Sentences with phrase «dioxide emissions limits»

In fact, Pielke has supported carbon taxes and the EPA's carbon dioxide emissions limits on power plants.

The number sounds ambitious on the surface, but with the expectation of carbon dioxide emission limits becoming stricter in major markets, one million EVs and plug - in hybrids in nine years is the target VW is setting for itself in order to meet the demands for these cars.

It remains unclear whether the EPA's plan to loosen carbon - dioxide emission limits for 2022 through 2025 vehicles will survive inevitable court challenges.

Since carbon dioxide emission limits agreed to under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol were to expire at the stroke of midnight on December [continue reading...]

Not exact matches

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

To date, O'Brien says that Earth Angel has diverted 3,000 tons of waste from landfills, donated 90 tons of material to local charities, donated 55,000 meals to shelters and food banks, avoided over a million single - use plastic water bottles, and prevented 6,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by using recycled paper, limiting transportation emissions, and implementing «Meatless Monday» initiatives.

Pruitt has rolled back a slew of Obama - era regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

Canadian regulations initially proposed a limit of 350 kg of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour, but the final version of the regulations saw this limit raised to 420 kg.

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

At Callaway Vineyard & Winery, cover crops limit carbon dioxide emissions, inhibit weed growth, preserve soil integrity, enhance soil health, and encourage beneficial insects.

The main body has been divided into sections dealing with the three major biogenic GHGs including a section concerning carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and photosynthetic absorption and a section that deals with nitrous oxide (N20), and methane (CH4) emissions (and assimilation in some limited cases).

While cutting carbon dioxide is the only way to halt warming over the long term, experts said, earlier research has come to similar conclusions about the short - term advantages of limiting black carbon emissions.

According to Flowerpetal.com, which tries to limit the environmental impact of floral purchases, supplying the 100 million roses ordered for a typical Valentine's Day produces 9,900 tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions.

It also lends support to the US Environmental Protection Agency, which last week proposed a limit on carbon dioxide emissions from new coal - fired and gas - fired power plants.

Even the 350 - ppm limit for carbon dioxide is «questionable,» says physicist Myles Allen of the Climate Dynamics Group at the University of Oxford, and focusing instead on keeping cumulative emissions below one trillion metric tons might make more sense, which would mean humanity has already used up more than half of its overall emissions budget.

NOx gases represent some of the most reactive gases produced from diesel combustion and other fossil fuels, but the emissions limits for nitrogen dioxide are regularly exceeded, especially in urban areas.

They've been hampered by limited carbon dioxide measurements in cornfields, by the fact that annual carbon losses are comparatively small and difficult to measure, and the lack of a proven model to estimate carbon dioxide emissions that could be coupled with a geospatial analysis.

He says the only answer may be immediate cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels, which would curb the amount of bleaching and limit acidification of oceans that results when they absorb carbon dioxide.

Using executive authority, the President will issue a new rule to limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants in the United States.

Moreover, the Senate bill that would fund DOE — the so - called energy and water bill — hangs in limbo, thanks to the political battle over the Obama administration's plan to use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations to set new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, especially those that burn coal.

Current proposals are to set a limit on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse - gas emissions by issuing permits that limit those emissions to entities like power and industrial plants.

In addition to federal regulations that limit carbon dioxide emissions, 29 states and Washington, DC have Renewable Portfolio Standards that require power generators to meet specified renewable energy targets by certain dates.

These regulations shall take into account the total number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gas emissions for which a covered entity is demonstrating compliance temporarily, and may set a limit on this amount.

It has been estimated that to have at least a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 2 °C throughout the twenty - first century, the cumulative carbon emissions between 2011 and 2050 need to be limited to around 1,100 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (Gt CO2).

Report confirms that negative emission technologies (NETs) offer only «limited realistic potential» to remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and not at the scale envisaged in some climate scenarios.

His work has shown that limiting cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide may be a more robust approach to climate change mitigation policy than attempting to define a «safe» stabilization level for atmospheric greenhouse gases.

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

A couple of years later, after the industry was turned upside down by soaring oil prices and economic turmoil, governments began mandating tough new limits on fuel economy and carbon - dioxide emissions.

As with carbon dioxide emissions, the engines for the new E-Class have also taken a further major step towards the future when it comes to exhaust gas emissions: all of the powerplants meet the requirements of the EU 5 standard, whose limits are up to 80 percent more stringent than those in previous standards.

If we are in a global warming crisis today, even the most aggressive and costly proposals for limiting industrial carbon dioxide emissions and all other government proposals and taxes would have a negligible effect on global climate!

A two in three probability of holding warming to 2 °C or less will require a budget that limits future carbon dioxide emissions to about 900 billion tons, roughly 20 times annual emissions in 2014.

However, the high end of the IPCC range (or even higher) is often waved about in order to hype the issue and draw «concern» from the general public such that they stand behind efforts to limit carbon dioxide emission.

Because warming from carbon dioxide persists for many centuries, any upper limit on warming requires carbon dioxide emissions to fall eventually to zero.

Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.

For the past ten years the plant has been operating without the level of emissions controls to limit sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions as stipulated in the Clean Air Act.

Late this week, the countries responsible for more than 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions will meet in Paris in the third round of climate and energy discussions organized by the Bush administration, aimed ostensibly at finding a common long - term goal for emissions limits.

Reductions in near - term warming can be achieved by control of the short - lived climate forcers whereas carbon dioxide emission reductions, beginning now, are required to limit long - term climate change.

Like many institutions and individuals, Shell, the oil giant, is trying to divine what lies ahead in a world with limited energy options, a fast - growing energy appetite, and a climate system almost assuredly disrupted should carbon dioxide emissions from today's fuels of choice continue their seemingly inexorable rise.

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

... In the IEO2008 reference case, which does not include specific policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, energy - related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise from 28.1 billion metric tons in 2005 to 42.3 billion metric tons in 2030 — an increase of 51 percent.

The report lays out a path for exploiting this abundant and relatively clean source of energy in ways that could limit environmental concerns and give the biggest near - term boost to efforts to trim emissions of carbon dioxide.

But, we need one of these approaches to provide the right market pricing context and thus signals / motivations so that people (companies, the government, individuals, etc.) make investments and other choices within a context that limits and discourages carbon dioxide emissions.

Another paper in Science recently estimated that the world's 10 billion acres of forest are now absorbing about a third of carbon emissions, helping to limit carbon dioxide levels and keep the planet cooler than it would be otherwise.

She has also spoken up frequently about the need to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, both to limit climate disruption and protect sea life.

The contest is promoted as helping to limit global warming by curbing carbon dioxide emissions, but also clearly is designed to show that not all such efforts have to be painful.

Of course, the plant that was closed in Tongliang lacked basic pollution control equipment to limit the emission of pollutants like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter.

When I do that, aggressive curbs on carbon dioxide emissions fall well behind the immediacy of filling the world's energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

When I do that, the importance of curbing carbon dioxide emissions falls well behind * the immediacy of energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

The primary challenge is the need to limit future emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).

The EPA's regulations seek to limit carbon dioxide emissions from electricity production in the year 2030 to a level 30 percent below what they were in 2005.