Sentences with phrase «emit huge amounts of carbon»

Industry continues year after year not only to emit huge amounts of carbon pollution, but also to resist common - sense solutions.

Washingtonians are doing their part as individuals to keep this state clean, but industries that emit huge amounts of carbon pollution are able to do it without paying a price.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

Most importantly, deforestation emits huge amounts of carbon stored in the trees and surrounding peat, while taking out the very mechanisms that help remove carbon from the planet: trees.

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Population size has a huge bearing on the amount of resources consumed, as well as the amount of byproducts (ie: carbon, waste, etc) emitted.

But to capture from the air the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by, say, a 1,000 - megawatt coal power plant, it would require air - sucking machinery about 30 feet in height and 18 miles in length, according to a study by the American Physical Society, as well as huge collection facilities and a network of equipment to transport and store the waste underground.

We also must remove from the atmosphere huge amounts of carbon dioxide that have already been emitted (see «Paris Climate Agreement Rests on Shaky Technological Foundations»).