Sentences with phrase «curb costs because»

This is part of an effort at Volkswagen to help curb costs because of the diesel emission mess.

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«The policy was adopted as a way to curb rising healthcare costs and improve quality of care, and CMS chose those three conditions because they're common, expensive to treat, and often result in readmission.»

They save taxpayers money, because the average voucher ends up costing less than educating the same student in public school and because the voucher curbs public - school financial incentives to inflate the special education rolls.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

But whether sequestration is a viable means of curbing plant emissions remains to be seen; cost is an important factor in implementing the strategy because carbon dioxide has to be separated from a power plant's gas stream and compressed before it can be injected into the ground.

These systems, also known as energy management systems, have become commonplace in all sizes of commercial buildings over the past several years because they help curb costs related to heating and cooling, lighting and even water consumption.