Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel products»

Q2 «Is the domestic sale of fossil fuel products in oil exporting countries at the cost of production but below international market prices a subsidy for fossil fuels, like the IMF authors assume?»

Bailing out agribusiness — because continuing to put fossil fuel products (toxic waste, melamine, and the like) onto fields and call it «fertilizer» (per today's NYT) is a dead end, and must stop.

ExxonMobil's and Chevron's climate risk reports illuminate the far - reaching risks of these companies» reliance on ever - increasing sales of fossil fuel products.

Defendants promoted, marketed and sold fossil fuel products without disclosing... the climate - altering dangers that they knew — and have long known — were associated with their use.

In this system, a fee is attached to fossil fuel products based on their associated carbon emissions, and 100 percent of the revenue is returned to the citizens.

Wary of how public concern over climate change could drop demand for fossil fuel products, the Kochs have spent the last 15 years dumping over $ 61 million to front groups telling us that global warming doesn't exist, or that it would destroy our economy to stop runaway climate change.

I think they know they are losing many parts of the war against using fossil fuels for energy,» so now they are cranking up the war against vital fossil fuel products that enhance and safeguard lives.

As retired NASA - JSC engineer Alex Pope explains, «fossil fuels and fossil fuel products have made life better for billions of people on this Earth....

Their lawsuits accuse the companies of having known, for nearly five decades, «that greenhouse gas pollution from their fossil fuel products had a significant impact on the Earth's climate and sea levels.»

A 2014 IMF report (covering over 150 countries) provides estimates for taxes on fossil fuel products to reflect pollution and other environmental impacts associated with energy use, while underscoring the large environmental, health, and fiscal benefits from tax reform and the critical role of finance ministries in administration and ensuring efficient use of revenues.

«Upstream» in this instance refers to infrastructure of oil extraction and production (e.g., Arctic oil and gas extraction), «midstream» refers to transportation (e.g., the Trans - Alaska Pipeline System, railways, oil tankers, and barges), and «downstream» refers to refining, processing, and distributing fossil fuel products to consumers.

Still, GE downplays the threat to its bulked up fossil fuel product line.

Basically, his «small part of a larger picture» work doesn't aid lawsuit defendants to say their fossil fuel product isn't responsible for increased CO2 emissions that cause bad outcomes.

Not exact matches

Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

At the workshop, scientists and lawyers had discussed copying a strategy against the fossil fuel industry that had been used to great effect against Big Tobacco — namely trying to prove that it had covered up knowledge that its products were harmful.

For a manufacturer of plastic, the signature product of the fossil - fuel era, this sounds near suicidal.

In Alberta and B.C., GST is applied on top of the carbon tax on direct consumer fossil - fuel purchases, such as gasoline, as well as on products where a business has added some or all of the cost of the carbon tax to the cost of their good or service.

In addition to carbon dioxide there are other disruptive products from the use of fossil fuels such as the nitrogen oxides that have already been referred to.

The results from the case studies show that flexible packaging has more preferable environmental attributes for carbon impact, fossil fuel usage, water usage, product - to - package ratio, as well as material to landfill, when compared to other package formats.

If fossil fuels and global warming are among your concerns, consider seeking a chocolate product that was grown and processed nearby.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

Climate change: the fossil fuels we consume in our value chain process to operate our facilities, manufacture our products, and transport them to our customers, creates greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

Consumer products companies interested in increasing the sustainability of their beverages and using less fossil fuel for shipping will want to consider adding this powder - filled beverage option.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

«These bags, they're made of petroleum products, fossil fuel, so that's bad for climate change,» he said on NY1's Road to City Hall.

He leads a team at Monash University in Melbourne that is developing technologies to extract fossil fuels more cleanly, turn waste products into fertiliser and cement, and store carbon dioxide deep underground.

Other companies such as Samsung and Siemens already offer products to back up grid power, but they are still expensive compared with fossil - fuel storage, and provide cover only for short periods.

