Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel allowance»

For the largest investor - and state - owned producers allowable extraction varies dependent on the approach to calculate burnable fossil fuel allowance.

Not exact matches

Whether it's physical shipments of the fossil fuel or the buying and selling of the permits for the pollution that burning it causes — Evolution's first trade was a sulfur dioxide allowance between Enron and Dynegy in February of 2000 — the brokerage makes its living on coal.

-- For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commerce.

Combined with fair subsidies to renewables equal to the trillions of dollars in depletion allowances to the fossil fuel industries, or their fair elimination, the playing field becomes level.

Operators of fossil fuel plants with at least 25 megawatts in capacity hold «carbon allowances» for every ton of CO2 emissions their plants give off.

The allowance giveaways in the climate bill reflect the power of the fossil fuel lobby.

The cost / benefit analysis of actions taken to limit CO2 levels depends on the discount rate used and allowances made, if any, for the positive future positive economic effects of CO2 production on agriculture and of fossil fuel based energy production.

This could be done with a simple upstream cap - and - trade system in which all of the needed allowances are sold (auctioned)-- not given freely — to fossil - fuel producers and importers, and a very large share — say 75 % — of the revenue is rebated directly to American households through monthly checks in a progressive scheme through which all individuals receive identical payments.

Keep it simple and impose the tax or the tradable allowance system at the level of fossil fuel extraction and import.

Whether carbon is taxed or subject to a cap - and - trade regime, the best place to impose the tax or allowance system is at the point of fossil fuel extraction and import.

Generators would be required to use the allowances to purchase fossil fuels.

«This environmental injustice derives from federal allowance of extreme extraction projects which divert the U.S. from our climate change goals, disrupting a remotely pristine ecosystem and culture, all while continuing our dependence of fossil fuels.

* Give all delivered megawatt - hours an equal allowance of incremental fossil fuel, regardless of age of plant, technology or ownership.

This is especially true of the fossil fuel industry, whose subsidies include such things as a depletion allowance for oil pumping in the United States.