Sentences with phrase «state clean air»

PGE was originally set to invest more than a half billion dollars in pollution controls (scrubbers) by 2017 to comply with EPA and state clean air regulations, then keep it running until 2040.

Subtitle C: Coal and Related Programs -(Sec. 431) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Secretary to implement a financial assistance program to facilitate production and generation of coal - based power through the deployment of clean coal electric generating equipment and processes that improve energy efficiency or environmental performance consistent with relevant federal and state clean air requirements.

Yates also has been in violation of a state clean air plan for almost three years.

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That state's powerful regulator, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), given extraordinary powers under the federal Clean Air Act, led the U.S. to adopt stringent NOx restrictions.

This approach recognizes that Americans have an equal right to clean air and water, no matter where they live, and allows states to compete for business without having to sacrifice public health or environmental quality.

Despite the President's federal agenda, California — which has the largest automobile market in the country — can set its own standards thanks to a waiver in the Clean Air Act, which grants the state considerable influence over the auto industry, the Times reports.

The states argue that the EPA acted arbitrarily and capriciously, failed to follow its own regulations, and violated the Clean Air Act.

Reuters has reported the draft would assert that a 1975 law bars California from imposing its own state emissions rules, as it has long done nonetheless under a series of Clean Air Act waivers.

«What Tesla is doing is an all - in strategy to bring the clean - air revolution to the state.

Beyond a century of collective franchising experience and among a host of key factors is a serious focus on: 1) Bright, clean and fresh - aired stores; 2) Smart store layouts; 3) State - of - the - art inventory managing, pricing and point of sale cloud - based software systems; and 4) a firm grasp on all the «big data» needed to make wise purchase and sell decisions throughout the day — every day.

She seemed to hope that by mentioning growing up on a farm, incoherently praising the Clean Air Act, and proposing that states take over environment regulation she would be able to muddle through to the next question.

«Working with Harvard Forest and the state Division of Conservation Services, Mass Audubon will be able to further enhance a landscape of wetlands and forests that support clean air and water while providing recreation opportunities that encourage people to connect with nature.»

(d) It further is the policy of the United States that, to the extent permitted by law, all agencies should take appropriate actions to promote clean air and clean water for the American people, while also respecting the proper roles of the Congress and the States concerning these matters in our constitutional republic.

Cuomo said the new law closes a «dangerous loophole» in the state's Clean Indoor Air Act, which limits cigarette smoking in public places.

To settle a Clean Air Act lawsuit brought by the state attorney general's office, NRG agreed last year to shut down four of its units at Tonawanda and to reduce its sulfur dioxide emissions by 80 percent.

In his latest lawsuit against the Trump administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing over a minimum one - year delay by the EPA in enacting tougher clean air standards pertaining to smog.

This year, the governor set goals to ensure clean air and water that include the Clean Water Infrastructure Act, set to invest $ 2 billion in water infrastructure throughout the sclean air and water that include the Clean Water Infrastructure Act, set to invest $ 2 billion in water infrastructure throughout the sClean Water Infrastructure Act, set to invest $ 2 billion in water infrastructure throughout the state.

State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and 13 other attorneys general from various states and the District of Columbia filed on Thursday a notice to sue the federal agency to force it to comply with those requirements set by the Clean Air Act.

The lawsuit details claims by LI Clean Tech that the state economic development agency and the state Department of Transportation kept Talon Air's competitors as well as the public, local residents and the airport's commission in the dark while the contract was steered to Talon.

The state energy officials argued that the financing arrangement is fair, saying that New Yorkers will benefit by cleaner air overall and hopefully, slower climate change, by extending the life of the nuclear plants.

The lawsuit also accuses the state of changing the kind of development sought from commercial, which is a specialty of LI Clean Tech, to aviation use, which is a specialty of Talon Air.

States are also under pressure to reduce air pollution from power sources under the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan.

Other supporters, including the League of Women Voters and Citizens Union, said new rights could be added to the state's constitution, including the right to clean water and clean air and equal rights for women, LGBTQ people and disabled New Yorkers.

New York state and local officials have called repeatedly on the U.S. Department of Defense to take responsibility for cleaning up PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

State AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general, today filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Scott Pruitt, for failing to meet the Clean Air Act's statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone (commonly referred to as sState AG Eric Schneiderman, leading a coalition of 15 state attorneys general, today filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Scott Pruitt, for failing to meet the Clean Air Act's statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone (commonly referred to as sstate attorneys general, today filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its administrator, Scott Pruitt, for failing to meet the Clean Air Act's statutory deadline for designating areas of the country impacted by unhealthy levels of ground - level ozone (commonly referred to as smog).

