Sentences with phrase «emissions with emissions»

This lets us compare gasoline emissions with emissions from the electricity grid, even when the chemical nature of the air pollution is different.

Not exact matches

Working in collaboration with Workhorse Group, the goal of the fleet is to run with zero emissions.

Most of it will come from mines in Wyoming and Montana that find themselves without domestic customers since the shale gas revolution, combined with emissions control regulation, drove utilities in the U.S. to shut down coal - fired plants and fire up cleaner - burning natural gas plants.

CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas industry is being welcomed by environmentalists and, with some reservations, by industry players, as a key step in fighting climate change.

As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.

In World Bank fashion, he set out targets for 2020, 2030 and 2040, with an ultimate goal of an 80 percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050.

For example, the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach in southern California in July approved a plan to replace their current fleets of mostly diesel trucks with zero - or near zero - emissions vehicles by 2030.

With the scope and reach of a political platform, the company publicly declared goals for itself on practically every major social issue it touches, from local sourcing and carbon emissions to ethical recruiting and the treatment of workers in its suppliers» factories.

She announced interim measures that include assessing a pipeline's impact on greenhouse gas emissions and «more meaningful consultation» with aboriginals.

It's no surprise that bicycles — with no tailpipe emissions — are a key part of this plan.

To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

Authorities will look to trial energy saving devices with the hope of cutting emissions in shipping.

The EPA with cooperation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and California Air Resources Board established in 2010 a single national program of greenhouse gas emissions standards for model year 2012 - 2025 vehicles.

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.

Volkswagen has set aside 6.7 billion euros ($ 7.3 billion) to make its cars comply with emissions rules — but the sum doesn't begin to take into account the fines, compensation, restitution, and attorneys» fees the company will eventually have to fork over.

But there were hints that the German auto industry, if not VW in particular, was uncomfortable with the U.S. emissions rules.

And with many questioning the sustainability of importing so much food from so far away, we are beginning to ask if switching to a vegetarian diet to cut emissions caused by meat production is as sustainable as one might think.

The second was President Obama's joint commitment for carbon - emissions cuts with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2014.

The document remains confidential, but CARB has stated that in it «VW admitted... that it designed and manufactured its 2.0 - liter diesel vehicles with defeat devices to bypass, defeat, or render inoperative elements of the vehicles» emission - control system.»

In collaboration with CARB, the ICCT contracted with a group of engineers at West Virginia University to compare the NOx emissions of three U.S. diesel cars in and out of the lab.

«But I believe nuclear power is a key technology with environmental considerations; there's no carbon dioxide emissions and [a nuclear reactor's plant] might last for 60 to 100 years.»

The company, based in Fullerton, California, retrofits large diesel - powered vehicles such as garbage trucks and off - road construction equipment with a system that cuts smog - causing emissions by as much as 90 percent.

The company claims its service conserves one gallon of fuel per idling hour per truck, and with more than one million truckers on the road at any given time, the savings add up — so far, says Wilson, eight million gallons of fuel have been saved, 83,000 metric tons of emissions have been eliminated, and 150,000 road cowboys have plugged in.

These include poisonous methane emissions from cows that accelerate climate change and higher health care costs associated with unhealthy diets, which are ultimately paid for by society.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

The phase - out plans apply only to so - called unabated coal, meaning a company that has the technology to reduce emissions can carry on generating power with coal.

But as demonstrated by the massive die - offs at the largest reef system in the planet, these sorts of efforts won't be enough to save the world's reefs without dealing with the larger carbon emissions problem.

Those interests align with Beyond Meat's mission: to create a plant - based product that looks, tastes, and behaves just like meat but has a much lower environmental impact because it takes livestock — one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions — out of the equation.

In 2010, for example, he worked with Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on a climate change bill that would have reined in carbon emissions by businesses.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

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.

With more cars on the road, energy consumption and C02 emissions will drive demand for even more efficiencies and change how cars are made.

The pope repeated the strong call for environmental stewardship that he had made with his latest encyclical, Laudato Si, and Xi Jinping announced that China will launch a cap - and - trade system for carbon emissions in 2017.

Though large distributors use complex and expensive software for this purpose, we aim to empower smaller businesses to cut emissions, reduce costs, and control their logistics with precision.

In 2012, forecasts for 2020 global emissions were revised down from 2008 forecasts for the same period, based on actual energy efficiencies realized between 2008 and 2012, along with updated data.

Despite the Trump administration's efforts to do away with the Obama - era Clean Power Plan, Dominion says it expects power stations» emissions of carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, are still virtually certain be regulated.

With the exception of implicit prices on carbon on some emissions in Sweden, Japan, and Germany (see this recent OECD report for details), no carbon pricing policy in place today comes close to that type of stringency.

Also, a widespread problem in industry with waste — of time, inventory, labor, and emissions — provides a great deal of work for consulting companies in China, Ding says.

Western Australian business has not warmed to the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme, with warnings that the policy could drive billions of dollars of investment offshore.

A program dealing with San Francisco Bay that received $ 4.8 million last year would be eliminated, as would initiatives for reducing diesel emissions and beach water quality testing.

Pretty well every economist you talk to will agree: If you want to reduce pollution, carbon or otherwise, the most cost - effective way to do so is with a price on the emissions of that which you seek to reduce.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 was 0.13 percent lower with the auto sector the biggest faller amid an emissions cheating scandal.

Further analysis found that the emissions associated with the natural gas production to feed the project would add a further five to nine million tonnes per year to Canada's emissions inventory.

LNG projects would also be subject to new greenhouse gas emission standards and would have to pay general industrial electricity rates consistent with other industrial users in B.C., but the framework would repeal an LNG income tax introduced under the B.C. Liberals.

OSLO, Oct 7 - Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don't fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher - emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed.

And 14 % were committed to aligning their goals with climate science, which requires deep cuts in emissions to achieve Paris agreement goals, up from 9 % last year.

The automaker admits that, since 2009, it outfitted several of its diesel - powered models — such as the Golf, Passat, Jetta, and Beetle — with «defeat devices» that would switch off emissions controls, and thereby boost performance, except when the vehicles were being put through environmental tests.

Not only does driving a truck with outdated equipment put the driver and surrounding motorists at risk, the truck's emissions cause a range of serious illnesses, lung cancer, and even death.

The compromise plan, which will cut emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared with 2008 levels, fell short of more ambitious targets, they added.

Now, the automaker is pushing the envelope again, with the first mass - produced fuel - cell vehicle, a zero - emissions car called the Mirai.