Sentences with phrase «with utility regulation»

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Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

What claims to be the world's largest single market is shot through with regulation that protects favored players in sectors such as banking, utilities and transport.

Virginia's largest utility described how it will generate power to comply with regulations and meet customer needs between 2019 and 2033 in a regulatory filing called an integrated resource plan.

In January, a federal appeals court ruled that because ISPs are not regulated as utilities, equal access regulations could not apply to these providers, as they do with telecommunications carriers under the Communications Act of 1934.

Initially, it was thought that the new regulations would be rolled out in the first half of 2015, but with the possibility of further legal entanglements on the horizon, especially having to do with the President's stance of reclassifying broadband as a common utility under the Telecommunications Act, the issue may not be resolved so quickly.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Current concepts of national sovereignty are not well suited to the orderly regulation of these advances nor to their development for maximum utility with minimum conflict.

The mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, frustrated with the pace of regulation - skirting in Pennsylvania, took up the cause of illegality with fervor, proclaiming, «I will not let the governor and the Public Utility Commission shut down innovation without a fight.

Scott Segal, executive director of the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, which represents utility interests in Washington, said Bloomberg's findings about the effect of the new EPA rule on coal plants are «very consistent» with what his group concluded in its own review of the regulation.

The investor - owned utility trade group Edison Electric Institute supports the idea of developing a replacement carbon regulation if EPA follows through with rescinding the Clean Power Plan as expected.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with the help of water utilities, environmentalists and chlorine manufacturers, recently proposed a regulation that would reduce the chlorine concentrations in drinking water to assure that the disinfectant does not approach unsafe levels.

-- 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.

This included IL2RA, where allele - specific expression analyses were consistent with its interaction - mediated regulation, illustrating the utility of the approach.

After fighting off federal regulation 2004 - 2008, health insurers did a deal with the devil, deciding that it would be better to be health utilities than dead.

The main concern as with a lot of utilities I looked at is that they're 50 % dependent on coal as an energy source and more regulations are totally coming.

== carpooling (by state, by city, by company) == bicycle commuters seeking safe «parking» == scheduled drop off points for e-waste == e-address for companies willing to collect used cooking oil == inventory of recycling regulations, by zip code == e-address of every environmental oversight bureaucrat == e-address of every congress critter... along with their voting record on applicable legislation == list current incentives of various utilities to turn in old applicances by consumers buying, newer more efficent applicances

Government must also change utility regulations so that profits do not depend on selling ever more energy, but instead increase with efficiency.

More Information: Further details of Mr. Vaad's deep and substantive ties with ALEC, details of IRS 501 (c)(3) tax fraud charges filed against ALEC by Common Cause and ALEC model legislation calling for repeal of state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Colorado PUC

The industry hopes to work with the administration and Congress «to forge workable regulations,» said Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, a trade group representing investor - owned utilities, in June.

However, it is understood current regulations in the US prevent the company from a full launch of the business model as it is in Germany, with the Mandalay deal only possible through a master planning - type arrangement with local utilities, grid and regulatory representatives.

He has also developed expertise in rate making and utility regulation while working with The Brattle Group, a leading economic consulting firm, and Opower.

Implementing those regulations along with other EPA regulations — such as the utility MACT rule, Cross State Air Pollution rule, coal ash regulations, and national ambient air quality standards — would make building a new coal plant extremely difficult, while significantly decreasing the lifespan of existing plants.

BHI's reports mirror ALEC's model legislation attacking the Clean Power Plan, which was discussed at fossil fuel - funded events attended by Berman's partners and representatives from coal, oil, gas, and utility companies with a financial interest in blocking the EPA's new regulations.

-- 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.

And many of the 18 actions on community solar, along with 8 actions on third - party solar ownership laws or regulations, and 4 actions on utility ownership of distributed solar were also aimed at finding new ways to use solar to meet grid needs.

-- The Secretary, in consultation with States, shall promulgate regulations to ensure that an electric utility that is subject to the requirements of this section and is subject to a State renewable energy standard receives renewable energy credits if --

Utilities should consider a strategy that deploys cheaper power generation technologies to minimise the risk of being caught flat - footed by regulators, should regulation catch up with prevailing economics.

In this note we provide the first long - term outlook for utility scale wind and solar with the tax extenders in place and discuss the implications for compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) power sector CO2 regulations, also known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP).

Students will come away from this class with an understanding of how public utility regulation interacts with environmental law to facilitate the efforts of states (like California) to decarbonize the electric grid, and to inhibit those efforts in other ways.

Michaels» web publication, World Climate Report, and its skeptical predecessors have been heavily funded by coal and electric utility industries with a large financial stake in preventing regulation of greenhouse emissions.

