Sentences with phrase «for waste gas»

Compared with Indian representatives, Chinese diplomats have shown greater willingness at international meetings to consider altering the subsidy for waste gas credits, said Stephen O. Andersen, a former United States Environmental Protection Agency official who is now with the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in Washington.

And last November, it announced that in contract renewals, factories could claim credits for waste gas equivalent only to 1 percent of their coolant production, down from 3 percent.

Not exact matches

Oil and gas company Citation Resources is seeking to diversify its business by acquiring an initial 40 per cent interest in an unlisted firm that converts rubber waste into clean fuels, for a cash and share package worth about $ 7 million.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

For the most part, the only direct costs extracted from drivers for participating in congestion are the personal time and gas they waste sitting in traffFor the most part, the only direct costs extracted from drivers for participating in congestion are the personal time and gas they waste sitting in trafffor participating in congestion are the personal time and gas they waste sitting in traffic.

In 2014, Unilever issued a «green bond,» offering clarity and transparency around the use of proceeds, including a set of clearly defined criteria on greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste disposal for the projects funded.

Airport's sustainability progress report signals good news for EVs, renewables and plastic waste, but questions remain over tackling greenhouse gases from aircraft

As for the preacher I think his wasting his time God is at fault for the high gas prices nor the solution.

But this transition should not be burdensome; by establishing production metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing efficiencies and potential cost savings for your company to support your bottom line.

We are now working toward achieving by 2020 new goals for reducing solid waste, water use, greenhouse gas emissions, nonrenewable energy use and packaging.

Food loss and waste also contributes to climate change, accounting for about 8 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse gases created by the food system — including production, distribution, and waste — are responsible for one - third of global emissions.

Anaerobic technology is particularly applicable to countries suffering drought, where treated waste water not only provides green energy to substitute for fossil fuels emitting climate change gases, but also processes waste streams to high recycling standards.

Food waste is also responsible for adding 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases into the planet's atmosphere per year.

In 1981 SATTLER invented the double membrane gas holder for storing digester gas from waste water treatment plants.

Food waste today is responsible for around 8pc of global greenhouse gas emissions — if it were a country, food waste would be the world's third - largest emitter, after China and the USA.

As you see, food waste is the largest waste stream going to landfills in the US, accounting for 21 percent of the American waste stream and contributing to climate change as food waste in landfills decomposes and generates methane, a very powerful greenhouse gas.

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

This calculator also describes the environmental impacts of food recovery, including an estimate for the impact on greenhouse gas emissions from reducing food waste.

With online shopping in our store, you don't need to drive, waste gas and waste time to fall in line to wait for your turn in the cashier!

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Also, food waste accounts for about 8 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the WFO said.

At the very least, Reinhardt hopes the planners will consider biogas, fuel material from food waste and wastewater treatment plants, for combustion instead of the natural gas.

The most direct method to make energy consumption more sustainable is for a user to generate its own power by, for example, installing solar panels or by burning waste gas.

The physical connection between mother and fetus is provided by the placenta, an organ, built of cells from both the mother and fetus, which serves as a conduit for the exchange of nutrients, gasses, and wastes.

For more than 50 years, Chevron had vented toxic gases as a way to discharge waste and relieve pressure.

«It's a big problem because not only do you waste energy, but you produce CO2,» says Su Ha, a Washington State University associate professor of chemical engineering and director of the O.H. Reaugh Laboratory for Oil and Gas Research.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

According to Appel, waste goes in one end and comes out the other as three products, all valuable and environmentally benign: high - quality oil, clean - burning gas, and purified minerals that can be used as fuels, fertilizers, or specialty chemicals for manufacturing.

«People are busy, and when you gasp at your energy bill or at the gas pump you don't know what part of that bill is paying for something you want — like heating, cooling and transportation — and what part of it is just wasted,» Dietz says.

The EPA has the authority to issue permits for such discharges, but current rules allow shale gas drillers to pass their waste through public sewage plants even if those plants are not equipped to remove pollutants.

In the report released today, the EPA said that pollution from 33 abandoned oil and gas waste pits 2013 which are the subject of a separate cleanup program 2013 are indeed responsible for some degree of shallow groundwater pollution in the area.

A Government Accountability Office report says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from oil and gas drilling

Methane emissions account for 11 percent of the country's overall greenhouse gas emissions; both manure and food waste are significant contributors.

This reaction is the enzymatic version of a second significant chemical process — Fischer - Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons which can be used on a large scale to synthesize fuels from industrial waste gases, for instance.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

For example, yard waste in Florida in December will likely break down a lot quicker in landfills and create more methane gas than the same amount of yard waste in Minnesota during the same month.

Thus, in addition to the so - called «Haber - Bosch process of nitrogen fixation,» nitrogenase also stimulates a reaction corresponding to the «Fischer - Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons,» which can be used on a large scale to synthesize fuels, for instance from industrial waste gases..

Its «Football for the Planet» program aims to monitor greenhouse gasses, provide environmentally friendly stadiums, and better waste management.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

«Studying argon gas trapped in two - dimensional array of tiny «cages»: Understanding how individual atoms enter and exit the nanoporous frameworks could help scientists design new materials for gas separation and nuclear waste remediation.»

Thierry Dujardin, an official with the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris, told Science for a 27 February 2009 article that fast reactors could help reduce nuclear waste and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

But Wara discovered that offset sales from destruction of the gas were far more lucrative than the sale of the refrigerant responsible for creating the pollutant in the first place, giving factories a perverse incentive to produce as much waste as possible and then create projects that sell offsets to destroy it.

The toilets that Stephanie Lansing, an assistant professor of ecological engineering at the University of Maryland, is working on building in Haiti are connected to «biodigester» tanks where bacteria turn the waste into biogas that can be used similarly to natural gas and burned for fuel.

During Tuesday's hearing, for instance, Zinke told Sen. John Barrasso he would support the Wyoming Republican's effort to scrap a recently finalized BLM rule to limit methane waste from oil and gas drilling.

The study's authors write that halving the amount of food waste and managing demand for particularly environmentally - damaging food products by changing global diets should be key aims that, if achieved, might mitigate some of the greenhouse gases causing climate change.

What scientists call naturally occurring radioactive materials — known by the acronym NORM — are common in oil and gas drilling waste, and especially in brine, the dirty water that has been soaking in the shale for centuries.

Most wells are around the Great Lakes and in areas where oil and gas is produced: along the Appalachian crest and the Gulf Coast, in California and in Texas, which has more wells for hazardous industrial waste and oil and gas waste than any other state.

A third of food is wasted, making it third - biggest carbon emitter, UN says ROME, Sept 11 (Reuters)-- The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday... http://www.pointcarbon.com/news/reutersnews/1.2564792

State oil and gas regulators pushed back against the regulations, too, saying that enforcing the rules for Class 2 wells — which handle the vast majority of injected waste by volume — would be expensive and difficult.