Sentence examples for air quality permits from inspiring English sources

2. The determination of technical feasibility is sometimes influenced by recent air quality permits.

Ken Salazar, the interior secretary, has already expressed what he called a "troubling sense" about Shell's repeated operational mistakes — the latest being violations of air quality permits by both of Shell's drilling rigs in Arctic waters last summer.

The department's staff had recommended issuing the air quality permits, but Roderick L. Bremby, the secretary of the department, said in a statement, "I believe it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the contribution of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to climate change and the potential harm to our environment and health if we do nothing".

In 2011, delays in getting final approval for an air quality permit forced the company to delay drilling.

The chairman of the Public Utilities Commission said the Environmental Protection Agency had filed objections to an air quality permit a state agency had granted for the proposed coal-fired Big Stone II power plant.

At issue was an air quality permit Dominion needs as part of its Atlantic Coast Pipeline project — a 600-mile, $6 billion natural gas pipeline stretching from West Virginia through central Virginia into North Carolina.

Shell was on the verge of drilling in 2011, but delays in getting final approval for an air quality permit forced the company to put off drilling until 2012.

Last year, drilling appeared to be on track until an E.P.A. appeals panel delayed an air quality permit because it wanted more time to consider the potential impact of exploration rigs' diesel emissions on local indigenous communities.

In some cases, an air quality permit may require a certain level of control, but the level of control in a permit is not expected to be achieved in practice (e.g., a source has received a permit but the project was canceled, or every operating source at that permitted level has been physically unable to achieve compliance with the limit).

The latest hurdle is obtaining an air quality permit from the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been delayed by an E.P.A. appeals panel that recently ruled that it wanted a more thorough review of the impact diesel emissions from exploration might have on local indigenous communities.

On Thursday, Arizona's Department of Environmental Quality granted Rosemont Copper, a subsidiary of Augusta Resource of Vancouver, a crucial air quality permit, saying emissions from the proposed mine would not violate federal standards for carbon monoxide, nitrogen and sulfur dioxide, or fine and large particles.