate deal between the United States and China could spur new regulations on vehicle - efficiency standards, refrigerant pollutants and methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, launching a new round of executive action that is sure to raise objections from a Republican - dominated Congress.

Raising efficiency standards for autos, appliances and buildings is a good thing to do, but it won't transform our economy or cut emissions 80 %.

If those people rely heavily on fossil fuels such as coal to expand the economy and raise their living standards to the level people in the rich world have enjoyed for the last 50 years, the result will be a climate catastrophe regardless of anything the United States or even China does to decrease its emissions.

That it becomes apparent that reducing emissions while raising the living standards of the poor is as much the responsibility of the rich in Beijing as of the rich in Boston.

At Georgetown University today, Obama stated that his administration would expand renewable energy projects on federal lands, raise energy efficiency standards on appliances, and, most importantly, limit carbon pollution from both existing and new power plants, which represent about 40 percent of the U.S.'s emissions.

The Chinese no doubt had concerns over this, having publicly opposed the 1.5 degrees C standard (see previous posts «China in Copenhagen Day 3: It's getting hot in here — Tuvalu raises the bar, China reacts» and «China in Copenhagen Day 5: No Country is an Island «-RRB- due to its implications for even more onerous emissions cuts.

Essentially, how do you raise standard of living of the Third World to the levels of Europe or the US yet lower greenhouse emissions when either the technology to accomplish said task is either not available or too expensive to be implemented?

«This momentous announcement raises the bar for controlling carbon emissions in the United States,» Andrew Steer, president of the World Resources Institute, said, adding, «These new standards send a powerful message around the world.»

The findings raise challenging questions about the Irish standards and methodology and highlight serious shortcomings in comparison to our UK neighbours, permitting substantially higher levels of CO2 emissions from new homes in Ireland than in the UK.

In a major victory over carmakers and their attempts to rebuff state measures aimed to rein in GHG emissions, Vermont won a court ruling last week mandating that auto companies work to develop new technologies to raise their fuel economy standards.

This summer President Obama took the biggest step of any president to date when he raised fuel efficiency standards — a move that will cut US greenhouse gas emissions by 10 % when fully implemented.

, who was rolling out his own energy bill, a measure that relies heavily on expanding nuclear power and raising fuel economy standards without putting a cap on carbon dioxide emissions.

Ambitious new initiatives have cascaded out of Schwarzenegger's office — including the two measures raising the renewable - power requirement on utilities, a state subsidy program to encourage the installation of electricity - generating solar panels on 1 million California roofs, and in January 2007, an executive order establishing the nation's first «low - carbon fuel standard,» which requires a reduction of at least 10 percent in the carbon emissions from transportation fuels by 2020.