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Pennsylvania’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission asked the state on Tuesday to delay its entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative slated for next year.
The nonpartisan review board said too many questions remain about the program’s purported environmental and health benefits, as well as its impact on the economy and the overall cost it would impose on electricity consumers.
It also expressed skepticism that bypassing legislative approval to enter the program made sense, given that 10 of the 11 states participating in RGGI did so with the blessing of their respective legislatures.
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Training for police to enforce noise pollution rules
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Training for police to enforce noise pollution rules
Zipping around in heavily altered motorcycles fitted with high decibel horns generating ear-splitting noise may soon attract penal measures beyond the Motor Vehicles Act.
They may soon get the attention of the police as well and end up with far severe penalties, including imprisonment, under the Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000.
“A couple of years back the National Green Tribunal (NGT) passed a verdict calling for strict enforcement of the rules and it emerged that it fell under the domain of a police officer not below the rank of DySP. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board has now decided to impart training to cops to enforce the rules and measure noise pollution. We are also familiarising them with the equipment needed for enforcement,” says M.A. Baiju, chief e