Sentences with phrase «regulating point source»

«Most of our tools for managing coastal species and ecosystems — such as marine protected areas and regulating point source pollution — are spatially explicit, and this research illustrates there may be hotspots of vulnerability or resilience that we could protect or manage locally,» she said.

Not exact matches

Although the Clean Water Act strictly regulated point - source pollution, mandating sewage treatment standards, it did not similarly restrict more diffuse sources, such as nutrients delivered by agricultural and suburban runoff.

The NPDES program regulates the discharge of pollutants from point sources to waters of the United States.

With a proposed rule on light - duty vehicles waiting in the wings, the agency issued today — opening day for the climate talks in Copenhagen — its «endangerment finding» concluding that GHGs pose a threat to both public health and welfare, tests required under the Clean Air Act in order to regulate emissions from point sources, such as power plants, manufacturing plants, and vehicles.

I have previously noted that at some point the regulated sources are going to have to rely on non-compliance entities for allowances necessary for compliance (as the cap tightens over time) and it is not clear how the market will react.

If one wants to argue that human CO2 is not causing the increases then one must show that some sort of feedback system exists that regulates the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (i.e. the natural sources / sinks adapt dynamically to ensure that the CO2 level stays at some «set point» which could change over time).