And like most other major metros, the city must use reformulated gasoline to comply with Environmental Protection Agency regulations, which adds about 10 cents per gallon at retail stations, according to AAA estimates.
Yes, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that economically punish coal power plants are somewhat responsible for the shift to natural gas power, but so too are technological advances and new natural gas discoveries that have dramatically reduced the price of natural gas.
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While Environmental Protection Agency clean air regulations such as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) can explain some of the future expected displacement of coal by natural gas, shale gas economics is a significant reason for the displacement.
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Reforming regulations to strengthen environmental protection without destroying the U.S. coal mining industry.
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Some activists have been urging Obama to bypass the often messy legislative process and instead focus on executive orders and regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Even more rules and regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to inhibit the drilling of petroleum, natural gas and the inevitable extinction of the coal industry.
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The Obama administration has unleashed a massive new regulatory push, with costly new health care regulations, a major expansion by the Environmental Protection Agency that will raise the costs of energy, and a slew of yet unwritten financial services regulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank reform bill.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's drinking-water regulations require that all samples test negative for E.coli.
Mr Beshear directed Kentucky to join a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over its coal-mining regulations.
Though much of their three-day journey was accomplished on foot, their adventure convinced the Environmental Protection Agency to deem the waterway navigable, and thus subject to a variety of environmental regulations.
It oversees regulations throughout the government, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Further complicating the picture for all of these rival energy sources is uncertainty about what kind of new carbon regulations might come from Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has been investigating the practice for years with an eye toward instituting regulations.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which had the job of writing regulations to enforce the 1972 law, expanded the "waters of the United States" definition to include tributaries such as Rock Creek.
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And yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by countless federal regulations.
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