Sentences with phrase «regulating air pollutants»

The Senate amendment prohibits EPA from regulating air pollutants under § 111 (d) if those are listed as HAPs under § 112 (b).

«It's nasty stuff,» said Dmitri Stanich, a spokesman for the California Air Resources Board, which regulates air pollutants.

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.

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

In its brief in Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA, EPA states that for more than thirty years, it has consistently taken the position that PSD applies to any regulated air pollutant.

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

** Since the Tailpipe Rule makes GHGs regulated air pollutants, major stationary sources of GHGs are subject to PSD and BACT, EPA reasons.

«Carbon dioxide in the air we breathe has no adverse health effects, in contrast to carbon monoxide and high concentrations of the genuine pollutants listed in the Clean Air Act, the source of the EPA's authority to regulate air pollutants.»

EPA reads Section 165 (a)(4) of the Clean Air Act as requiring BACT compliance and PSD permitting for major sources of almost any regulated air pollutant.

Not exact matches

In the case of the U.S., our own Supreme Court has already defined greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act as dangerous pollutants that must be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Air pollutants are the result of impurities in coal that, once burned, can become air - or water - borne hazards, including soot, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury, all of which are regulated in the U.Air pollutants are the result of impurities in coal that, once burned, can become air - or water - borne hazards, including soot, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury, all of which are regulated in the U.air - or water - borne hazards, including soot, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and mercury, all of which are regulated in the U.S..

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.

That filing, which has been called the most important environmental lawsuit ever to go to the Supreme Court, demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency regulate carbon dioxide (CO2) as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act — something the plaintiffs saw as a very reasonable request since the Clean Air Act defines a pollutant as a substance that is damaging to humans.

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.

A known health hazard and contributor to acid rain, sulfur dioxide (SO2) is one of six air pollutants regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Ecosystems provide the most basic provisioning services — food, firewood, and medicines — along with the so - called regulating services of a fully functional environment, which include cleaning the air, purifying water, controlling floods and erosion, storing carbon, and detoxifying pollutants in soils.

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.

«As far back as 1990, Congress listed 189 hazardous air pollutants that it wanted the EPA to regulate, but power plants were not on the list,» he says.

In its first case confronting global warming, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are air pollutants that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate.

But the White House argued that rising carbon dioxide levels worsen the allergens and pollutants that sensitize people to asthma, and that cutting greenhouse gases also cuts particulate pollution, making a compelling case for EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under its health mandate in the Clean Air Act.

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.

Doniger also dismissed the argument that EPA could not regulate carbon under one section of the Clean Air Act because it was already regulating hazardous pollutants under another section — the 112 exclusion.

Some of these particles - PAHs - appear on the United Nation's list of persistent organic pollutants where they are regulated as air pollution.

Carbon dioxide is certainly unlike any other substance EPA has previously regulated as an «air pollutant.»

This language would have been superfluous and without legal effect if, as Waxman assumes, EPA already had authority since 1970 to regulate carbon dioxide as an «air pollutant» or greenhouse gases in general based on their» global warming potential.»

Stress may increase a person's susceptibility to air pollutants by lowering immune system function or affecting the autonomic nervous system, which helps regulate breathing, the authors say.

She asked him to explain his dissent in the 2007 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas emitted by human activities, as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

If a pollutant endangers the climate, the Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate it, which is what EPA is doing.

The US Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that carbon dioxide, for law - making purposes, must be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and can thus be regulated.

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.

For instance, the landmark Massachusetts v. EPA case — which enabled the EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act — began as a public petition filed in 1999.

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What's more, wind and solar plants don't even fall under the domain of the Clean Air Act, he said, as the law only regulates «sources» which emit air pollutanAir Act, he said, as the law only regulates «sources» which emit air pollutanair pollutants.

The case was eventually appealed to the Supreme Court, and in April 2007 the Court ruled that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are pollutants and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act (CAA).

For example, the United States Enviornmental Protection Agency regulates several pollutants affecting air quality but does not currently regulate carbon dioxide, the primary driver of modern climate change.

«The funding limitation will allow Congress to carefully and thoroughly debate a permanent clarification to the Clean Air Act to ensure it remains a strong tool for protecting public health by regulating and mitigating air pollutants, and that it is not transformed into a vehicle to impose a national energy tax,» explains Chairman Whitfield's press releaAir Act to ensure it remains a strong tool for protecting public health by regulating and mitigating air pollutants, and that it is not transformed into a vehicle to impose a national energy tax,» explains Chairman Whitfield's press releaair pollutants, and that it is not transformed into a vehicle to impose a national energy tax,» explains Chairman Whitfield's press release.

It remains unclear whether the EPA will opt for that route, but Republicans could also affect the EPA's ability to regulate carbon by amending the Clean Air Act to remove its jurisdiction over the pollutant.

In 2007, in Massachusetts v. EPA, the US Supreme Court ruled that CO2 qualifies as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and that the EPA must regulate it if it determines it to be a danger to public healair pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and that the EPA must regulate it if it determines it to be a danger to public healAir Act, and that the EPA must regulate it if it determines it to be a danger to public health.

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.

The industry had a willing booster in George W. Bush, who quickly broke his campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant and appointed coal lobbyists to top positions in his administration, granting the industry a long and now familiar wish list of favors, including gutting the Clean Air Act and easing standards for mountaintop mining.

The EPA is preparing to regulate CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, and Congress will likely draft cap - and - trade legislation this year.

The Clean Air Act clearly says that Section 111 can not be used to regulate pollutants emitted from a source category which is already regulated under Section 112.

Thus EPA agrees that CAA section 111 (d)(1)(A) should read «[t] he Administrator shall prescribe regulations which... establish -LSB--RSB- standards of performance for any existing source for any air pollutant... which is not... emitted from a source category which is regulated under section 112.»

But ancillary benefits are still benefits, and the White House has a good reason to hype them given that the legal rationale for the new regulations is rooted in the Clean Air Act, which gave the EPA the authority to regulate pollutants that «endanger public health and welfare.»

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).

DEQ and our partners the Oregon Health Authority are conducting a rulemaking to create new rules to regulate industrial air toxics and reduce the impact these pollutants have on the health of Oregonians.

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.»

Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion, which hinged on an interpretation of administrative law requirements and did not overturn EPA's ability to regulate hazardous air pollutants from power plants.