An analysis released by the South Coast district last month as part of the agency's clean air plan found that the health benefits of meeting federal pollution reduction deadlines, including prevention of thousands of early deaths, emergency room visits and missed school days, would far outweigh the billions in costs to industry, the government and consumers.
On Tuesday a judge extended the prison-reduction deadline one month, through January 2014.
[Huffington Post, Occupy Wall St] That Manhattan-long walk was just a warm-up: on Wednesday, protesters will embark on a two-week march to Washington to show their opposition to the Bush tax cuts in time for the Congressional super committee to meet its Nov. 23 deficit-reduction deadline.
Though it's hardly the first pollution-reduction deadline Southern California has busted, the request is notable in highlighting how climate change might be a new front in the war against smog.
When the South Coast air district was faced with a similar EPA penalty for missing an ozone-reduction deadline in 2010, it arranged to use money for local air quality improvement projects as credits rather than imposing tens of millions in fees on area businesses or drivers.
To meet federal ozone-reduction deadlines in 2023 and 2031, an air district smog cleanup plan adopted in March relies on raising $1 billion a year in cash incentives it says are needed to pay for lower-polluting vehicles — more than a tenfold increase from what it has spent in the past.
Since it remains questionable whether societies are technologically and politically capable of achieving such rapid reductions, the 2015 deadline requiring an annual emission reduction rate of 5.3%, while still very ambitious, is probably more realistic [3].
Since it remains questionable whether societies are technologically and politically capable of achieving such rapid reductions, the 2015 deadline requiring an annual emission reduction rate of 5.3%, while still very ambitious, is probably more realistic [ 3].
Nationwide, the speed limit was reduced to 55 mph on January 2, 1974; Kansas delayed implementing the reduction until the deadline on March 2 , 1974
"The deadlines in the pollution reduction program are statutory deadlines and failure to meet these deadlines can constitute a breach of the licence," the EPA spokeswoman said.
In 2001, the FDA announced a request for information and comments on the use of IOA (in situ) models as a substitute for the animal caries reduction test, with a deadline of January 14 , 2002(Federal Register/Vol. 66, No. 199) [ 8] The deadline was later extended to July 12 , 2002 at the request of the Anticaries Task Group of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.
