Sentences with phrase «emission technology requires»

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Getting to an emission - free future will require a real commitment to research and development, technology development, and support for technologies as they enter the market — like ARPA - E, but at an even larger scale.

Requiring the reduction of carbon emissions will make coal - based energy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capital fund.

Despite the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, global regulations are still trending towards stricter environmental and emissions regulations, requiring businesses to invest in cleaner technology in order to meet those standards.

If any of these technologies is implemented on the scale required to significantly reduce carbon emissions, demand for certain rare earth elements will almost inevitably exceed current supply — and quite probably known reserves.

«If economics is the sole focus, then less expensive technologies that require significant amounts of energy for their manufacture, maintenance and replacement might win out — even if they ultimately increase greenhouse gas emissions and negate the long - term benefits of implementing wind and solar power.»

The technology could also supply a source of renewable jet fuel required by recent European Union aviation emission regulations.

Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

Less work required to capture the same amount of CO2 results in lowering the cost of using CCUS technology, making coal - to - chemicals factories a promising sector to reduce carbon emissions.

Accordingly, it is possible that in the future, U.S. EPA or individual states may seek (or be required) to regulate carbon dioxide or other GHG emissions from biomass - fired power plants, including requiring such plants to retroactively obtain permits or install pollution control technology.

While it will likely spur us into action on the technologies required to reduce emissions, the effects of global warming will nonetheless still be felt by us, and by our descendants, for decades to come.

The auto maker said it needed a year to develop the technology required to meet the nation's new - for - ’07 emissions regulations.

Requires demonstration, deployment, or evaluation projects in public transportation to seek, among other things, the deployment of low or no emission vehicles, zero emission vehicles, or associated advanced technology.

Beginning in 2008, Volkswagen and Audi — and many other manufacturers like Mercedes - Benz, Jeep and BMW — were required to comply with much more strict emissions requirements for their diesel - powered cars and trucks, as the United States adopted Clean Diesel technology and ultra-low diesel fuel.

The use of BMW eDrive technology for exceptionally efficient performance as well as all - electric mobility with zero tailpipe emissions as and when required ushers in a whole new form of commanding driving experience in a sports activity vehicle.

But a 25 % reduction wont fix the climate issue, so we will require renewable energy and some form of negative emissions with either technology or natural sinks, preferably the later.

But he also said it was clear that moving utilities to stabilized emissions within 10 to 15 years was a huge task requiring much more action, whether through government - led research on new technologies or other approaches.

Halving emissions with increased population growth (as is required to meet the targets) currently seems highly unrealistic — without major investments in new technology.

China and India have already invested heavily in emission reducing technologies, despite the fact that they are not required to do so under Kyoto.

The agency also took an overdue step to clarify how to curb emissions of methane from the hundreds of thousands of wells, compressors and other leaky parts of the nation's sprawling oil and gas industry, issuing an «Information Collection Request» requiring companies, among other things, to describe the types of technologies that could be used to reduce emissions.

A recent study by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard shows broad misunderstanding, particularly of how the long - lived nature of the main heat - trapping gas, carbon dioxide, means that deep reductions in emissions would be required — not merely a slowdown — to stabilize the concentration of the gas in the atmosphere, no matter what concentration is deemed «safe.»

We might consider a compromise with the Chinese that grandfathered and excused greenhouse emissions before Kyoto in return to a pledge to share technology and research, but that required nations to make additional cuts (or purchase additional emissions credits) to compensate for emissions since then.

The struggle to initiate the big shifts in behavior and technology that would be required to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in a world with a fast - growing energy appetite is of epic scale.

To come anywhere near achieving Mr. Obama's goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to 80 percent below where they were in 1990 would require huge leaps in technology along with deploying what's available now, he said.

To do that while sharply cutting emissions of greenhouse gases would require a leap, in both behaviors and technology, far beyond where the country, or world at large, sit today, by many accounts.

Solar energy technologies will require enormous advances to make a dent in emissions of greenhouse gases, many experts say.

The key problem with this «moral hazard» argument is the hypothesis that «cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR solutions» are poised to proliferate at greater rates than GHG emission mitigation technologies (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency) that are required to decarbonize our economy.

