Sentence examples for tightening efficiency from inspiring English sources

First, the federal and state governments must keep tightening efficiency standards for buildings, equipment and vehicles.

After much negotiation, the industry and environmental groups agreed to endorse tightening efficiency by 25 to 30 percent.

Agreement is broad on near-term executive actions to address climate change, including imposing strict caps on greenhouse-gas emissions at all power plants, tightening efficiency standards for appliances and limiting methane leakage from gas wells and pipelines.

Bowing to political reality, Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, said the Senate would not take up legislation intended to reduce carbon emissions blamed as a cause of climate change, but would instead pursue a more limited measure focused on responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and tightening energy efficiency standards.

McCain cast votes against tightening fuel efficiency standards, failed to require public utilities to provide a certain percentage of their power from renewable sources, and removed Endangered Species Act protections that conflicted with the priorities of Arizona businesses.

The plan includes measures previously speculated to be a part of the overall climate change reduction strategy, including boosting renewable energy on federal land and tightening energy efficiency standards.

But he has also cast votes against tightening fuel-efficiency standards and resisted requiring public utilities to offer a specific amount of electricity from renewable sources.

Even as it has been tightening fuel-efficiency standards and regulating power plants, the Obama Administration has presided over a dramatic expansion of U.S. fuel production, which has included a sixty per cent increase in domestic oil output.

I find that tightening fuel-efficiency standards beyond those currently mandated through 2016, or imposing feebates designed to accomplish similar changes, can achieve by 2030 reductions in energy use by all light-duty passenger vehicles of 7.1 8.4%.

Republican leaders are also expected to allow a separate vote on a measure to tighten fuel efficiency standards in sport utility vehicles.

It provides another powerful incentive, if any more were needed, to tighten fuel efficiency standards and to push more aggressively for the long-term development of alternative fuels.