Sentences with phrase «dioxide abatement costs»

This range considerably exceeds the estimated $ 28 per ton carbon dioxide abatement cost of the cap - and - trade regime included in the painstakingly negotiated American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, as computed by the Congressional Budget Office.

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While the Government says carbon abatement costs per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) should be about # 56 ($ 87) for road transport, the report says the cost using the current generation of biofuels ranges from about # 105 to # 715 ($ 165 - 1,100).

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).