Sentences with phrase «vehicle emissions rules»

A group of 17 states plan to file a lawsuit in federal appeals court challenging the Trump administration's decision to declare vehicle emissions rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

A trade association representing General Motors (gm), Toyota (tm), Volkswagen (vlkpf) and nine other automakers on Tuesday asked new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to withdraw an Obama administration decision to lock in vehicle emission rules through 2025.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters)- California and a group of 16 other states on Tuesday challenged the Trump administration's decision to revise strict U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules put in place under former President Barack Obama.

The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

The policy that could drive it, he said, is U.S. EPA's rule on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, which California agreed to in a deal with the Obama administration.

McCarthy said the administration will build upon vehicle fuel emissions rules, regulations to reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from refrigeration and air conditioning units, and future proposals to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production, as well as EPA's proposal to cut carbon emissions from the power sector.

Moreover, the EPA denial flies in the face of the Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts, et al v. EPA (CTA Global Warming Case) last year that directs the EPA to develop standards for regulating vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases.

Honda is just one of the many automakers turning to electric vehicles to help them meet stringent new U.S. fuel economy and emissions rules.

Neutered two years ago from the collapse of new - vehicle sales amid a foundering economy, auto makers dropped their historically combative stance over stricter rules and gave over to an historic hike in CAFE in return for a single national tailpipe emissions standard.

It has to sell EVs to meet current and future emissions rules and it needs the stock - pumping respect from Wall Street that technologically advanced vehicles deliver.

When it comes to zero emissions vehicles the state of California will bend its rules for smaller automakers, but only a little.

Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule in 2015 that would have prohibited the conversion of emissions - certified vehicles into race cars.

Against the combined efforts of automakers and the Bush White House, in 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that CO2 is a vehicle emission that the EPA not only can but must regulate.

This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.

In 2007, Bush called on EPA and the departments of Energy, Agriculture, and Transportation to establish emission standards for motor vehicles after the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had an obligation to do so under the Clean Air Act.

«Under the 2012 rules [car companies are] responsible for upstream emissions of power plants for charging EVs [electric vehicles].

New York City is actively taking measures to reduce emissions from our motor vehicles and DEP is doing its part to update and enforce all pertinent rules.

EPA and DOT recently proposed rules to implement the Obama Administration's May announcement that federal standards for fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles would be set to «harmonize» with California's groundbreaking greenhouse gas standards by 2016.

With a proposed rule on light - duty vehicles waiting in the wings, the agency issued today — opening day for the climate talks in Copenhagen — its «endangerment finding» concluding that GHGs pose a threat to both public health and welfare, tests required under the Clean Air Act in order to regulate emissions from point sources, such as power plants, manufacturing plants, and vehicles.

The US Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged the role of aviation emissions in causing global warming, and said it will develop rules in line with ICAO regulation to reduce emissions from the industry, as it has done for vehicles and power plants.

Support from the trade group undermines a conservative critique of the EPA's rule on greenhouse gas emissions for vehicles.

According to the Tailpipe Rule, CO2 emissions due to air conditioner - related loads on automobile engines account for 3.9 % of total passenger car greenhouse gas emissions, and various technologies could reduce air conditioner - related CO2 emissions by 10 % to 30 %.51 A 30 % reduction of the 3.9 % of motor vehicle emissions associated with air conditioner engine load would decrease fuel consumption by only 1.1 %.

This paper assesses EPA's rule setting standards for motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

Although black carbon from motor vehicles is already regulated under vehicle PM emission rules due to known PM health effects, such regulations still permit substantial BC emissions, and the climate effects of such emissions are significant.

Together they mark «the biggest improvement in global - warming emissions from vehicles that we've ever seen,» said Don Anair, a senior engineer at the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists, which helped shape the rules, in an interview.

A total of 18 states, representing 45 percent of the nation's auto market, have either adopted or pledged to implement California's proposed tailpipe emissions rules, which seek to cut vehicles» greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent between 2009 and 2016.

The new mileage standard mandated by Congress is aimed at reducing gasoline consumption, which will reduce vehicles» overall «carbon footprint,» but California's rules would target total greenhouse gas emissions, including those that stem from auto air conditioning units.

In addition, the Endangerment Rule authorizes or obligates EPA to establish: (1) greenhouse gas emission standards for heavy trucks, marine vessels, aircraft, locomotives, and other non-road vehicles and engines; (2) greenhouse gas performance standards for potentially dozens of industrial source categories; and, (3) national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for greenhouse gases set below current atmospheric concentrations.

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Ottawa has moved with the United States on tougher vehicle - efficiency standards: It is promising to introduce sector - by - sector emission rules but has been slow to do so.

The administration has been meeting for weeks with California representatives and car manufacturers to broker a deal in which the state could ascertain the ability to regulate auto emissions, when Carol Browner (assistant to the climate on energy and climate) began advocating a national set of rules: «The hope across the administration is that we can have a unified national policy when it comes to cleaner vehicles,» Browner said, according to the Washington Post.

After all, the worry many have is that if Japan does not renew the protocol then other parties will follow, and given the implementation rules of the treaty, without a sufficient number of parties, it would not continue as a vehicle for binding emission cuts in the future.

A federal judge in Vermont ruled in September that the state rules do not conflict with federal mileage standards, and a Fresno court in December found that both California and the EPA are empowered to set limits on vehicle emissions.

Smog rules: Texas requires residents with vehicles two to 24 years old to have emissions testing every year as part of the registration process.

Smog rules: In Philadelphia you must have a vehicle (model year 1975 or newer) tested for emissions before registering and annually after that.

Smog rules: In Pittsburgh you must have a vehicle (model year 1975 or newer) tested for emissions before registering and annually after that.