I am all for making fossil fuels cleaner, and much work has already been done to make various fossil fuel devices (coal - fired power stations, internal combustion engines, etc)
emit less pollution like NOx, SOx, Hg, Pb, and particulates.
Versions of the energy bill passed by the House and Senate each include a pilot program to subsidize switching to buses that
emit less pollution.
Modern diesel cars
emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says a new six - nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.
1) The obvious thing that smaller population uses less resources and
emits less pollution as a global average.
It is better for your wallet, it is better for the nations energy budget, it is lighter and wears less on the roads, it requires less parking space,
emits less pollution, which again creates less health problems.
Not exact matches
Cars can be powered by electricity and thus
emit far
less pollution, but the production of this electricity is almost always polluting or otherwise environmentally destructive.
By putting a price on each ton of
pollution emitted, the market sends a strong signal to innovate to achieve emission reductions through methods that cost
less than the cost of
emitting the
pollution.
«For every ton of CO2
emitted [into] the atmosphere, the natural sinks are removing
less carbon than before,» says biologist Josep «Pep» Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project — an Australia — based research consortium devoted to analyzing the
pollution behind global warming.
Earlier this year at a testing laboratory recognised by the US Environmental Protection Agency, a car fitted with the system
emitted significantly
less pollution than the standards the US intends to impose in 2004.
The models suggested that levels of air
pollution would fall without the government having to do much as older diesel vehicles are replaced by newer ones that
emit less nitrogen dioxide.
Engineering and Technology Magazine — African researchers have developed a stove that burns rice husks while
emitting much
less pollution than conventional wood - burning stoves.
Because switching from coal to cleaner and more affordable energy would result in
less coal mined,
less coal burned, and
less carbon
pollution emitted, BLM's decisions do have a climate impact — and a big one at that.
It means far
less harmful carbon
pollution will be
emitted in the coming years.
A ship which is more energy efficient burns
less fuel so
emits less air
pollution.
«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still
emit less global warming
pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.
Shifting the tax burden to
pollution and
pollution - generating activities will create powerful incentives to use
less energy and
emit less CO2 into the atmosphere while simultaneously promoting tax equity and minimizing the impact of the carbon tax on those with lower incomes.