Sentences with phrase «at cutting emissions»

The EPA is set to release new rules April 3 aimed at cutting emissions by 25 percent from oil fields by measures such as controlling for leaks and requiring green completions, which use no toxic chemicals.

As Matthew Lewis at the Center Public Integrity points out, «as for the ACCCE coalition — it was founded this year solely to address the advancing legislation aimed at cutting the emissions of fossil fuels like coal that are blamed for global warming.»

back, and are ineffective at cutting emissions as demonstrated by Germany and Denmark.»

Clearly this timeframe is unlikely to be achieved, but the point is that nuclear is more effective than gas at cutting emissions.

It is also a view that is held by a number of politicians, making them reluctant to introduce regulations or legislation aimed at cutting emissions.

But worldwide emissions have continued to swell, driven mainly by blistering economic growth and coal burning in Asia; debate over a new climate treaty has stalled; lawmakers of both parties have not embraced legislation aimed at cutting emissions; and polls show the public still largely disengaged.

Not exact matches

The compromise plan, which will cut emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared with 2008 levels, fell short of more ambitious targets, they added.

The compromise plan, which will cut emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared with 2008 levels, fell short of more ambitious targets.

The shipping sector, along with aviation, avoided specific emissions - cutting targets in a global climate pact agreed in Paris at the end of 2015, which aims to limit a global average rise in temperature to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius from 2020.

That same year, Exide reached an agreement with Texas officials to pay $ 20 million for improvements to its engineering systems at the Frisco plant to cut down on lead emissions.

The report, hinged on the implications of climate change, came at a time when energy experts were insisting that unless countries drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions by moving away from fossil fuels, climate change would remain inevitable.

At the time those organizations argued that climate science was too uncertain to underpin sweeping efforts to cut emissions.

This article takes a really interesting look at why U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says China is the key to cutting global emissions — and to drive U.S. business toward developing energy technologies...

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

Baking bread in lighter tins, cleaning pipes with ice instead of hot water, and using microwaves to dry fruit gums and jellies: these are just some of the ideas being explored by the Carbon Trust and food industry leaders to cut energy use and carbon emissions at UK manufacturing sites.

Researchers at the Oxford Martin School say that food and farming will be responsible for almost half of the planet's «carbon budget» by 2050 but that cutting meat out of our diets, or simply cutting down on the amount we eat, will have a major impact on associated emissions.

Bill Gill, assistant vice president for sustainability at Smithfield Foods, shares how efforts including hog waste - to - energy could help the world's largest pork producer cut GHG emissions — and costs....

The livestock industry notes that if some or most of the methane could be incorporated into the animal's nutrition processes, rather than being emitted, this would increase productive weight gain at the same time as cutting greenhouse gas emissions, for a double bonus effect.

At the same time it has cut CO ₂ emissions by 23 % and the quality of its discharge water improved by 32 %, both on track for its 2020 target of 25 % and 33 % respectively.

A commitment to environmental sustainability lies at the heart of the Scotch Whisky industry which has now unveiled even more ambitious green targets, from responsible water use to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Walmart recently announced that as part of moves to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas from its supply chain by the end of 2015, it is demanding stricter quality and environmental standards from its Chinese suppliers, and is looking at factories» air emissions and management disposal of hazardous waste.

Mr Miliband did not specify what the proposed legislation would include, but said ministers were «looking carefully at the merits of introducing a carbon budget» to help meet Britain's targets on cutting carbon emissions.

The current regulations are aimed at cutting tailpipe emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming.

Climate scientists tell us that to keep the rise of global temperature above the pre-industrial level at below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in order to avoid runaway global warming, the world must cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent per year starting in 2020.

At the same time, Cuomo's administration has supported a ratepayer - backed bailout for three upstate nuclear power plants, pointing to the need to keep their emission - free power on the grid in order to reach the state's pollution - cutting goals.

Ministers are showing signs of a full - scale Cabinet split over the pace at which Britain cuts its carbon emissions.

Medina wants to look at how to lower emissions from local thoroughfares like the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and the Williamsburg Bridge in hopes of cutting down the asthma rate.

A climate change bill is due shortly which will set out ministers» plans to cut emissions at home in the UK, and changes to the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) are also planned, including its expansion into the emissions - heavy aviation industry.

The Clean Energy Standard (CES), a component of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's initiative to double the state's renewable energy providers and cut carbon emissions 40 percent by 2030, was approved unanimously at a meeting in Albany Monday.

Matthew Sinclair, policy analyst at the TaxPayers» Alliance, said: «Politicians are making radical promises to cut emissions but don't appear to have thought through how these can be delivered without doing crippling damage to the UK economy.

The prime minister rebuffed these claims saying the government was even looking at the possibility that its target of a 60 per cent cut in CO2 emissions by 2050 was «not ambitious enough».

So let's at the very least resolve that we're going to cut our carbon emissions no slower but also no faster than our fellow countries in Europe.

Hanna said he has «significant concerns» about how the EPA expanded its authority with the rule, but he believed the GOP bill would have gone too far to prevent future rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change.

The PSC in August approved a new «clean energy standard» aimed at boosting renewable energy and cutting carbon emissions.

Europe and the Pacific islands originally proposed a 70 to 100 percent cut in shipping emissions by 2050, a target aimed at bringing the sector's burgeoning emissions in line with the Paris Agreement's goal of containing warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.

Instead, with the imposition of a cap - and - trade program, O'Connor said, people looked at the sources of coal and realized they could obtain it from different parts of the country with lower sulfur, cutting emissions at less cost.

Last week New Scientist reported that US emissions could be cut by more than 7 per cent if people changed their ways at home.

Now it's likely that President Obama's final years in office will be spent in part defending his plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions at power plants by one - third while addressing Republican priorities on conventional energy, like construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, in a legislature united under the GOP banner.

In Switzerland, the government passed a law requiring that from 1 August 2016, biofuels must cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 % relative to fossil - fuel equivalents.

In the draft climate change bill proposed by House Democrats, credits aimed at gaining emissions cuts by avoiding tropical deforestation would slowly decrease over time.

Testifying to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in 2007, Ramanathan said of cutting black carbon emissions that «at best, it is a short - term measure to probably buy a decade or two, time for implementing CO2 emission reduction strategies.»

In fact, it will only make our problems worse, as proven in Europe, where cap - and - trade hurt the economy, drove up energy costs, and failed to cut carbon emissions at all.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

The administration released its strategy at the UN climate talks for cutting U.S. emissions more than 80 percent by mid-century

The study suggests that cutting emissions could partially stem the tide, but even under an optimistic scenario, Europe could see asylum applications rise by at least a quarter.

The work by Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

Pressure from the government to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and toxins has engine - makers taking a closer look at how new fuels combust

«If emission cuts were postponed due to climate engineering, a halt in climate engineering would place the two - degree objective beyond reach,» says Tommi Ekholm, a Senior Scientist at VTT.

He also said the United States should provide emissions credits and tax cuts to industries that reduce emissions early, make binding pledges to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions early in the next century, and give a $ 5 billion boost over the next 5 years to research and development aimed at using energy more efficiently.

A problem is that markets for trading carbon dioxide focus on cuts in emissions at power plants and factories burning fossil fuels, not renewable energies which are viewed as green.