Biofuels and other biomass - derived products have become viable options for replacing fossil fuels.

And there is no reason to think that the R. eutropha could not be made to generate other products — perhaps complex hydrocarbon molecules like those found in fossil fuels or even the whole range of chemicals currently synthesized from polluting resources, such as fertilizers.

Succinic acid is a colorless, crystalline compound used in lacquers, dyes and perfumes and as an ingredient in many consumer products, such as packaging, which might otherwise be produced with fossil fuels, and medicines.

And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.

VOCs come out of tailpipes and smokestacks as a by - product of burning fossil fuels; the trees emit them in part to repel insects and to attract pollinators.

The chemical industry is interested in moving away from fossil fuels to bio-based products to reduce environmental impacts and to meet new regulations for sustainability, said Yong Wang, Voiland Distinguished Professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering.

There's no question that the main thrust all over the planet has been in [the direction] of a kind a homogenization and that homogenization is the product of reliance on fossil fuel more than anything else.

It is stupid to use irreplaceable fossil fuels to produce food with the by - product of carbon dioxide pollution, when we can do the same using energy from sunlight and actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Its combination with oxygen in the atmosphere produces energy and water as its sole by - product, making it one of the main candidates to substitute fossil fuels as a source of energy for the transport sector.

With the prices of natural gas and oil dropping, renewable fuels can't compete with fossil fuels, so biorefineries are exploring options for developing other economically viable products.

«(B) the term «nonemissive use» means the use of fossil fuel as a feedstock in an industrial or manufacturing process to the extent that greenhouse gases are not emitted from such process, and to the extent that the products of such process are not intended for use as, or to be contained in, a fuel; and

It can be used to convert CO2, or carbon dioxide, into useful items like biodegradable plastic products, medications, or fuel sources; as such, this would essentially eliminate the need of having to travel to various locations to dig up fossil fuels, like oil or coal.

GHGI of 1 is equivalent to fossil - fuel products.

Coral is already threatened by insidious change in sea water chemistry as ever more carbonic acid — from dissolved atmospheric carbon dioxide, the product of the combustion of fossil fuels — gets into the sea.

published report, Hayward stated that holding the US back from fulfilling it's petroleum - based product requirements is «a reluctance to develop the nation's massive natural resources under the mistaken belief in the unproven science that claims carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning of fossil fuels is the major cause of recent and future warming of the Earth.

Breathing fumes from combustion of petrol and other fossil fuels (cadmium oxide is one of the main by - products of combustion).

Keanu Reeves (A Walk in the Clouds, Speed) stars as Eddie Kasalivich, a machinist working on an experiment to rid the world of petroleum products and introduce hydrogen - based power into the world through an ever abundant and clean «fossil fuel» known as water.

Including Market Pull Technology push, product analysis, Globalisation, Consumer rights Also includes a full lesson on Fossil fuels Full lesson on Renewable energy Full lesson on Smart Materials Also included is a guide to creating systems diagrams and a sample of the Genie Microcontroller How 2 More resources to be added soon

We explain the origin of fossil fuels, a by - product of earth's long - term «metabolism,» and how our burning of fossil fuels is leading to changes in our climate.

Many net - nets are in the process of developing highly technological products or pharmaceuticals, or they may be searching for rare minerals or fossil fuels.

AGW denialism has been manufactured by a generation - long campaign of deliberate deceit, funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and other fossil fuel corporations that collectively rake in one billion dollars per day in profit from the ongoing business - as - usual consumption of their destructive products.

Nobody says that silicon donor acceptor solar energy conversion and the factories that produce it is free of fossil fuels, but they certainly do minimize its use, while producing products that further minimize its use.

Judge William Alsup had requested this tutorial to bring him up to speed on the fundamental science before proceedings begin in earnest in a case brought by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, on behalf of the people of California, against a group of major fossil fuel companies, addressing the costs of climate change caused, they argue, by products those companies have sold.