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.

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Safeway is implementing standards developed with the nonprofit group FishWise.

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Although the ADA is deferential to national governments when it comes to the details of implementing their antidumping laws, it does articulate certain minimum standards intended to limit the scope for abuse, such as reaching affirmative findings of dumping when no dumping has occurred or manufacturing punitively high antidumping duty rates, for example.

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Air quality was addressed first as the country began implementing tighter vehicle emissions standards and new environmental regulations.

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What has struck me though is how after having agreed upon the standards, we seem to be going about the work of implementing the assessments for them backwards.

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Mr Uribe now says he is prepared to delay implementing this part of the reform if that is what it takes to maintain standards of care.

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Michael Finger of the World Bank and Philip Schuler of the University of Maryland estimate that implementing commitments to improve trade procedures and establish technical and intellectual-property standards can cost more than a year's development budget for the poorest countries.

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