Sentences with phrase «rules on carbon dioxide»
Just hours before, a U.S. judge also issued a landmark ruling in a climate change case brought by eight youth, ruling that State of Washington must reconsider the youth's proposed rule on carbon dioxide emissions.
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For instance, it is not clear if an import tax could vary based on the amount of carbon dioxide emitted during a good's production — WTO rules would have to be interpreted in a way that considers products not to be «like» each other based on their carbon footprints.
The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.
An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.
New rules for reporting methane (and carbon dioxide) emissions that have kicked in for some facilities this year will slowly raise pressure on industry to stanch such leaks.
Although U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with electricity generation have fallen from the 2005 level, they are projected to increase in the coming decades, based on analysis in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) that reflects current laws and regulations, and therefore does not include proposed rules such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.
Today (June 25th) is the deadline for submitting comments on the EPA's proposed Carbon Pollution Standard Rule, which will establish first - ever New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil - fuel electric generating units.
The youth, between 9 and 14 years old, had petitioned the State agency to create a rule mandating reductions of greenhouse gas emissions based on the most current climate science, which says that 350 ppm of carbon dioxide is the maximum level for a safe climate system.
John M. Deutch, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a former director of central intelligence, said there was little point in criticizing oil companies without first establishing federal rules that set a price on carbon dioxide emissions.
Crucial new EPA rules are in the works, including regulations on carbon dioxide from new power plants and, climate hawks hope, existing power plants too.
When US President Obama announced revised regulations on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from US power plants on August 3, 2015 in a laudable speech supporting the new rules, as he predicted opponents of US climate change policy strongly attacked the new rules on grounds that they would wreck the US economy, destroy jobs, and raise electricity prices.
EU toughens rules on global warming EU toughens rules on global warming mongabay.com November 29, 2006 Wednesday the European Commission demanded stricter limits on climate - warming carbon dioxide emissions for the...
On Monday, the U.S. government released the 1,560 - page final rule of its so - called Clean Power Plan, which aims to tackle climate change by reducing heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
«Former Vice President Al Gore should have used this month's «24 Hours of Reality» internet broadcast to encourage the Trump administration to withdraw all carbon - dioxide emission rules on future power stations.
On August 3rd, EPA released the final Clean Power Plan (CPP), a rule that sets performance rates and individual state targets for carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its analysis of EPA's Clean Power Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as a separate case analysis because construction of new nuclear capacity other than what is currently under construction or at risk for retirement is not a major compliance option based on EPA's proposed rule despite nuclear power's zero carbon dioxide emissions.
One of the most damaging legacies of the Obama administration's «war on coal» was the creation of a 2015 rule that limits carbon - dioxide emissions on new coal - fired stations to 1,400 pounds per megawatt - hour of electricity generated.
Adding carbon dioxide reductions on top of MATS and the cross-state rule will make coal - fired power plants to expensive to build and operate.
State incentives could «discourage premature retirement» and «encourage deployment of nuclear unit designs that reflect advances over earlier designs,» wrote the EPA in its proposed carbon dioxide rule, issued by the Obama administration on Monday.
Still, some environmental groups fear that McCain will not respond to climate change aggressively enough and further, might fill vacant positions on the Supreme Court with conservative judges who would overturn last year's ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide under existing laws.