environmental regulations Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:29:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 REINS Act: New Bill Passes to Stop Environmental Regulations https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reins-act-environment-20170311/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reins-act-environment-20170311/#respond Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:29:09 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=63289 Last week, the House of Representatives passed a bill that will affect any future governmental action taken for environmental standards, public health, consumer protection, labor standards, occupational safety. The bill is called REINS Act, and it calls for any major regulation that is related to the Executive Agency should be first passed as a resolution […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/reins-act-environment-20170311/feed/ 0 63289 Environmental Regulations Will Force More US Coal Plants to Retire https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:21:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26594 The US Power Grid is supported by a number of power-generation technologies, coal, oil, wind, hydro, nuclear, to name a few. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [EPA], 3.9 million gigawatt-hours [Gwh] of electricity was generated by all US power plants in 2009. Close to 1.8 million GWh of that electricity was produced by […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/environmental-regulations-will-force-more-us-coal-plants-to-retire-20121009/feed/ 1 26594 The Cost of Clean Air Based on New Environmental Regulations https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-cost-of-clean-air-based-on-new-environmental-regulations-20121003/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-cost-of-clean-air-based-on-new-environmental-regulations-20121003/#respond Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:10:28 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26407 Economists at the University of Chicago and MIT published a study, which reports an annual cost of $21 billion for manufacturing companies, due to enlarged environmental regulations. Although cleaner air and improvements in U.S public health are now clearly noticeable, for the period 1972-1993 these regulations have reduced industrial productivity and profits with 4.8% and […]

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