The regulations being crafted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), expected to go into force next April and November 2011 in accordance with the Clean Air Act, are part of a long ratcheting back of mercury, acid rain, and smog - forming emissions from utility smokestacks.

NRDC, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, UCS, and myriad state and local groups have spent 50 years frightening the public with pseudo-science, suing utilities, subsidizing the competition, and winning regulations that do nothing for plant safety.

State - level changes coincide with federal push for looser coal ash regulation — even as utility shareholders and activists push for more stringent management.

What this field needs now is a lot of great science like that done by Gottesman's team, extending the utility and comprehension of nano - technology, combined with strict regulations that allow only those nano - products which are truly justified by the benefits even though the risks are not fully understood.

When the administration of Bush II decided that it wasn't going to regulate CO2 emissions in the electric utility sector, it also postponed an important debate over the form those regulations will ultimately take, a debate with key implications for climate equity.

Alpha said its actions «are being triggered by persistent weakness in U.S. and overseas coal demand and depressed price levels, along with government regulations that are causing electric utilities to close coal - fired power plants and forgo new construction.»

Zimmet advises on federal regulation and restructuring of the electric utility industry, with a particular focus on electric reliability matters.

Ligia specialises in European law, with a particular focus on competition law, public procurement, telecommunications law and utilities regulation.

SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan led by Arlene Maneja, acted for Manila Electric Company, the largest utility distributor in the Philippines, on complying with the new competitive selection process (CSP) regulations issued by the Energy Regulatory Commission.

This commenter argued that the privacy regulations should not mandate that a covered entity provide information with unknown validity or utility directly to patients.

Regulations will only continue to benefit how cryptocurrencies can be used interchangeably with regular fiat currencies, greatly increasing their utility.

The platform will support both utility and security tokens, and it will help startups comply with SEC regulations governing securities offerings.

There is a lot of hype and apprehensions with regard to cryptos in terms of their utility, transparency, and regulation.

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¥ Comprehensive experience supervising and maintaining municipal utility systems ¥ Substantial knowledge of water plant treatment operating procedures ¥ Strong ability to manage and track operating and maintenance expenses ¥ Familiar with EPA water quality policies and regulations ¥ Ability to keep detailed records to ensure quality ¥ Solid ability to manage and train staff

Northeast Utilities System — Connecticut Light & Power (Newtown, CT) 2005 — 2006 Associate Engineer — System Projects • Performed cost benefit analysis to determine feasibility of alternative construction projects • Created detailed project sketches to assist line technicians in project completion • Responsible for pole inspections to identify damaged devices and determine project scope • Oversaw and verified equipment and material orders to ensure timely project completion • Ensured project compliance with company, industry, and NESC regulations

Results highlighted a) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, a meaningful six - factor model (emotion expression, task utility self - persuasion, help - seeking, negative self - talk, brief attentional relaxation, and dysfunctional avoidance); b) satisfactory internal reliabilities; c) test - retest reliability scores indicative of a satisfactory stability of the measures over time; d) preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with CERS - M being very weakly linked to verbal skill and moderately to emotion regulation strategies measured through the Flemish version of the COPE - questionnaire; e) preliminary evidence of criterion validity, with CERS - M scores predicting math anxiety, and to a lesser extent, students» performance; f) preliminary evidence of incremental validity, with the CERS - M predicting math anxiety and performance over and above emotion regulation measured by the COPE - questionnaire.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article describes the feasibility, utility and efficacy of Attachment, Self - Regulation and Competency (ARC)[now called Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC)- Client], in 2 residential treatment settings serving female youth with histories of complex childhood trauma.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article describes the feasibility, utility and efficacy of Attachment, Self - Regulation and Competency (ARC)[now called Attachment Regulation, and Competency (ARC)-RSB- in 2 residential treatment settings serving female youth with histories of complex childhood trauma.

Results highlighted a) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, a meaningful six - factor model (emotion expression, task utility self - persuasion, help - seeking, negative self - talk, brief attentional relaxation, and dysfunctional avoidance); b) satisfactory internal reliabilities; c) test - retest reliability scores indicative of a satisfactory stability of the measures over time; d) preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with CERS - M being very weakly linked to verbal skill and moderately to emotion regulation strategies measured through the Flemish version of the COPE - questionnaire; e) preliminary evidence of criterion validity, with CERS - M scores predicting math anxiety, and to a lesser extent, students» performance; f) preliminary evidence of incremental validity, with the CERS - M predicting math anxiety and performance over and above emotion regulation measured by the COPE - questionnaire.