Sentences with phrase «warming pollution regulations»

Tech companies join CEI in spite of the fact that the oil industry - funded front group continues to be one of the most vocal opponents to addressing global warming pollution regulations inside the Beltway.

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In addition to preferentially using warmer - colored LEDs, the study's authors say, the loss of starry skies to light pollution could be forestalled or reversed with stricter regulations on artificial lights as well as the advent of driverless cars, which require less street illumination.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

-LSB-...] The CAA as amended in 1990 does mention «carbon dioxide» and» global warming potential,» but only once, in the context of non-regulatory provisions, and each time followed by a caveat admonishing EPA not to infer authority for «pollution control requirements» or «additional regulation.»

He picked a series of lobbyists and a vice-president at the core of his campaign that will try to prevent serious regulation of man - made global warming pollution if they are elected.

President Obama spent too much political energy backing the traditional environmental stance that human - driven global warming was a conventional pollution problem that could be cleaned up like sewage or smog through regulation.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

Overall, the smog - forming pollution performance of the industry continues to improve in response to new regulations, while global warming pollution performance remains stuck in neutral.

That's partly because of a long campaign by fossil fuel interests to muddy the science on global warming and fight pollution regulation.

Labeling issues such as reduced agricultural productivity, loss of biodiversity, pollution and the looming shortage of fresh water as «impacts of global warming» leaves the public confused and susceptible to propaganda by groups who oppose environmental regulation of any kind.

«The bill declares that current law does not authorize or require the regulation of climate change or global warming and nullifies certain proposed rules relating to greenhouse gas and carbon pollution emissions,» the description reads.

Less cooling from aerosols means there is less masked warming waiting in the wings for when the skies are eventually cleaned by pollution regulation.

AP debunks Obama on climate claims: THE FACTS: «Obama failed to get a global warming bill through Congress when both Houses were controlled by Democrats in 2010» — AP: «With Republicans in control of the House, the chances of a bill to limit the gases blamed for global warming and to create a market for businesses to trade pollution credits are close to zero... And while there are still other ways to address climate change without Congress, it's questionable regulation alone can achieve the reductions needed to start curbing global warming»

Perhaps one of the factors in the cooling that occurred from the 1930s to the 1970s was this aerosol pollution, counteracting the expected warming from CO2 emissions, and the warming since the 1970s is a direct result of air pollution regulations that have decreased emissions of all kinds of particulates.

Suppliers of fossil fuels, which when burned release greenhouse gases, plus manufacturers of engines and vehicles, and facilities that release 25,000 tons or more of any of six heat - trapping gases, all must comply with the regulation, the first by the government on pollution blamed for global warming.

During Obama's second term, it's expected that she will oversee far more sweeping climate change regulations, which would restrict greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing coal - fired power plants — the nation's top contributor to global warming pollution.

He implemented historic improvements in fuel - efficiency standards for automobiles, and instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to move forward on the regulation of global - warming pollution under the Clean Air Act.