The lawsuit claims that Allegheny undertook many construction projects over the years to extend the operational lifespan of these plants without complying with federal standards that require implementation of best available control technology standards to reduce sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions when new sources of power are constructed.

This report responds to an August 2014 request to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) from Representative Lamar Smith, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for an analysis of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed Clean Power Plan under which states would be required to develop plans to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rates from existing fossil - fired electricity generating units.1 Appendix A provides a copy of the request letter.

Differences in carbon prices can be attributed to differences in reference scenario emissions, and thus the level of abatement required, along with differences in the cost of abatement technologies.

Donna Spangler, a spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Quality, stressed that when the state first ordered emission cuts, it required technology that was the most reasonable at the time.

They add: «Direct air capture could become a major industry if the technology matures and prices drop dramatically... Direct air capture might require much less land [than other negative emissions techniques], but entail much higher costs and consumption of a large fraction of global energy production.

Environmental groups and national park advocates had hoped the plan would require Rocky Mountain Power to retrofit two of its biggest Utah plants with the best technology available today for capturing nitrogen oxide emissions.

Reality is that the technology required to maintain the economic status of the developed countries and to maintain economic development in the developing countries, while reducing CO2 emissions to zero, is not broadly and economically available.

(Sec. 115) Amends the CAA to require the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations providing for the distribution of emission allowances (established by this Act) that are allocated to support the commercial deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technologies in electric power generation and industrial operations.

Requires the President to establish an interagency group to administer the program to provide developing countries with assistance from the United States to encourage widespread deployment of technologies that reduce GHG emissions and to encourage developing countries to adopt policies and measures that will reduce GHG emissions.

Requires regulations issued applicable to emission of GHGs from new heavy - duty motor vehicles or engines to contain standards that reflect the greatest degree of emissions reduction achievable through the application of technology that is available, giving consideration to cost, energy, and safety factors associated with the application of such technology.

The following figures, from the International Council on Clean Transportation1, summarize the major technologies required to meet each stage of Euro emission limits.

Requires the EPA Administrator to offer to enter into a contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to report to Congress and the EPA Administrator by July 1, 2014, and every four years thereafter on: (1) the latest climate change science; and (2) an analysis of technologies to achieve reductions in GHG emissions.

Subtitle E: Smart Grid Advancement -(Sec. 142) Requires the Secretary and the EPA Administrator to: (1) assess the potential for cost - effective integration of Smart Grid technologies and capabilities in all products that are reviewed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the EPA for potential designation as Energy Star products; (2) prepare an analysis of the potential energy savings, GHG emission reductions, and electricity cost savings that could accrue for the products identified in the assessment in certain optimal circumstances; and (3) notify product manufacturers if the incorporation of Smart Grid technology in their products appears to be cost - effective.

(Sec. 340) Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress on an analysis of the effects of different carbon dioxide reduction strategies and technologies on the emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which cause acid rain, particulate matter, ground level ozone, mercury contamination, and other environmental problems.

The $ 30 million overhaul was made without installing, as required under the New Source Review requirements of the Clean Air Act, the best available technology to minimize emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides — pollutants that harm human health by contributing to heart attacks, breathing problems, and other health problems, the suit alleges.

• Enhanced development of infrastructures that are required to implement technologies that reduce CO2 emissions.

Once the nation commits to a rapid timetable for requiring CCS systems at all new coal plants under an emission performance standard, then all of our regulatory and research and development efforts should be focused on implementing CCS technology as effectively as possible.

Technology promotion, just like emissions cuts, requires dividing a pie.

Here's why: Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously meeting the surging demand for energy in developing countries, requires the development and deployment of clean energy technologies on a massive scale.

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

While renewable energy is welcome, Jenkins said the urgency of climate change will require a broader swath of options, from supporting existing nuclear plants to developing new emissions - free technologies.

Wehner and his co-authors of Chapter 2 of the NCA, which looked at the physical basis for our understanding of climate change, considered seven different future scenarios (including four new ones), ranging from the «do nothing» option to a geoengineering option, which would require an as - yet uninvented technology to take CO2 out of the atmosphere on a global scale, to achieve net negative emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.