tailpipe ['teilpaip]   

tailpipe

1. Testing will compare tailpipe emissions from the eight test trucks against emissions from four trucks not using the reformulated fuel.
2. Tougher tailpipe emission controls on automobiles would reduce smog-causing pollutants by 22 to 60 percent, depending on the pollutant.
3. A reduction of smog-causing pollution from automobiles through tighter tailpipe emission controls, cleaner fuels and a phase-in through fleet operators of more alternativ fuel vehicles.
4. The White House earlier in the week abandoned its staunch opposition to a second round of auto tailpipe emission controls, but details of how such controls might go into effect have thwarted agreement among the negotiators, participants said.
5. Ideally, a new kind of gasoline would maintain the performance characteristics of today's fuel while significantly cutting tailpipe emissions.
6. The report said the air can be made cleaner with tighter auto tailpipe standards, mandatory cleanup steps for cities and severe pollution penalties for areas that do not meet air quality standards.
7. Mr. Waxman agreed to the compromise after he lost in an earlier attempt to impose even stricter tailpipe standards.
8. They could produce vehicles meeting any of five emission standards, rather than a uniform tailpipe standard, just so long as the manufacturer's average fleet met certain requirements.
9. Current cars must meet strict standards for emission of unburned gasoline vapor out the tailpipe and for evaporation.
10. The bill that emerged from the panel included substantially tougher auto tailpipe emissions standards, putting the California requirements into effect for the entire country.
11. Motor vehicle manufacturers would be required to tighten tailpipe standards for nitrogen oxide and hydrocarbons.
12. Legislation before the Senate to tighten federal air pollution controls does not include a requirement for alternative fuel vehicles and, instead, would impose new automobile tailpipe emission controls that the auto industry has vigorously opposed.
13. Stafford said coal-derived methanol would double emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to the greenhouse effect, and bring a tenfold increase in tailpipe emissions of formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical.
14. All types of vehicle emissions _ tailpipe exhaust, evaporation and running losses _ will be measured.
15. He went right over the top of us, and all we saw was his tailpipe through the windshield," said Capt.
16. The Senate bill calls for tough second-stage tailpipe controls, while the administration says those provisions are too expensive and favors a phase-in of alternative fuel cars in regions with the dirtiest air.
17. "We cannot allow northern California to be leased and our valuable ocean resources blown out the tailpipe of a gas guzzler when there is no national energy policy," said Wesley Chesbro, chairman of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors.
18. Tighten tailpipe emission standards for cars.
19. But the White House has opposed the additional tailpipe emission requirements, arguing that an alternative fuels vehicle program focused on the areas with the dirtiest air is more economical and achieves nearly as much pollution reduction.
20. At the same time, he said, environmentalists have a good chance of winning tougher standards for auto tailpipe emissions and of succeeding in doubling the required warranty on pollution equipment to 100,000 miles per car.