The proposed standard, if accepted, is scheduled to be implemented in 2012.
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Oh, and guess what a significant portion of that proposed standard, MPEG-4 (as in Moving Picture Experts Group), happens to be based on?
Because producing a requisite amount of electricity from gas results in estimate about 50% of the carbon dioxide for the same coal-based electricity, the only way to meet the proposed standard is to capture the outgoing carbon dioxide, pipe it somewhere, and bury it.
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The proposed standard, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 141, would fulfill Congress' mandate in the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act that hybrid and electric vehicles meet minimum sound requirements so that pedestrians are able to detect the presence, direction and location of these vehicles when they are operating at low speeds.
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The technology is available: cars like the Ford Focus ECOnetic are already achieving the proposed 2020 standard.
In short, the EPA has proposed a standard no economical coal plant can meet.
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"They've proposed a standard with no consultation with the industry and the standard that they're proposing, I believe, will do the environment a disservice, " he said.
Washington has proposed pushing the standard even higher, to as much as 62mpg by 2025.
Corporate boards say a proposed new accounting standard, known as FRS17, risks making final salary schemes too expensive.
With such a draconian standard proposed, one could be forgiven for thinking that trees pose a grave threat to life and limb, one surely magnified by the fact that these seemingly ferocious specimens cover some 12% of Britain.
They were pleased to hear Tory health spokesman Jackson Carlaw reassure them it's not their fault that people choose to be unhealthy, while he committed the Scottish Tories to opposing their Westminster colleagues on proposed moves to standard and plain cigarette packet design.
With respect to the latter, discussions in the early 1990s when the standard was first proposed did not foresee such a situation for at least 20 years.
The FTC said the vote to accept the consent agreement package containing the proposed consent order relating to standard-essential patents for public comment was 4-1, with Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen voting no.
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The federal government has proposed new rules that would push the standard to 62 miles per gallon by 2025.
Earlier today, a study in Science Translational Medicine proposed that DNA sequencing could become a standard first-choice test for infants in neonatal intensive care units, because a combination of new software and hardware could allow doctors to get results in just 50 hours, answering questions about what is making a baby sick far faster when time is of the essence.
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Some of its Christian Democrats, marginalised at home and under-represented in the proposed commission, feel they are now the standard-bearers for the centre-right.
On the other hand, a standard-deduction approach like the one proposed by George W. Bush in 2007, would expand coverage modestly, by about 11 million, but would require no new federal spending, and would in fact reduce the deficit substantially.
And since we have no absolute standard for assessing taxes, any evaluations of proposed changes will always be subjective.
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In doing so, she proposed the "endorsement" test, which established a judicial standard to measure the limits of church-state interaction.
And, as someone who proposed policy rather than administered it, Kennan was susceptible to the standard fate of policy intellectuals.
The fundamental reason that the two-theater-war standard still survives is because no credible alternative has ever been proposed.
Mr. President, shortly after that conversation a year ago, the Republicans proposed a budget that ensured that government did not grow beyond the historical standard of 20 percent of GDP.
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Barack Obama's health reform requires hospitals to list standard prices each year, and more than 30 states have either proposed or passed laws to promote price transparency, according to the GAO.
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Climate legislation proposed in Congress to date, with its low price on carbon, ineffective renewable electricity standard, and collection of efficiency regulations, will not be enough for the United States to catch up to countries like China in building the clean energy industries of the future.
But he said Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights had raised a number of concerns about the bill including "the need for a higher standard of proof, for transparency on the use of closed material and on the proposed reviewer to be appointed by Parliament rather than the government".
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