Emission standard

economy. By the year 2016, new cars and trucks would require an average fuel economy standard of 35.5 miles per gallon which would save a total of 1.8 billion barrels of oils over the life of the program. This would also allow the fuel economy to gain an average of more than five percent every year. Ultimately, there would be a 900 million metric tons of greenhouse emissions that would be reduced. The standards set up in this policy surpassed the CAFE Law that was passed by Congress in 2007.…

of measurement and disclosure on carbon emissions and greenhouse gas related activities. In the end, the motivations to improve the quality of disclosure are analysed. Carbon accounting in UK and Russia: UK established the Climate Change Act in 2008 which is first legally binding target on climate change in the world. The aim of the act is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at least 80% before 2050(Committee on…

Air Act (CAA) is an environmental law made by the U.S. government. This federal law aims at regulating air emissions from stationary sources such as industries and mobile sources such as vehicles. It was established to authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) that protects the public health through regulation of emissions that have a hazardous effect on air (Sueyoshi & Goto, 2010). The CAA was established in 1963 after…

Air pollution has been a growing concern in the New England area over the past few decades. Air pollution can come from many different sources including stationary sources like factories and power plants, mobile sources like vehicles, agricultural sources found from gassy animals and their waste products, as well as natural sources like wildfires, dust storms and other natural occurrences. Various cities around New England have identified the sources that are contributing to the air pollution…

Dioxide emissions generated from the use of fossil fuels to run the vehicles. Global competition in the industry The US Auto Industry faces serious competition from other countries such as Japan, Germany and South Korea in their mass market. Some auto companies in other countries seem to be ahead in adopting and reacting to the environmental challenge such as Japanese Toyota with the infamous Prius model. In addition the customer preference on the global mass market…

John Cosgrove Mrs. Gallos 19, April 2017 Research Paper EPA REGULATIONS Have you ever been watching tv or the news and you heard about the EPA? Have you ever hear about Greenhouse emissions and other pollutants? What is the EPA? Well, I’m here to tell you a little about the EPA and some of the problems with the regulations that Americans are facing every second of their daily life. EPA stands for Environmetal Protection Agency, Which they help the Environment but tthey hurt many Americans.…

Yet, we are still polluting our atmosphere and oceans at an all time high rate. What we need is a net zero emission. This is possible. We need the United States government to implement a plan to have zero gasoline and diesel powered vehicles on the road. Pollution regulations need to be raised on businesses. Finally, the way our homes and businesses are powered…

effects have inflicted a great harm on biodiversity particularly due to industrialization polluting and destroying ecosystems. Carbon dioxide emissions are those stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring. Carbon emissions go on without us realizing it. It comes down to the personal choices we make each day that dictates our carbon footprint. Today the average…

recycling goods and materials, and shipping without causing too large of a carbon footprint (Senthil & Sakthi, 2015).. However, one must wonder what new technology that they are using are production techniques can cause such a large percentage of carbon emissions. The answer is due to the polluting factories that Apple is forced to use in order to remain competitive. The cheap labour garnered is essential to Apple maintaining their competitive advantage and therefore don’t invest in better…

This is where the carbon tax comes in. The carbon tax would impose an excise levy on fossil fuels that emit CO2 as a system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How the carbon tax would work is that it will put a monetary price on the cost of CO2 emissions on our economy. Since the carbon tax is a commodity tax, it would raise the price of energy and transportation. The burden of the tax would also fall more heavily on energy-intensive industries as…