Sentences with phrase «regulate air pollutant emissions»

The government says it's the first time it will regulate air pollutant emissions from locomotives.

On 7 July, the Commission published its proposal to amend the 2004 directive regulating air pollutant emissions from non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) so as to increase the flexibility provisions.

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I think we've been very clear with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, with respect to air pollutants, that we will regulate, working with the United States.

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

As a result, combined emissions of six common air pollutants have dropped by about 70 percent nationwide since the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutanair pollutants have dropped by about 70 percent nationwide since the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutanAir Act, which regulates U.S. emissions of hazardous air pollutanair pollutants.

But the Clean Air Act, which the Obama administration used as the legal mechanism for the plan, mandates that the federal government regulate carbon dioxide emissions because the EPA has already declared it to be a pollutant, said David Goldston, government affairs director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Feb. 8, 2008), as the Act removed oil and coal - fired electric utility steam generating units (EGUs) from the list of sources of hazardous air pollutants and instead regulated the emissions through a cap - and - trade program.

Key Issues for Discussion and Comment in the ANPR: Descriptions of key provisions and programs in the CAA, and advantages and disadvantages of regulating GHGs under those provisions; How a decision to regulate GHG emissions under one section of the CAA could or would lead to regulation of GHG emissions under other sections of the Act, including sections establishing permitting requirements for major stationary sources of air pollutants; Issues relevant for Congress to consider for possible future climate legislation and the potential for overlap between future legislation and regulation under the existing CAA; and, scientific information relevant to, and the issues raised by, an endangerment analysis.

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Jackson was also asked about the EPA's finding last week that carbon dioxide emissions are a danger to public health, which triggers the process of regulating the pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Nearly three years after the US Supreme Court found that carbon dioxide could be defined as an air pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency has completed a key prerequisite to opening the door to regulating emissions of six different greenhouse gases (CO2 being the primary onair pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency has completed a key prerequisite to opening the door to regulating emissions of six different greenhouse gases (CO2 being the primary onAir Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency has completed a key prerequisite to opening the door to regulating emissions of six different greenhouse gases (CO2 being the primary one).

What the EPA does not communicate clearly to the public, however, is that none of these health benefits come from decreasing carbon dioxide emissions to avoid global warming, but from coincidental benefits (or «co-benefits») from reducing other air pollutants which the EPA already heavily regulates.

When an air pollutant is listed, the Act requires States to regulate emissions to prevent pollution from exceeding EPA standards.»

75 Greenhouse gases would become «regulated air pollutants» the moment any EPA regulation controlling greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles took effect.

Usually when the EPA regulates pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the agency sets an emissions limit for each facility.

The Supreme Court ruled greenhouse gases are air pollutants and the EPA may regulate their emission and required the EPA to provide justification to avoid regulations of carbon dioxide.

Air pollution emissions (especially SO2 and CO2) are under - regulated, and increased environmental regulation of these pollutants would benefit the US economy (not to mention public health, both nationally and internationally).

The states argued that they can regulate carbon emissions as a tailpipe pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

• Won a key 2007 victory on greenhouse gas vehicle emissions when the nation's highest court sided with our coalition and struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is required to regulate emission of pollutants that «endanger public health and welfare.»