Latest United States emission standards Stories
Sprint (NYSE: S) is announcing an ambitious goal to reduce its total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 15 percent by 2017, along with a set of environmental priorities, as part of its expanded environmental program. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will recognize Sprint as a "GHG Reduction Goal Setter" during the 2008 Climate Leaders Conference Oct. 6-Oct. 8 in Chicago. Climate Leaders is an EPA industry-government partnership that works with companies to develop comprehensive...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued new standards for small gas-powered engines to reduce pollutants from machines including lawn mowers. The EPA said the new standards are designed to substantially reduce the amount of gas fumes, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and smog-forming pollutants emitted from a wide range of small gas-powered engines. The regulations go into effect in 2010 and 2011. "EPA's new small-engine standards will allow Americans to cut air pollution as...
Following carbon emission trailCarnegie Mellon University researchers are urging companies to embrace new methods for following the trail of dangerous carbon emissions that are responsible for much of the world's global warming threats.Because there is no universally accepted way of calculating someone's carbon footprint, dozens of carbon calculators have sprung up on the Internet in the past few years creating confusion and inaccurate information. In addition, accepted frameworks for...
By Kristopher Hanson LONG BEACH - Fed up with the federal government's refusal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft and farm equipment, California announced Thursday it was preparing to lead five states and New York City in a landmark lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency. It's the second time this year California and its allies have pursued legal action to force federal air quality regulators to adopt a tougher stance on global-warming issues. During a...
By Fiona OrtizSANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's capital, home to some of Latin America's foulest air, is losing ground in its battle against pollution after hard-won gains in the 1990s.From 1990-2000 air pollution levels fell in Santiago as factories switched to cleaner fuels and belching old buses hit the scrap heap, helping improve a blight on what is otherwise one of the region's most livable urban areas.Officials crowed that the metropolitan area, home to roughly 6 million people, had seen the...
LONDON -- Britain on Thursday said its emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, crept up last year in the third consecutive annual increase.The provisional estimates came after ministers said on Tuesday the UK would miss its own target to slash CO2 emissions by a fifth by 2010 from 1990 levels. Britain is still on course to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals under the Kyoto Protocol.The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said...
By Chris Baltimore WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Thursday proposed changing environmental rules to give U.S. coal-fired power plants more leeway to expand aging facilities without installing expensive equipment to cut air pollution. Utility industry officials applauded the plan, but it drew fire from environmental groups and some states, who said it would make the air dirtier and give energy companies a benefit they failed to get in congressional legislation last...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from U.S. cars and trucks soared 25 percent between 1990 and 2003 as more vehicles hit the roads and consumers flocked to gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles, a U.S. environmental group said on Wednesday. Despite efforts to introduce cleaner hybrid vehicles, the biggest U.S. automakers have failed to reverse growing greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Defense said. "Emissions keep rising despite factors that many people...
By Jeff Mason BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Popular sports utility vehicles (SUVs) in Europe will no longer benefit from a loophole that lets them escape tough emissions standards under draft proposals presented by the European Union's executive on Friday. The European Commission put forward the tougher new limits on pollution from new cars for comment from industry and other groups before a formal proposal at the end of this year. The rules, dubbed "Euro 5," could go into force by mid-2008 and are...
