Sentences with phrase «dioxide emission restrictions»

This reality ought to be enough to stop the anti-fossil fuel (via carbon dioxide emission restrictions) crusaders in their tracks.

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As a result, Brulle insisted, the public is uncertain about the alarmist claim that man - made carbon dioxide emissions are causing severe climate change, and the government in turn has failed to enact the kind of restrictions on emissions Brulle favors.

By 1988, environmental pressure groups were already arguing for similar restrictions on the emission of carbon dioxide «to save the climate.»

For a preview of what this could mean to American families, one can look to Germany, where due to restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, electricity costs three - times more than in the US and gasoline is now $ 8.00 per gallon.

So naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency issued another round of draconian restrictions on coal - fired power plants, once again targeting carbon dioxide emissions.

The proposed restrictions, unveiled by officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, would apply only to new fossil - fuel - burning power plants — limiting them to no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt generated.

Without emissions restrictions, yields from forests and pastures decline slightly or even increase because of the climate and carbon dioxide effects.

Starting with the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty in 1997, it has promoted the idea that lingering uncertainties in climate science justify delaying restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases.

That restriction will require coal - fired power plants to cut carbon dioxide emissions by half.