Sentences with phrase «renewable fuel regulations»

Either way, Syncrude argued, the federal renewable fuels regulation improperly trenched on matters falling under exclusive provincial jurisdiction.

Syncrude tried to characterize the renewable fuels regulation as an economic measure aimed at the establishment of a local market for renewable fuels, or a measure improperly directed at non-renewable natural resources.

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It came with a suite of complementary policies that included a low - carbon fuel regulation, a ban on coal - fired electricity and a private sector power call for clean and renewable electricity.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailBritish Columbia's Ministry of Energy and Mines yesterday confirmed that it would leave the province's Renewable and Low Carbon Fuel Requirements Regulation unchanged in the wake of a year - long review.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

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But EPA's draft regulation refused to take a position on the controversial issue of whether corn - based ethanol or soybean - derived biodiesel actually qualifies as a «renewable fuel» under this standard.

The technology could also supply a source of renewable jet fuel required by recent European Union aviation emission regulations.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

By federal and state regulation, nearly all gasoline sold by retailers in the US has up to 10 % ethanol blended into it to comply with the US Renewable Fuel Standards as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act.

On one hand, the downturn may give policymakers the incentive to obscure the costs of climate regulation, leading to the adoption of a patchwork of regulatory requirements, a low carbon fuel mandate, a renewable portfolio standard, and other measures that would be significantly more costly than a simple price on carbon.

The top priorities of environmental groups have for 20 years been higher fuel economy standards, new efficiency regulations, renewable portfolio standards, and greenhouse gas limits.

The regulation has been softened since but still operates to push renewable projects to more remote areas where they can compete with high - cost fuel like diesel, and makes them uncompetitive in areas like Java where they compete with low - cost, abundant coal.

It's the wrong path for America — a path also defined by administration policies that have resulted in declining oil and natural gas production on federal lands, an onslaught ofunnecessary regulation and continuation of the harmful Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

This is a regulation from EPA that forces states to reduce fossil fuel use in their electricity generation in favor of «renewables» such as wind and solar (but not hydro, which most environmental groups dislike, of course), whether they want to or not.

The thrust of the roadmap paper puts the onus squarely on fossil fuel management to respond properly to how growing climate regulation, advances in cleaner technology, cheaper renewables, and greater energy efficiency hit demand and the implications those global trends have for commodity prices.

In November 2012, EPA received two petitions for a reconsideration of the September 27, 2012 rulemaking entitled «Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: 2013 Biomass - Based Diesel Renewable Fuel Volume» which established a volume requirement of 1.28 billion gallons for biomass - based diesel in 2013 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a final rule to expand the definition of heating oil in the regulations for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.

The exclusion in subparagraph (A) shall end, and the Administrator shall issue a regulation by the same date that shall include emissions from indirect land use changes outside the renewable fuel's feedstock's country of origin for purposes of calculating a renewable fuel's lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions to determine whether the fuel meets a definition in paragraph (1) or complies with paragraph (2)(A)(i) for renewable fuels sold in the calendar year following the year of the positive determination.

Proposal amending certain provisions of the renewable fuels standard (RFS2) program regulations.

Civil society, governments and business communities must accept that if we do not change the way we live on this planet and do something to reduce drastically the carbon footprint and increase dramatically access to renewable energy now through tougher regulations and an overhaul of the fossil fuel industry (stop subsidizing the polluters and begin funding the human solutions to climate change), the planet will continue to change in devastating ways.

Those include not only the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations but also the Renewable Fuel Standard, sub-rosa carbon regulations like the Utility MACT Rule (which effectively bans the construction of new coal power plants), California's EPA - awarded power to meddle in fuel - economy regulation, California's cap - and - trade program and low - carbon fuel standard, the Northeast States» regional greenhouse gas regulatory compact (RGGI), and State renewable portfolio standarRenewable Fuel Standard, sub-rosa carbon regulations like the Utility MACT Rule (which effectively bans the construction of new coal power plants), California's EPA - awarded power to meddle in fuel - economy regulation, California's cap - and - trade program and low - carbon fuel standard, the Northeast States» regional greenhouse gas regulatory compact (RGGI), and State renewable portfolio standards (RFuel Standard, sub-rosa carbon regulations like the Utility MACT Rule (which effectively bans the construction of new coal power plants), California's EPA - awarded power to meddle in fuel - economy regulation, California's cap - and - trade program and low - carbon fuel standard, the Northeast States» regional greenhouse gas regulatory compact (RGGI), and State renewable portfolio standards (Rfuel - economy regulation, California's cap - and - trade program and low - carbon fuel standard, the Northeast States» regional greenhouse gas regulatory compact (RGGI), and State renewable portfolio standards (Rfuel standard, the Northeast States» regional greenhouse gas regulatory compact (RGGI), and State renewable portfolio standarrenewable portfolio standards (RPS).

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

Climate change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.

This is an interesting discussion: subsidies for renewables versus carbon tax versus (my personal preference) upstream regulation of the fossil fuel industry to drive the development of carbon capture.

Declaring «We've thrown a pitchfork in the sand,» Peterson wants «wants a full markup to alter what he and other [ag] committee Democrats think are inadequate provisions on everything from fuel standards to renewable energy definitions to regulations governing the trading of carbon derivatives created through a cap - and - trade system,» The Hill reports.

Potential examples of this — depending upon the details of the regulations — include: first, AB 32 cap - and - trade combined with Federal cap - and - trade (H.R. 2454) or combined with some U.S. Clean Air Act performance standards; second, state limits on GHGs / mile combined with Federal CAFE standards; and third, state renewable fuels standards combined with a Federal RFS, or state renewable portfolio standards combined with a Federal RPS.

EPA announced today proposed regulations to implement the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) for 2011 but said the goal of 250 million gallons of cellulosic biofuels can not be met.

The tax extenders allow states to meet pending CO2 regulations almost exclusively with zero - emitting renewables, leaving the country well positioned for deeper cuts down the road rather than a greater reliance on fossil fuel — fired power.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

The agency is currently working on regulations for the oil and gas sector, and is finalizing new annual regulations for the nation's ethanol mandate and renewable fuel blending requirements.

My more naive students are like this; my task is, by the end of the semester, to make them aware that regulation creates winners and losers and, by attacking «fossil fuel interests» you are actually supporting other business interests (nuclear, gas, renewables, carbon traders, etc).

Provided advice and guidance in the management of the US Government Renewable Fuel Standards and how to benefit from those rules and regulations.