Better vehicle emissions standards, reforestation and a developed carbon trading market would all help.
Everything in the diesel engine business has changed in the past ten years: electronics, globalization, emissions standards.
New federal truck emissions standards are taking effect in 2010, and Cummins sells the cleaner engines needed.
As London has found, it is not enough to simply mandate higher emissions standards for new vehicles.
Air quality was addressed first as the country began implementing tighter vehicle emissions standards and new environmental regulations.
To meet European emissions standards as a company, they need a small to medium car within the group.
So did California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger when he enacted aggressive clean energy and carbon emissions standards for the state.
For all three, it significantly solves the problem of European Union emissions standards.
The new emissions standards are only one of several new standards imposed by the EPA over the past two years.
Most automakers sided with the EPA, saying it would be impractical for each state to dictate its own emissions standards.
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Particularly damaging was an EPA rule finalized in February 2012 that created new emissions standards for coal- and oil-fired electric utilities.
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As States and communities introduce more rigorous emissions standards, NGVs become more appealing for businesses that need to meet the regulations.
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The company said all the vehicles would meet European emissions standards, while some would be low carbon hybrid or gas versions.
That, he argues, is the reason for his other measures, including tighter emissions standards for cars and investment in green technology.
The testing required to demonstrate that a novel engine can meet stringent emissions standards and durability requirements is expensive and time consuming.
Some vehicles still don't need urea it to meet tighter emissions standards.
Beginning this January, all gasoline powered vehicles manufactured, imported or sold in China are required to comply with Euro V emissions standards.
To please environmentalists, he ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to consider letting California set its own emissions standards (ie, stricter ones) for cars.
Today, economics, the U.S. shale gas reserves, advanced technology, and fuel economy and emissions standards are driving natural gas towards historic levels of market penetration.
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And the small deals often enshrine rules such as electrical and emissions standards which vary from region to region, so they make global deals harder to forge.
However, the NS Gold catalyst has proven to be compliant with current European vehicle emissions standards, says the WGC, a market development organization for the gold industry.
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In January, he directed the Environmental Protection Agency to review California's request for a waiver from federal law so that it can set higher tailpipe emissions standards.
Reversing a position that it took during the Bush administration, the EPA on Tuesday granted California's request to impose stricter tailpipe emissions standards than federal law requires.
At the moment, Brazil builds engines to European Union emissions standards, whereas Mexico uses both the EU standards and the United States' different (though no less strict) ones.
To encourage the answer it wants--and to cut back the country's growing oil imports--Beijing has imposed taxes on high-gas-consumption autos, while adopting European auto emissions standards in 2004.
The coal industry may be fighting new federal emissions standards, air-pollution regulations and even the idea of carbon pricing, but those things are all a boon for carbon-free nuclear power.
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In January, 2012 the LEZ emissions standards became more stringent, and tens of thousands of trucks and buses were retrofitted with filters and other systems to enable them to comply.
The fact that 70 percent of the cars made each year in China are made with foreign technology makes implementation and enforcement of emissions standards for passenger cars less problematic.
Also, to comply with prevailing U.S. emissions standards on nitrogen oxides, or NOx, these big diesels require fairly complicated systems of postcombustion treatment with a water-based urea solution, called AdBlue.
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