DEC adopted a rule to allow the State's program to sunset in favor of the federal Clean Air Interstate Rule, which will benefit businesses by eliminating the costs and other burdens of having to comply with two separate but effectively identical programs.

Council Directive 2008 / 50 / EC on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe provides for member states to submit plans to the European Commission to postpone the compliance deadline for meeting the limit value for nitrogen dioxide from 2010 to 2015.

New York State wants to extend the provisions of its 14 - year - old Clean Indoor Air Act to also include e-cigarettes, effectively banning their use in most restaurants, bars and workplaces.

Cuomo's briefing book said the governor would seek to include e-cigarettes under the state's Clean Indoor Air Act, prohibiting people from smoking or «vaping» e-cigarettes anywhere cigarette smoking is already illegal.

This new technology will improve air quality and the reliability of the electric power system here in New York, while lowering energy bills and helping the state further solidify its place as the nation's leader in the clean energy economy,» said Cuomo.

WHEREAS, Erie County has a long history of being at the forefront of protecting our environment, whether it be the passage of the first Clean Indoor Air Act in 1996 or the passage of a law in 2015 Prohibiting the Sale of Personal Cosmetic Products Containing Microbeads, which law became the an impetus to and model for the United States Congress passing, and President Barack Obama signing, the Microbead free - Waters Act of 2015;

Azzopardi denied the clean energy standard was passed without public airing, noting there were 24 public hearings state wide before its passage.

Assemblyman Keith Wright's habit of smoking in Albany's legislative office building has neighbors and staffers fuming, say sources who claim the Harlem Democrat has been flouting the state's Clean Indoor Air Act for years.

«This is living proof that New York state needs the constitutional amendment for clean air, for a clean environment for all New Yorkers.»

Building out the clean energy system will create 4 1/2 million jobs in our state over the next 15 years, far beyond the most outlandish job projections by the fracking industry, but without the costs to air, land, water, and climate and without the damage to existing industries, including agriculture, tourism, and all manufacturers and other businesses that depend on clean water.

«The state has promised hundreds of thousands of dollars to the community to clean the air and they need to follow up with that,» Enck said, stating that the concern of slow progressing results from state and federal organizations like the the EPA or DEC all comes down to a lack of funding.

Work for the Ship Canal Commons project was performed under the Environmental Restoration Program (ERP) authorized by New York state's 1996 Clean Water / Clean Air Bond Act.

I ask both houses of the New York State Legislature and Governor Cuomo follow suit and include e-cigarettes in New York's Clean Indoor Air Law.

It is time for our state legislators to pass the bill including e-cigarettes in the Clean Indoor Air Act.

The paper states: «Even though the ambient air in the city of Jena is comparably clean, the significant association between rapid changes in nitrogen oxides and onset of myocardial infarction (MI) suggests that the current EU statutory limits do not sufficiently protect against effects relating to the cardiovascular health of the population.

GM's earlier attempt faltered To improve air quality and cut down pollution from the nation's existing fleet of 11 million diesel engines, U.S. EPA announced $ 20 million in grant funding yesterday to support clean diesel projects and another $ 9 billion through direct state allocations.

As secretary of State, she helped lead international climate negotiations and she created the Climate and Clean Air Coalition with other countries to reduce climate superpollutants like soot and methane.

In the 1970s, both Europe and the United States adopted the «The clean air act amendments», which required filters in factories, thus reducing acid emissions and this is what we can now see the results of.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition, made up of the United States, Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico and Sweden and led by the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), will target so - called short - lived «climate forcers.»

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteair pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states conteAir Act as industry groups and some states contend.

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

By raising cigarette taxes and strengthening clean indoor air laws, states may not only reduce health detriments related to smoking, but also those related to drinking.»

It builds off the Obama Administration's Clean Energy Standard (CES), first aired in the president's State of the Union address.

He stressed that «in - stack monitoring of power - plant emissions is mandatory in the United States, and they are reported to the EPA to comply with the US Clean Air Act, allowing us to test how well our verification method worked.»

«It is important that Kansas State University students pursue sustainable projects because it is not only good for the environment, but it is good for our health since we benefit from clean air and clean water,» Oldani said.