Sentences with phrase «set limits on carbon emissions»

Last week, President Obama announced his plan to reduce carbon pollution in the United States, tasking the EPA with creating a strategy to set limits on carbon emissions from power plants by June 2014.

Proposed actions include the development and finalization of EPA standards that set limits on carbon emissions for both new and existing power plants, improved energy efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, and increased deployment of renewable energy.

Not exact matches

Instead, they argue that Australia should base its climate policy on a carbon budget that sets an upper limit on the country's total emissions between now and 2050, institute a cap - and - trade scheme, consider closing selected coal - fired power plants, and ramp up renewable energy.

Under a cap, government sets a limit on total carbon emissions and issues tradable permits up to the limit.

Setting up limits on carbon emissions and subsidizing alternative energy is the wrong approach, «The Hartwell Paper» argues.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

Current proposals are to set a limit on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse - gas emissions by issuing permits that limit those emissions to entities like power and industrial plants.

These regulations shall take into account the total number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions for which a covered entity is demonstrating compliance temporarily, and may set a limit on this amount.

The Oregon bill would set a gradually declining limit on total carbon emissions in the state from large emitters and auction emissions permits to affected entities.

The number sounds ambitious on the surface, but with the expectation of carbon dioxide emission limits becoming stricter in major markets, one million EVs and plug - in hybrids in nine years is the target VW is setting for itself in order to meet the demands for these cars.

The new agreement will likely lead to a future set of limits allowing Kyoto parties to keep on capping greenhouse - gas emissions and trading carbon credits.

Liu also argued against setting a too - tough long - term goal on reducing carbon emissions, or sharply limiting the number of degrees the planet warms this century, because that would involve huge lifestyle and economic changes.

And in a landmark agreement last month, the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States, agreed on setting new limits to their carbon emissions.

The two, Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, said the United States should set limits on carbon dioxide emissions, much like those Mr. Bush rejected.

By far, the biggest step the administration has taken on climate change is setting strict rules limiting carbon emissions per unit of electricity produced for all new power plants constructed in the United States.

For example, nine states in the Northeast, as part of a regional cap - and - trade program that sets overall limits on carbon and then allows states to trade permits to pollute, have committed to cut emissions by 45 percent during the next year and by another 2.5 percent a year after that until 2020.

He instead focused on his attacks on the Clean Power Plan, which set the first - ever national limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that contribute to climate change.

Together with a final rule setting standards for new power plants, EPA will create the first nationwide limits on carbon emissions from coal and and natural gas power plants, the largest source of emissions in the US economy.

The results echo a similar study undertaken by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, which found that Americans «support setting strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal - fired plants,» by a nearly 2 - to - 1 margin — «even if the cost of electricity to consumers and companies increases.»

These regulations shall take into account the total number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions for which a covered entity is demonstrating compliance temporarily, and may set a limit on this amount.

Yet the plan will set the first national limits on carbon pollution from power plants, which account for 37 percent of total U.S. carbon emissions.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order today (March 28) that dismantles the Clean Power Plan, an Obama - era regulation that would have set limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from power plants.

Years earlier, one climate researcher at the company, Henry Shaw, had called management's attention to a key conclusion of a landmark National Academy of Sciences report: global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions, not a scarcity of supply, would likely set the ultimate limit on the use of fossil fuels.

One could infer that McI would have us believe that without this set of proxies all arguments for limits on carbon emissions are misguided.

The Clean Power Plan sets the nation's first - ever limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions — the primary contributor to global warming — from power plants.

RGGI sets a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from the electric sector and raises money for renewables and efficiency by charging polluting generators for each ton of carbon dioxide they emit.

And unless the US sets a limit on CO2 emissions that creates a market for carbon - reducing technology, there is little financial incentive to invest in such technology, experts say.

There will be new bite in the European Emissions Trading Scheme as tough, new limits for carbon emissions are set; as the carbon price rises, so there will be a further incentive to economise on the use of fossEmissions Trading Scheme as tough, new limits for carbon emissions are set; as the carbon price rises, so there will be a further incentive to economise on the use of fossemissions are set; as the carbon price rises, so there will be a further incentive to economise on the use of fossil fuels.

California's Cap - and - Trade Program sets a collective limit (or «cap») on carbon emissions from transportation and electricity generation, among other sectors.

WASHINGTON — A year after a plan by President Obama to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants set off angry opposition, the administration will announce on Friday that it is not backing down from a confrontation with the coal industry and will press ahead with enacting the first federal carbon limits on the nation's power companies.

California sets state limits on carbon emissions, he said, but «that shouldn't and can't dictate to the rest of the country what these levels are going to be.»

California, which has a waiver under the 1970 Clean Air Act giving it the right to set its own vehicle emissions standards, reached an agreement with the Obama administration and the auto industry that established the first limits on tailpipe carbon emissions.