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Concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and climate change took a back seat.

The department said it wanted to ensure its concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are adequately addressed.

Concerns about greenhouse gas emissions simply do not have a high priority now in developing nations.

The rising cost of gas coupled with rising concern about greenhouse gas emissions weigh heavily on all fleet operations.

«If people are concerned about greenhouse gas emissions, biomass makes a lot of sense,» Patton - Mallory said.

Not exact matches

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

Since 2008, a renaissance in electric vehicle manufacturing has occurred due to advances in batteries and energy management, concerns about increasing oil prices, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

In general, the results support concerns about permafrost carbon becoming available to decomposition and greenhouse gas emission.

Registration fees for plug - in vehicles also fly in the face of policies intended to promote their use due to concerns about energy independence, energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions, Dumortier said.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

While rising carbon dioxide emissions are a primary concern of those worried about climate change, emissions of methane, another potent greenhouse gas, have also risen in recent years.

Man - made climate change has been a global concern for several years, but as industrial emissions of some greenhouse and ozone - depleting gases drop, scientists are finding new sources to worry about.

If all of these people are so concerned about greenhouse gases then why not stop the emissions related to their long CO2 generating journey.

Also pack up all your cares and woes if you're concerned about the future of renewables, especially solar power, the same section contains an article in which Dr. Ray Kurzweil says in part:» Worried about greenhouse gas emissions?

Despite the report's added emphasis on a list of «reasons for concern» about the continuing growth of long - lived emissions that trap heat, senior White House officials said Friday and Saturday that it remained impossible to define a «dangerous» threshold in the concentration of greenhouse gases or resulting warming.

While, in theory, human activities have the potential to result in net cooling, a concern about 25 years ago, the current balance between greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions of particulates and particulate - formers is such that essentially all of today's concern is about net warming.

It would be hard to find someone more concerned about human - driven climate change and more involved in pursuing and assessing ways to get traction on curbing greenhouse gas emissions than Marshall.

Concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

Can Obama assuage those concerned about oil sands» large greenhouse - gas emissions, while maintaining true to his commitment to an «all - of - the - above» energy policy?

The nation is once again assessing how best to stimulate the deployment of advanced energy technologies in response to recent high energy prices — caused by the growing world demand for energy, wars in the Middle East, and last year's hurricanes — and concerns about the adverse environmental effects, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, of using conventional fossil energy.

The nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

Nuclear powered reactors are capable of producing vast amounts of electricity with no greenhouse gas emissions, which is clearly a great benefit given current concerns about climate change.

Concerned about the dangers of climate change and the violation of fundamental rights held by citizens, courts are requiring governments to take adequate actions to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Electricity generation from nuclear power worldwide increases from 2.6 trillion kilowatthours in 2010 to 5.5 trillion kilowatthours in 2040, as concerns about energy security and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

The Cooler Heads Coalition (CHC) was formed on May 6, 1997, under the direction of the National Consumer Coalition — a project of the now - defunct Consumer Alert — «out of concern that the American people were not being informed about the economic impact of proposals to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.»

And I think that Mike, if in fact he were truly concerned about climate change and truly familiar with California, would recognize that 50 % of our greenhouse gas emissions in California are attributable to the development in refining and use of petroleum, and focus attention there.

The US apparent unwillingness to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions beyond what it is already on track to achieve is of considerable controversy in the Qatar negotiations this week because of the growing scientific concern about the potential inevitability of catastrophic warming caused by human activities.

In addition, environmental concerns about manure runoff, greenhouse gas emissions, odor, and pathogens are putting pressure on farmers to change their practices.

Despite legitimate concerns about air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, coal use will continue to be significant in the future.

In addition to metrics for greenhouse gas emissions and local pollutants, a government still focused on economic recovery and job growth should also be concerned about cost - effectiveness, reliability, and meeting consumer and business demand.

Another potential source of error comes from projections concerning future greenhouse - gas emissions, which vary depending on assumptions about economic developments.

In March 2007, Hansen told the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, «The effect of the filtering of climate change science during the current administration has been to make the reality of climate change less certain than the facts indicate, and to reduce concern about the relation of climate change to human - made greenhouse gas emissions.»

«At a time of rising fossil - fuel costs and increased concern about greenhouse - gas emissions, the Stirling project would provide enough clean power to serve 278,000 homes for an entire year,» said SCE Chairman John Bryson.

It's based on a growing concern about the rapid pace of global change and continued anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases.