Sentence examples for required power plants from inspiring English sources

Three years later, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency required power plants to add scrubbers to cut emissions.

The original rule required power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants by more than 90percentt over five years.

The state's flexible permit system required power plants and certain other polluters to reduce their overall emissions, but left them considerable latitude over how to get there.

In particular, he and other opponents argued that the regulations required power plants to take actions "outside the fence line," rather than regulating activities that only take place on a particular facility.

Studies have found that when regulators required power plants to install scrubbers in their smokestacks, it created incentives for innovation that lowered the costs of operating the anti-pollution equipment.

Perry's proposed rule diverges so sharply from the Staff Report, Silverstein said, that it's "as though they had never read it". Silverstein said she studied the effect of regulations like the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard, a rule passed in 2011 that required power plants to control emissions of certain pollutants by the end of 2015.

She upheld a rule requiring power plants upwind of national parks to reduce emissions until the parks are clear.

Mr. Thompson was discussing a program that requires power plants and other factories to upgrade their pollution controls when they modernize.

Top federal regulators recently recommended informally that the White House relax regulations that require power plants to install new pollution control equipment when they upgrade operations.

One -- a Senate proposal that Mr. Tauzin is trying to kill -- would require power plants to generate 10percentt of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

And in a preview to his approach to energy policy, he dropped a campaign pledge to require power plants to control emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.