The bill, from Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) targets the EPA, and most of the coverage has focused on its attempt to stop the agency from setting greenhouse gas standards.
Following the announcement, Ceres, a national coalition of investors and public interest organizations, released a report detailing what stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards would mean for the U.S. economy.
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However, in order to meet European Union greenhouse gas emission standards, Poland is planning to switch a substantial part of its electricity production from coal to natural gas.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) have formally announced their joint proposal to set stronger fuel economy and greenhouse gas pollution standards for model year 2017-2025 passenger cars and light-duty trucks.
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If we had European gas-mileage standards, that would be the case now.
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Already Jenkins has been doing some basic (by gas or electricity standards) arbitrage plays such as contracting for capacity at known chokepoints in the national telecommunications grid to take advantage of price spikes, as well as selling short in areas with a looming glut.
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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Why hold coal boilers and gas turbines to different standards for those pollutants?
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Another problem is that the RSPO has struggled to create any effective action on setting standards for greenhouse-gas emissions associated with palm-oil plantations.
Under his tenure as governor, New Mexico has set some of the country's toughest greenhouse-gas reduction mandates and renewable-energy standards.
Rolling back the planned increases in the CAFE standards in exchange for higher gas taxes is a good policy trade conservatives should be willing to make.
American Electric will utilize the pipeline to fuel its power plants, which will be converted from coal-fired to natural gas in order to comply with tightening environmental standards.
The rooms are very large by hotel standards, even the smallest, with gas fireplaces, well-stocked mini-bars that are complimentary for snacks and non-alcoholic drinks, swank bathrooms with walk-in showers and soaking tubs and heated marble floors.
The primary emissions reductions over the next four years will come from installing more natural gas to replace coal, implementing the higher CAFE standards, rolling out more fully electric cars and beginning to install smart grid components.
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.
Putinism has been propped up by high and rising prices for oil and gas, which have underpinned high economic growth and rising living standards.
By concentrating on areas where considerable progress is possible (rather than on such neuralgic issues as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or increased CAFE fuel-efficiency standards), America - and in particular its gas-guzzling transportation sector - could be made significantly less reliant on oil supplied by unstable or hostile regimes.
Rolling back coal-related rules and regulations while asking natural gas-and-nuclear-fired power plants to meet stricter standards is not realistic.
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Moreover, almost all of the gas-fired power plants that will be built will meet these standards without any additional costs.
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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.
Yet he pushes for new federal safety standards guaranteed to delay new fracturing projects and leave natural gas firms with large compliance costs.
Natural gas as a feedstock for chemicals production is now, by the standards of the rest of the world, hugely cheap: yet global chemicals prices are high as a result of the high oil price.
The EPA last year issued the first-ever standards to control smog- and soot-forming gases from gas wells site, and updated existing rules to reduce cancer-causing pollution, such as benzene, from other equipment.
Ghana, on the cusp of exploiting its oil and gas wealth, as well as offering a relatively stable model of governance by African standards, is an appealing prospect for the state-backed school.
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While gas is down 25% since the summer, the pump price remains high by recent standards, and the Consumer Confidence Index has wobbled down since spring.
Brownstein noted that extensive oil and gas fracking is already taking place in many states and that it makes sense to improve standards in those places in every way possible.
Orbach says that switching from coal to natural gas can have a more profound impact on carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions than certain renewable standards.
But the new standards will likely require auto companies to develop more hybrids, plug-ins and natural gas vehicles, while using more lightweight materials and improving traditional gasoline engines.
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And one reason is because we increased fuel-efficiency standards on cars and trucks so that they will go twice as far on a gallon of gas.
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