Sentences with phrase «emits less greenhouse gas emissions»

To qualify as «advanced,» EPA has to certify that the fuel emits less greenhouse gas emissions than conventional gasoline.

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New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

The report notes that three business sectors — energy firms, utilities and materials companies — account for 87 percent of scope 1 and 2 emissions, greenhouse gases that are directly emitted by a firm's activities, even though they account for less than 25 percent of all companies on the index.

EPA is not even requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions for sources emitting less than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

Australia and the USA are culpable on two counts, they are producing more greenhouse gasses than any other nations (considering population sizes) and they are doing less about controlling their emissions than any of the other major greenhouse gas emitting nations.

And in fact when you look at the scientific literature, it's an interesting disconnect because the modelers who study emissions and how to control those emissions are generally much more comfortable setting goals in terms of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentrations because that comes more or less directly out of their models and is much more proximate or more closely connected to what humans actually do to screw up the climate in the first place, which is emit these greenhouse gases.

Natural gas generates more than 50 % less greenhouse gas emissions than coal, not even including the many harmful particulate pollutants coal emits.

Modern cookstoves emit less greenhouse gases and also reduce fuel use by 30 - 60 % and black carbon emissions by 50 - 90 %.

But overall, especially with climate, since nearly all of the growth in emissions is going to come in poor countries, if you can't come up with energy choices that are less greenhouse gas emitting and also are cheap, they are just going to keep burning fossil fuels.