Sentences with phrase «warming pollution standards»

The EPA established global warming pollution standards of 250 grams per mile, on average, for model year (MY) 2016 vehicles.

The agreement grew out of the new fuel efficiency standards passed by Congress in 2007, the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which precipitated global warming pollution standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act, and global warming pollution standards enacted in California and subsequently adopted by 13 other states and the District of Columbia.

In 2009, a historic agreement between the Federal Government, state regulators, and the auto industry established a national program to implement these first meaningful fuel efficiency improvements in over 30 years and the first - ever global warming pollution standards for light - duty vehicles.

Not exact matches

As part of the Renewable Fuels Standard, EPA will attempt to determine the global warming pollution associated with fuel from plants

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

When a community is economically and systematically linked to the root cause of global warming, any threat to the system — from federal pollution rules to the basic tenets of the scientific method — could be viewed as an obscene violation of «community standards,» and thus something to shield schoolkids from.

Considering Californians drive some 320 billion miles every year, these standards help ensure significantly less pollution, fewer global warming emissions, and fuel savings at the pump — and they're already working.

Setting strong global warming pollution and fuel efficiency standards will deliver critical oil savings, emissions reductions, and relief at the pump.

These standards will reduce America's consumption of oil, save consumers money at the gas pump, and protect public health and the environment by curbing global warming pollution.

In the House, two veteran Democrats - John Dingell of Michigan, who chairs the Energy Committee, and Rick Boucher of Virginia - are pushing a proposal with more modest fuel - economy standards and a provision to remove the states» authority over global warming pollution from vehicles.

In California — where transportation is the largest source of global warming pollution — several key policies are in place to gradually transform vehicles and the fuels they use, including the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (or LCFS) and California's Cap - and - Trade Program.

Subjects covered include global warming, mercury, air pollution, the Endangered Species Act, MTBE, and CAFE standards.

The bill preserves key Clean Air Act tools for sources not in the program, and it calls on EPA to continue setting tough emission standards to reduce global - warming pollution from cars and trucks.

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.

California, the nation's largest market for transportation fuel, is developing a Low Carbon Fuel Standard that will require fuel providers to demonstrate reductions in global warming pollution per unit of energy delivered, regardless of fuel source.

For example, low - carbon fuel standards require a reduction in the average amount of global warming pollution per gallon of fuel.

It doesn't matter; non-AGW scientists are «proving a negative» since they indulged AGW without requiring proponents prove it as an alternative hypothesis by standard methods, and so now they attribute EVERYTHING to global warming — that's why now they call it «Climate Change,» i.e. since now they claim that hot and cold are caused by human pollution; i.e. they keep moving the goalposts so that everything's a touchdown.