Sentences with phrase «rules on carbon pollution»

«We're concerned that — for example — the forthcoming rules on carbon pollution could get weakened to the point where they don't really produce the changes in the energy sector that can and should be made,» says David Hawkins of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

«Your Administration can point to important areas where it is making real progress towards sustainability — including making major new investments in renewable energy, promulgating EPA rules on carbon pollution from power plants, and proposing to reduce fossil fuel subsidies, among others,» the letter reads.

Not exact matches

To build on this progress, the Obama Administration is putting in place tough new rules to cut carbon pollution — just like we have for other toxins like mercury and arsenic — so we protect the health of our children and move our economy toward American - made clean energy sources that will create good jobs and lower home energy bills.

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.

In addition to the text of the proposed rule, EPA issued a Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Clean Power Plan, 4 along with numerous technical supporting documents and fact sheets.5 In October 2014, EPA issued a notice of data availability, which provided discussion and solicited additional comment on several topic areas, including the 2020 - 29 compliance trajectories.6 Also in October 2014, EPA issued a supplemental proposal to address carbon pollution from affected power plants in Indian Country and U.S. territories.7 In November 2014, EPA issued an additional technical support document providing examples of how a state could translate its rate - based goal into an equivalent mass - based goal, expressed in metric tons of CO2.8 In November 2014, EPA also issued a memo addressing biogenic CO2 emissions from stationary sources that explicitly relates this topic to the implementation of the Clean Power Plan.9

The European Commission has proposed to continue to exempt all flights to and from Europe from paying for their pollution under the EU's carbon market rules, following an international agreement on aviation emissions.

The new EPA rules could encourage carbon - trading programs on the East and West Coasts, in which the government issues tradable and salable permits for carbon pollution to current polluters, then over time ratchets down the amount of carbon allowed under each permit.

The injunction — which freezes the mandate to reduce carbon pollution from the US power grid pending an appeals court ruling, presumably followed by an appeal to the high court — came on a 5 - 4 vote, just days before Justice Antonin Scalia's unexpected death roiled the national political climate.

Because of the tight limits on carbon pollution called for in the proposed rule, using CCS would become the only way to build any new coal - fired power plants, a restriction coal advocates have said will effectively kill the industry.

The president's proposed rules, which were dubbed the «Clean Power Plan» when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally announced them on June 2, would set new state - by - state carbon pollution reduction goals in the power sector.

The benefits go beyond reducing carbon pollution too, with the rules projected to save car owners on average more than $ 8,000 over the life of the vehicle and help create 570,000 jobs.