Sentences with phrase «state emission reduction goals»

without any mention of the global irrelevance and meaningless of the outcome of achieving these state emission reduction goals.

Not exact matches

The mandate would be another step toward the governor's goal of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions from plants supplying the state's electricity.

The executive order signed by Cuomo on Thursday affirms New York state's climate and clean energy goals, including a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2030 and an 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2050.

And while state officials are confident they'll hit federal emissions reduction goals far ahead of schedule, it will be harder to do so without the state's nuclear power plants.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

According to an analysis done by the council that accompanied the new plan, the carbon tax - and - dividend system would «allow the United States to meet the upper end of its 2025 Paris commitment,» meaning it would achieve the goal of a 28 percent emissions reduction that the U.S. promised under the major international Paris climate agreement.

California is now poised to develop a solution that benefits forest communities and helps the state's businesses meet emissions reductions goals cost - effectively,» said Environmental Defense Fund Tropical Forest Program Director Steve Schwartzman.

Those proposals, announced over the past year, aim to reduce climate change - driving carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants and set power plant CO2 emissions reductions goals for each state.

The declaration states: «In setting a global goal for emissions reductions in the process we have agreed today involving all major emitters, we will consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan which include at least a halving of global emissions by 2050.»

20The modeled trajectory attempts to impose lower carbon reductions in the early compliance years, within the constraints of maintaining the 10 - year average interim emission performance goals, and not require any state to reduce its annual emission performance goal below its final 2030 target in any compliance year.

11/19/17 — Despite its stated goal of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by aggressively pursing clean energy technologies and phasing out fossil fuels, Germany is still burning lots of an especially dirty form of coal and is likely to badly miss its upcoming emission - reduction targets.

Maryland's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Act of 2009 requires the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and directs the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop a plan to accomplish that goal.

However, to truly complement the Paris Agreement, the aviation sector will have to improve upon this foundation — by ramping up its ambition to achieve emissions reductions that are in line with the Paris Agreement's stated goals.

Supports the cap emission reduction and formation of ECR but notes that RGGI States must go further if they are to align with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.

p > On November 15th, Governors of nine Midwestern U.S. states and the Premier of Manitoba signed the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, a new agreement to establish regional goals and initiatives to increase energy security, promote renewable energy, and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Grants are awarded to eligible applicants for implementation of diesel emission reduction projects across the state to achieve public health and air quality goals.

Kerry announced on Saturday in Beijing that China and the United States had agreed to share information on their efforts to combat climate change ahead of 2015 UN-led efforts to set emission reduction goals for after 2020.

The International Road transport Union (IRU), representing the commercial road users of the world, e.g. trucking companies, published a report called «the Commercial Vehicle of the Future» which listed road electrification as the most significant lever to reach the 2050 emission reduction goals and stated that 40 - 45 % of long haul road freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that year.

The report, Assessing the Impact of Potential New Carbon Regulations in the United States, estimates the economic impacts associated with an EPA regulatory regime imposed under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and based on the Obama Administration's emissions reduction goals.

-- The Secretary of Transportation shall establish appropriate requirements, including performance measures, to ensure that transportation plans developed under sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code sufficiently meet the requirements of this section, including achieving progress towards national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.

«(1) whether the programs under Safe Climate Act and other Federal statutes are resulting in sufficient United States greenhouse gas emissions reductions to meet the emissions reduction goals described in section 702, taking into account the use of offsets; and

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, shall promulgate, and update from time to time, regulations to establish national transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, standardized models and methodologies for use in developing surface transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets pursuant to sections 134 and 135 of title 23 of the United States Code and methods for collection of data on transportation - related greenhouse gas emissions.

New York is part of RGGI so there already is a tax (auction proceeds) on electrical generating unit CO2 emissions, there is a Climate Action Plan goal of an 80 % reduction of CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2050, and the State's draft Energy Plan is about to go public.

In these articles extraordinary admissions are noted from the states leaders about the complete lack of knowledge, expertise and experience of the state government needed to achieve these escalated emissions goals demonstrating that these leaders are cavalierly plunging ahead with SB 32 politically driven emissions reduction mandates:

These projects are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4.3 million metric tons - equivalent to taking 49,000 cars off the road for the next 19 years - and help the state achieve its goal of a 40 percent emissions reduction by 2030.

California's politically driven climate alarmist emissions reduction goals are meaningless and completely unnecessary and threaten to produce massive damage to the states economy and to the lives and freedoms of all of its 37 million citizens.

This information will be used to inform the development of policies and regulations to encourage CHP and support the state's GHG emissions reduction goals.

«The bill does take important steps towards lowering transportation - sector emissions by requiring national goals for transportation reductions, as well as state and metro area targets.

The European Union (EU) is unequivocally continuing down a path of global climate and energy leadership while bringing online more carbon - neutral fuel systems throughout its 28 member states, closing in on the 2020 goal of a 20 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from 1990 levels.

Less important structurally, but most important environmentally, an analysis by the World Resources Institute (which I have not validated) indicates that the caps — as currently set — would not bring about emissions reductions by 2020 that would even come close to the President's announced goal of 17 % reductions (equivalent to the Waxman - Markey targets), as submitted by the United States under the Copenhagen Accord.

«We believe that pricing carbon pollution is a necessary step for reaching our state's emission reduction goals,» Mike told the senators.

The text states that to achieve the temperature goal: «Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country Parties, and to undertake rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with best available science, so as to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century».

Similarly, CPP set emissions reduction targets for individual states, but left open the formula for how to meet those goals, whether through retiring dirty power plants, building up renewables, or trading compliance credits with other states.

By diversifying the thermal energy sector to increase use of low - carbon renewable heating and cooling technologies (e.g., air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, wood pellet heating, solar thermal), Rhode Island can make significant strides toward achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction goals while producing substantial economic benefits for the state.

The EIA's projections for carbon reductions estimate that the plan, as it is proposed, will likely realize Obama's stated goal of cutting U.S. CO2 emissions 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

Meeting the emission reduction goals of states within the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) will yield billions of dollars in savings and tens of thousands of new jobs each year for over a decade, according to a Synapse study released today.

The program will further the State's greenhouse gas emission reductions and climate goals by renovating multifamily affordable housing properties to dramatically improve their energy performance.

States, with this flexible guide to goal - setting, will contribute to a national reduction of carbon emissions of a projected 30 % from 2005 levels by 2030.

While there is some degree of coordination among various agencies and processes, the state needs to find better ways to coordinate and streamline the collective responsibilities of those agencies to achieve the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction, environmental protection, and reliability goals while reducing duplicative or contradictory processes.

This higher goal is a key strategy for meeting the state's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

The Energy Commission will work with the Air Resources Board in the development of combined heat and power to meet the state goals for emission reductions from this technology.

Brad Plumer: In the draft version of the Clean Power Plan, each state has its own individual goal for emissions reductions, based on what EPA thinks is possible given the prospects for coal - to - gas switching, renewables, efficiency.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, officially described as the «first market - based regulatory program in the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions» with the goal of a 10 - percent reduction from the power sector by 2018,

If, however, federal agencies fail to capitalize on available reduction opportunities and states fall short on their announced plans to reduce emissions, middleof - the - road or lackluster reductions will result, falling far short of the 17 percent reduction by 2020 goal.

It included a strong editorial, Going Green, stating that in order to reach the «necessarily ambitious goal: 80 percent emission reduction in carbon emissions from their 1990 levels by 2050:

For the United States to minimize long - term energy costs and meet greenhouse gas emission reduction goals, both energy efficiency and renewable energy will need to play a substantial role.