Sentences with phrase «emission cars from»

He said pollution is a «major problem» and he wants the government to ««declare war» on smog by removing high - emission cars from the road and closing coal - fired furnaces.

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In 2009, for example, the German government amended its rules so that inspections of emissions performance would be based solely on readings from a car's own «onboard diagnostic» system, effectively ceding total control to the automakers.

Normally I wouldn't consider an electric car since zero emissions from a car when it's powered by coal isn't that much less.

After the car companies met with the government at the start of this month, the CEOs of Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW conceded responsibility for the diesel scandal and promised to pay for software upgrades to reduce emissions from affected vehicles.

Increases in emissions from air and sea transport will more than offset the savings from passenger cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the car industry.

Using these new power sources could reduce emissions from a car by around 50 %, according to Maxwell's (MXWL) CEO and president Franz Fink.

But the livestock sector is responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, through cows producing methane and production processes - comparable to all the direct emissions from cars, planes, ships and other transport.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

Things just went from catastrophic to apocalyptic as Volkswagen just admitted that the emission test cheating engine management software at the center of the Dieselgate controversy is installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group cars worldwide.

The CPM Group anticipates palladium demand to reach an all - time high this year, up 3 percent from last year, on tightened emissions standards and the purchase of larger cars and trucks in the U.S. on lower fuel costs.

Driving palladium's rally this year, though, are bets that European car buyers will soon be switching from diesel - burning to gas - burning cars because of emissions concerns.

Tesla also collects hundreds of millions from competing automakers by selling environmental credits in California and more than half a dozen other states to car companies that can't meet the states» «zero emissions» sales mandates.

Several other administration policies are likely to have a greater impact on global greenhouse - gas emissions, including the Environmental Protection Agency's rule to limit carbon emissions from new power plants and its first - ever carbon limits on cars and light trucks.

Diesel cars from Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi, which is owned by VW, were rigged to cheat on clean air rules with software that made emissions look cleaner than they actually were, according to federal and California regulators.

It's the smell of BS, juvenilia, and indiscipline wafting from the world's largest producer of emissions - free cars.

The UK could cut the carbon emissions from passenger cars in half if the population went meat - free or vegan, according to a new report from Lancaster University.

From January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2011 (the period covered by our verification), the project removed from the atmosphere 413,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of nearly 69,000 compact cFrom January 1, 2006 through December 31, 2011 (the period covered by our verification), the project removed from the atmosphere 413,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of nearly 69,000 compact cfrom the atmosphere 413,000 metric tons of carbon equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of nearly 69,000 compact cars.

According to Professor Nick Hewitt of the Lancaster Environment Centre, 40 million tons of CO2 is «equivalent to a 50 per cent reduction in current exhaust pipe emissions of CO2 from the entire UK passenger car fleet».

• Greenhouse - gas emissions to produce uneaten turkey equal 800,000 car trips from New York to San Francisco, Gunders found.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that if compost were applied over 5 % of the state's grazing lands, the soil could capture a year's worth of greenhouse gas emissions from California's farm and forestry industries, or the equivalent of removing 6 million cars from the road.

We provided technical assistance to a group of coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, who launched an agroforestry project to remove 130,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions (the annual emissions of 27,000 cars) from the atmosphere over 30 years through reforestation of degraded land.

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

She added: «We have to move away from nose to tail car traffic at peak times, endless engine idling, stop start travel and rising pollution and carbon emissions.

The report is expected to cause a furore among environmental groups, which supported the fuel duty escalator as a way to limit the greenhouse gas emissions from car use.

Emissions from cars, trucks and other mobile sources are on the rise nationally.

Yet plans to tackle automobile emissions remain in their infancy outside California, which has implemented an economywide cap - and - trade program and a host of policies aimed at curbing carbon from cars and trucks.

Environmentally conscious drivers can now choose from a sizable selection of low - emissions cars, including the hybrid Toyota Prius and the all - electric Nissan Leaf.

A recent report found that high - speed rail in the Midwest would reduce air travel by 1.3 million trips and car travel by 5.1 million trips per year by 2020, saving 188,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions (equivalent to taking 34,000 cars off the road while still getting everyone to and from work).

Cars account for nearly half of all CO2 emissions from transport.

A study by the alliance, a nonprofit group supported by the banking industry, claims that if just 2 percent of American households switched from paper to electronic billing, more than 180,000 trees would be spared and greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by the equivalent to taking 32,572 cars off the road.

That provision led to this year's federal rule requiring 54.5 mpg by 2025, a tremendous victory that will cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks in half by 2025 and reduce emissions by 6 billion metric tons.

That is the message of new research that has quantified CO2 emissions from the Harbour for the first time — found to be 1000 tonnes annually — equivalent to the pollution from about 200 cars.

Also, the carbon dioxide emissions from powering 15 computers are equivalent to those produced by one car.

Already, emissions from petroleum - powered cars have choked Chinese cities with air pollution.

Projected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars could remain level at three gigatons through 2050 despite many more personal vehicles on the road with only minor and affordable changes to existing engines, chassis and systems, according to a new report.

Comprehensive statistics on the system won't be available till Fall, but ITDP said that according to an accounting method being developed by the U.N. Environment Programme, Guangzhou's BRT reduces about 20,000 tons of CO2 a year — the equivalent of the emissions from about 4,000 cars in the United States.

Its impact on climate, the authors say, will be equivalent to the effect of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from over half a million cars.

On a life - cycle basis, FCVs running on hydrogen derived from steam - reforming natural gas — currently the most affordable way of making hydrogen — produce less than half the greenhouse gas emissions of a gasoline - powered car.

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

EU car emissions fell 2.6 percent in 2012 from 2011, official figures showed on Wednesday, adding to a fierce Brussels debate on how quickly automakers can improve vehicle fuel efficiency.

Even stepping up from the Volvo V70 to a car that gets an extra two miles a gallon avoids about a ton of greenhouse - gas emissions annually.

He also notes that the report may underestimate emissions reductions from improved conventional cars, biofuels, and other technologies.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- EU car emissions fell 2.6 percent in 2012 from 2011, official figures showed on Wednesday, adding to a fierce Brussels debate on how quickly automakers can improve vehicle fuel efficiency.

So to find out if plug - ins really do reduce overall emissions of CO2, researchers at NRDC and EPRI used a computer model to project the overall emissions from the cars and the power plants.

(The admirable original bill is designed to increase fuel efficiency in cars and light trucks, encourage production of biofuels, and provide funds to develop technology that will capture carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.)

Off the record, one of the government's own advisers on air pollution will tell you he has estimated that the deaths of 3000 people a year in England and Wales can be laid at the door of emissions from diesel lorries, cars and buses.

Martin Bartenstein, Austria's environment minister, says he hopes the petrol will prove popular, as he wants to introduce it permanently to reduce emissions from cars without catalytic converters.

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

Notably, California and 11 other states had been seeking waivers from the EPA permitting them to pass laws requiring reduced car emissions of greenhouse gases from the 2009 model year onward.