Sentences with phrase «environmental efficiency in»

Halkos, George and Tzeremes, Nickolaos (2012): Regional economic growth and environmental efficiency in greenhouse emissions: A conditional directional distance function approach.

Measuring the effect of Kyoto protocol agreement on countries» environmental efficiency in CO2 emissions: an application of conditional full frontiers, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 41 (3), 367 - 382.

The Working Families Party - endorsed candidate vowed to work for increased environmental efficiency in state office buildings and to prevent Wal - Mart from setting up shop in New York City.

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The 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's decision in April to declare U.S. vehicle emissions and fuel efficiency rules through 2025 «not appropriate.»

We should also recognise that, in an era of high resource prices, better operating efficiency, improved resource management and products with a more sustainable environmental footprint make commercial and social sense.

Our investments in new technologies, central repair facilities, and advanced training programs have created industry - leading practices and capabilities, allowing customers to maximize efficiencies and minimize the environmental impact of their operations.

Transparency, food security, and environmental efficiency are all in focus for the company's clean meat products.

About CECEP CECEP, established by the Chinese Government for the promotion of energy efficiency, is the largest technology - based and service - oriented industrial group in the energy saving and environmental protection field in China.

LEED certification Our Toronto home at 121 King St. West was evaluated on sustainability, water efficiency, indoor environmental quality and innovations in operations, achieving LEED Gold Status.

Among the environmental and sustainable practices at Saranac is the use of geothermal heating and cooling in the warehouse and upgrading the electrical systems and the lighting in the facility for greater efficiency.

Freeze - Dry Foods was doing well in 2009, but it wanted to improve its environmental footprint and efficiency.

Colley concluded, «The CPA, its sponsors and member companies recognize the importance of balancing good environmental science with creating efficiencies in the produce supply chain.

CMC Cartonpack, winner in our «Sustainable Machinery Innovations» category, is a fine example of the way smart production technologies can combine serving the customised needs of the multichannel marketplace at optimised environmental efficiency more

CMC Cartonpack, winner in our «Sustainable Machinery Innovations» category, is a fine example of the way smart production technologies can combine serving the customised needs of the multichannel marketplace at optimised environmental efficiency

Intel has reduced overall package size and enhanced cube efficiency for its line of processors by replacing all PVC inserts with thermoformed APET and corrugated fiberboard in a reduced package size for a substantial improvement in environmental impact for this high - volume product line.

Released to the public in June 2017, the latest corrugated industry life cycle assessment (LCA) confirms continued environmental progress through increased efficiencies in mill energy systems, increased use of low - impact fossil fuels, and increased recovery for recycling.

To help meet these environmental goals across the company, we invest in our facilities and establish specific metrics to improve the efficiency of our operations.

Built by San Francisco - based DPR Construction and designed by ZGF Architects, based in Portland, Ore., Clif Bar's headquarters was completed in 2010 and has earned LEED Platinum by achieving high performance in energy efficiency, materials selection, sustainable site development, water savings and indoor environmental quality.

To help the industry identify further improvements to environmental sustainability and efficiency, TWE also partners in a number of research and development projects with institutes such as University California Davis (United States), University of Adelaide (Australia), and The Australian Wine Research Institute.

We are dedicated to minimizing our total environmental footprint through significant investments in energy efficiency at our facilities and by using clean renewable energy sources on site.

«For us, FE is the ultimate competitive environment for driving forward the development of high performance vehicles in areas such as environmental friendliness, efficiency and sustainability.»

As the Massachusetts Gaming Commission initiates its oversight of the gaming industry in the Commonwealth, Mass Audubon has encouraged them to consider the environmental impacts of such development and to require the employment of sustainable development and energy conservation and efficiency techniques.

In a bid to avoid criticism, Ms Cooper stressed the environmental benefits of Hips and EPCs, which require all homes to be assessed according to their energy efficiency.

The legislation, which aims to tackle barriers to investment in energy efficiency, as well as enhance energy security and enable investment in low carbon energy supplies, has attracted criticism from some environmental groups.

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

World - first technology in the mining industry is contributing to better health and safety for miners, production efficiencies and improved energy consumption and environmental benefits, according to new research.

Updating theses forms will improve the quality of information provided to the lead agency, include more useful information based on existing practices, and help to consolidate information gathering that the Department expects may lead to greater efficiencies in the environmental review process.

Interns will assist with conducting community outreach related to solar, energy efficiency, and geothermal energy and support community members in becoming energy and environmental stewards.

The state Spending and Government Efficiency Commission is considering placing the Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, located in the Catskills and managed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, under the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which runs the Adirondack resorts Whiteface and Gore and other facilities in and around Lake Placid.

«I'm a plant scientist in Dr. Patel's lab at Big State University, with significant research experience in improving efficiency of various cropping systems under a range of environmental conditions, as well as working with parent lines development and hybrid seed production.

The Chinese government hopes to avoid an auto - driven environmental apocalypse both by mandating increasing fuel efficiency but also by pushing these domestic vehicle manufacturers for homegrown hybrid, electric and fuel - cell vehicles under its «863» program — deriving its name from its launch back in March 1986.

Greening the Recovery identifies innovation, infrastructure and information as the key areas in which policies are needed to support a green economy, in addition to arguing for environmental fiscal reform and specific policies at UK and EU level to support resource efficiency.

This decision is not only based on a current surplus in the country's energy supply, but also on concerns over lack of efficiency in large reservoirs and the environmental impacts of these projects, themes which are central to the study.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Transportation (DoT) released rules that set limits on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions allowed and accelerate an increase in overall fuel efficiency to 14.5 kilometers per liter (34.1 miles per gallon) by 2016.

«Our study shows that Schizochytrium is a high quality candidate for complete substitution of fish oil in juvenile Nile tilapia feeds, providing an innovative means to formulate and optimize the composition of feed while simultaneously raising feed efficiency of tilapia aquaculture,» says Sarker, a research assistant professor in Dartmouth's Environmental Studies Program.

Pursuing sustainable irrigation without significant irrigation efficiency gains could negatively impact environmental and development goals in many areas of the world, a new study has found.

He stresses that energy efficiency and greater production of electricity from renewables is the key to reducing the environmental impact of electric cars in the operational phase, globally.

Driving the industry, investors say, are consumer interest in the environmental and economic benefits of energy efficiency, corporate sustainability mandates and essentially a bet that at some point there will be a price on carbon emissions.

According to the researchers, who report their findings in a recent issue of Management Science, business support organizations offer recommendations and programs, including energy audits and pollution prevention education, on how to improve efficiency and increase environmental compliance.

This is one of the conclusions of a doctoral thesis presented recently by Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) researcher Maria Violeta Vargas, in which she analyses the efficiency of domestic rainwater harvesting systems (RWH), quantifying their economic and environmenEnvironmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) researcher Maria Violeta Vargas, in which she analyses the efficiency of domestic rainwater harvesting systems (RWH), quantifying their economic and environmentalenvironmental benefits.

In order to study the different configurations of RWH, the following methodologies were used: exergy analysis and exergetic efficiency analysis to determine resource consumption and efficiency; life cycle assessment (LCA) to identify environmental impacts; life cycle costing (LCC) to find economic feasibility, and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to identify the frontiers of best - practice towards sustainability.

-- Energy technologies that exist or are under development could greatly increase energy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental values.

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products, namely ethanol and ethylene, at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy on Friday finalized a determination that the landmark fuel efficiency rules instituted by President Barack Obama should be locked in through 2025, a bid to maintain a key part of his administration's climate legacy.

To increase the efficiency of the sustainability data management process and improve the accuracy of the data, we started using Enablon, a global provider of environmental, health, and safety (EHS), and operational risk management software, which was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2016.

«It is widely considered that such «Artificial Photosynthesis» processes need to achieve an energy conversion efficiency exceeding 10 % to have practical impact,» MacFarlane and colleagues reported in their study, which was published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science on Aug. 11.

The two organizations teamed up after Meltem Urgun Demirtas, an Argonne principal investigator and environmental engineer, presented a paper on the project at the Bioenergy Conference held by the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office in Washington, D.C., in June 2015.

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a facility aimed at learning the chemical kinetic processes in coal and biomass gasification to improve thermodynamic efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of the... Read more →

Chinese and IRRI partners are studying changes in rice yield and nitrogen - and water - use efficiencies, as well as the environmental effects of different water - use practices.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.